Select any of the following four items to see the details on how a tool such as SmartTest can save your company money and improve quality at the same time:

• Reduces test times significantly
• Provides predictable Quality
• Finds defects earlier in the testing cycle
• Gives your company a reputation for releasing quality software

Latest Trends

A recent BusinessWeek magazine article, "Business Software Needs a Revolution", describes how customers are becoming more concerned with software quality and less interested in "Bells and Whistles".  During the technology boom in the late '90s, software development organizations focused largely on features and functionality for their software - not testing and Quality Assurance. 

In response to customers demand for quality, many software testing conferences, seminars, training and books have emerged in the past several years. They all emphasize the need for a structured testing process and the heavy use of automated testing tools. Additionally, most companies who develop software have invested a significant amount of the their development budget on software testing. Testing, like all other expenses have been rising. The following diagram demonstrates the relatively high cost of software testing in the Development Life Cycle for new software.

Source: NASA Manager's Handbook for Software Development