The document emphasizes the importance of defining clear business goals to enhance success in software testing, aligning organizational efforts to achieve these goals and ensuring quality solutions. It discusses the necessity of measuring investments in testing, specifically through ROI calculations, to justify costs and mitigate risks. Additionally, it highlights Mindtree's capabilities in providing tailored test consulting services leveraging their expertise and experience to foster quality and efficiency in the delivery lifecycle.

1. Defining success and quantifying goals.
One of the biggest reasons for failure in software testing, is the lack of attention to
business goals / objectives. Defining clear business goals is essential to succeed. Aligning
your organization to the said goals, makes it easier to chart out the quality dimensions
required to achieve them.
Understanding quality solutions best suited to your needs. To justify your investment you need to:
objectives Our highly qualified, experienced test  Master measurements and ROI
Quality is defined in terms such as professionals are experts in process benefits from a balanced scorecard
reliability, maintainability, scalability, improvements, test automation and ― simultaneously minimizing costs,
usability and conformability. Each test management tools. Our tactical mitigating risks and achieving a
dimension requires a certain level of delivery is assembled around business quicker time to market
investment (testing costs), to satisfy a criticality, resulting in incremental  Decide how much investment in
specific business goal / objective. improvement plans. quality is needed to support your
It is necessary to choose the dimension business goals
of quality and articulate its associated Justify the business  Maximize the return and utilization
value in terms of cost and risk. case through Return On of test automation investments
Investment (ROI)  Justify investments that have
Our solution Your business case should prove been made in the delivery of
Mindtree Test Consulting Group (TCG) that investment in testing has value international standard applications
uses your existing delivery life cycle and is of importance. Value, in most
and methodologies to design a sensible cases, is determined and validated Defining key
cost-effective improvement plan. We by ROI calculations. Investment has quality metrics
also provide complete integrated test value and associated costs – always a Measurement determines whether the
solution recommendations. Quality is major factor in ROI calculation. For a quality of the application or product is
maintained throughout the application more holistic view, the functions of improving or declining. Use Key
delivery life cycle, helping nurture a quality and time should also be taken Performance Indicators (KPIs) to
culture of excellence. We tailor into account. compare results.
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