TESTCo Recognized for Significant Improvement in Offshore Software Testing Practices Using Rally Software’s Solution for Agile Quality Management
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RALLY CUSTOMER TESTCO WINS IIST'S "SOFTWARE TESTING BEST PRACTICES" AWARD
TESTCo Recognized for Significant Improvement in Offshore Software Testing Practices Using Rally Software’s Solution for Agile Quality Management
TESTCo, a premier on-demand software testing company, today announced it was awarded the International Institute for Software Testing’s (IIST) “Software Testing Best Practices Award” using Rally Software’s solution for Agile quality management. The award was announced at the International Testing Certification Super Week event held in Las Vegas.
TESTCo’s offshore Agile software testing solutions enable development organizations to deliver a higher volume of new features at far lower cost than the industry norm, without destabilizing the existing code base. Through continuous testing and close collaboration, development teams can continually enhance their multiple applications built on a shared code base while maintaining continuous release readiness in their U.S.-based deployment environments.
“We outsource our entire QA function to TESTCo, which results in an overall cost savings of 30% annually,” said Torsten Weirich, Executive Vice President Product Development for Acorn Systems.
As part of its best practices, TESTCo uses and recommends Rally Quality Manager for test case management, results tracking and traceability to requirements. Rally Quality Manager enables enterprises to pull testing forward and provides teams with a single source of information for software quality throughout the development lifecycle.
“Rally Quality Manager plays a crucial role in our software testing practices,” said Bill Skrapits, TESTCo Quality Assurance Manager. “Our teams are able to stay focused, improve communication and track feature readiness from a single dashboard. Rally’s solution helps us further instill our high standard of continuous quality.”
The five selected winners of IIST’s “Software Testing Best Practices Award” were required to exhibit improvements in areas such as test management, requirement management, and test execution. For more information about the winners, visit www.iist.org.
About TESTCo
Austin-based TESTCo was founded in 2002 by Jeff Hotz as an On-Demand Software Testing firm, specializing in manual and automated testing for carefully selected customers around the world. TESTCo customers eliminate software testing problems, slash support costs by up to 50% and achieve their release date commitments ... all without the risk of hunting down the best offshore vendor, the pain and frustration of learning how to properly manage them and the unpredictable results so common with most offshore vendors. TESTCo's On-Demand Software Testing services guarantee ensures that clients have trained, experienced, and managed test engineers working to meet their release date and quality commitments in less than one business day.
About Rally
Rally is the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) dedicated to making distributed development organizations faster and leaner by dramatically cutting the time, cost and effort needed to deliver high quality applications. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally's Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. Rally’s products were honored with three consecutive Jolt Product Excellence Awards (the software industry’s equivalent of the Oscar® award) in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The company’s end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include Agile University, the largest source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility. As of January 15, 2009, Rally supports 1,500 corporate customers, 33,000 projects and 54,000 users in 50 countries. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.
About IIST
The International Institute for Software Testing (IIST) was founded in 1996 to serve testing and QA professionals. IIST's areas of expertise include: Software Testing, Test Management, Test Automation, Test Design Techniques, Test Process, Testing Web Applications and e-Business, Performance Testing, Software Quality, Quality Management, Software Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing, Software Inspections and Peer Reviews. IIST sponsors the International PSQT Conference.
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Contacts:
Rally Software
GroundFloor Media
Ashley Cohen,
303-522-0783
acohen@groundfloormedia.com
or
TESTCo
Amy
Sarosdy, 512-329-5960
asarosdy@testco.com
