QA團隊可以確保一係列的IT預算，這可能是艱難的，其中經常通過平坦或縮小資金來檢查迅速增加的預期。但是對軟件開發實踐，用戶需求和失敗風險的重大變化需要更新的QA方法。現在，幾乎每個公司都在客戶麵向客戶的軟件業務中 - 提供質量對商業成功至關重要。
中斷正在推動新的測試要求，但團隊無法持續改進結果，速度和規模，而無需對測試基礎架構的相應變化。人，過程或技術 - 有些東西必須給予。在緊張的勞動力市場中，招聘，培訓和保留一個擴大的人團隊可能是艱難的。優化testing tools和過程提供了競爭優勢和結果的替代路徑。
不幸的是，團隊因許多原因而陷入遺留測試管理工具。測試的業務價值往往明白很差。QA經常被視為一個成本中心，主要提供背麵的福利，而不是成為客戶價值的關鍵推動者。和其他技術功能的現代化工具通常是第一個。如果沒有引人注目的投資回報率，對QA改進的需求很容易將作為一個很好的增強優先考慮......可能是明年。
The cost of high-performance quality assurance may also be underestimated. QA may be seen as secondary to development efforts. It may be expected to conjure better, faster and cheaper results, with either existing legacy tools that don’t align to development methods, or with free add-ons that lack scalability and enterprise-grade features.
QA upgrades may feel less urgent than flashy new releases and fast response patches. Despite radical changes to development environments and customer expectations,obsolete testing tools可能會感到“足夠好”。
The false “savings” of delaying technology upgrades make it tempting to postpone QA system investments. This is why legacy systems often overstay their welcome. Nobody argues that a free add-on or a 10-year-old test management tool will be faster or more effective than a modern, well-integrated system. There’s an imagined savings — perhaps purchase cost, training, or implementation. And when opportunity costs and the fear of mistakes are high, doing nothing may feel safer or easier than upending current processes to move to a new system. Unfortunately, saddling testers with obsolete and inefficient QA tools yields testing that is not effective, fast or efficient. Test management tools on life-support don’t scale, and they can waste time that would be better spent on actual quality testing and delivery.
There are no savings in keeping a waterfall-centric system that is not aligned with agile test cadences, requirements and planning tools. Nor are there savings with an all-of-the-above approach that tries to outrun obsolescence with a patchwork of single-purpose, single-platform test apps. These one-trick ponies may look lean and nimble, but without a way to keep track of them all, they can quickly become an unruly and unmanageable herd.
Short-term cost avoidance leads to a painful, persistent hangover for quality processes and deliverables. Postponing essential, inevitable investment needs just hobbles development — and by extension, the entire business — with excess delay, work and cost.
測試應有效，高效，並與開發保持一致。與開發集成的測試策略使得市場上的時間更快地達到市場，並導致更高的質量。由於需要的替代反映了一個錯誤的假設比開始新鮮更便宜和更容易。許多人更喜歡使用他們當前的工具集的現狀，因為他們認為遷移將是痛苦的，或者它會減慢它們。
But there’s a problem with that logic: The longer they wait, the more obsolete their current toolset becomes, and the further removed QA becomes from the rest of the software development lifecycle — which often means that testing continues to lag behind. And just because a test management tool came with the bundle doesn’t mean it’s the best solution; just because you already own something doesn’t mean it’s free. To strike the right balance, it’s important to recognize where QA delivers value, where it breaks down, and what it needs to succeed.
多年來，它主要將申請提供給寬容的員工用戶。失敗是痛苦的，但他們經常是孤獨的問題，這並沒有影響關鍵數據或客戶。當軟件是客戶體驗的主要來源時，QA是一種保護客戶，品牌和企業策略的關鍵防禦。
有效的測試過程不一定會產生錯誤的軟件，但它確實在開發過程中發現了高風險的錯誤，當他們最容易修複時。集成的工作流程使測試人員能夠評估代碼，這些代碼被編寫，可以減輕風險並使團隊的利益相關者對齊單一項目目標。但遺留測試管理工具缺乏必要的一體化，使這種合作成為現實。
Integrated testing might mean the difference between a successful, on-time launch – or a catch-up release that’s days or even months late. Modern test management tools that integrate with agile planning, test automation and DevOps pipeline tools streamline workflows and simplify collaboration to help teams get better results, faster.
Quality assurance investments enable teams to test smarter, more seamlessly and at scale. These improvements also position testing to be a key enabler of business success, by facilitating critical outcomes such as faster time-to-market, better customer experience and reduced risk.
While there’s a cost for making an investment in testing, the cost of not making one is arguably greater. Deferring the transition to modern tools may offer a quick fix for this year’s budget, but these decisions are not made in a vacuum. How are competitors responding to their testing challenges? Are they making investments across the software delivery pipeline that might put you at a real disadvantage? Are testers prepared to evolve alongside accelerated development methodologies? Over the next 12 to 24 months, will the breadth, complexity or tempo of your development processes increase, decrease or stay the same? Is your current testing infrastructure strong enough to rely on, or might it fail you at a critical moment?
Once you’ve answered these critical questions, it will be easier to assess where your gaps and opportunities lie, and whether you’d be better off transitioning testing to agile processes and tools now, so they’re better prepared to meet future development and business requirements. The right solution exhibits four characteristics: it’s versatile, distributed, scalable and offers organization-wide visibility.
合適的係統展示了四種特性：它是多功能的，分布式，可擴展的，提供組織範圍的可見性。
多功能意味著易於使用，一致，易於與軟件交付管道的工具集成。現代化的測試管理解決方案還分發，分發功能筒倉，跨團隊分配工作負載和賦予測試人員，以協調和有效地提供卓越的結果。它還可以擴展，能夠適應快速擴展的測試套件，因此測試團隊和流程可以保持速度和複雜性增加。最後，現代化的測試管理工具應具有可操作的分析，以簡化報告，並提供有助於您的洞察力，幫助您評估整個質量，並優化隨著時間的推移改進的過程。