Why, Quality Assurance Important
In the today’s world most of the developers has adopt the new software development concepts beyond the traditional. Also most of the IT professional are aware of the importance and value that QA team can bring to a product.
Just few years back there were very few companies who were even having a single QA person for their development. Most of the developers were asking “why we need a QA team?”, or “Is QA important?” These are very common question most of them will ask. There is no wonder still QA as a practice in most companies are undervalued.
Most valuable question is “Can you ensure the quality of a product without quality assurance?” If your company is more concerned about the cost for a project, then it might be a valuable reason to ask your developers to test their own code. Why bother paying a QA team, even you can cut your cost and deliver the product faster. Yes, there are some high end successful companies who worked without a QA team. For such kind of companies do need highly involved teams and some test automation.
By limiting the priority of QA team and putting that in as the last item of your project plan may lead to missing the ways that your application can improve and you may miss more bugs that can be fixed before the production release. Below are few well-known incidents caused because of lack of QA.
● Yahoo-hackers leaked 500 million credentials due to a software security breach.
● History’s worst software bug- a miscalculation in a software of a radiotherapy device caused the radiation dosage to 100x higher than it was intended.
So, How Important a QA team ?
1. QA team helps fulfilling customer demands fullest
No matter how much technology you used for your application user experience can break your product.QA helps to ensure that all the end users are happy and all their needs has been fulfilled.
2. QA teams helps to ready your product for the future run
Having a high quality product bring future business success and the will build the trust within the customers. In the long run customer trust will be more needed for the business. Also by providing sustainability and stable products your company will gain returning customers in the future.
3. QA processes helps to save cost
QA team will reveal defects of your system very early stages of software development cycle and it will bring the early fixes before your product go live or product or even UAT. Bugs are an inevitable part of a software development cycle. Later identification of functionally issues will cause delays and clog development teams schedule and getting loss of resources that you have already planned.
…Having a high quality product bring future business success and the will build the trust within the customers.!
A Good QA team?
A QA team will be doing many different tasks at a time and can be dealing with many different products and people so it is best not choose the best people but very solid, analytical people. Also people with good leadership quality and people who have the hunger to learn new things, those kind of people will be beneficial for your team.
Final thoughts on the role of QA
QA analysts usually hear questions like, “Does Google have a QA team?” The answer is yes! And so should you. Behind each successful and high-quality product, there’s a team of professionals who work on maintaining and improving its quality standard and serving as a sentry against bugs and defects to stop them from getting to users.
