Outsourcing QA: A new money saving trend in IT.

PR Log (Press Release) – Nov 12, 2008 – Betawise, an up and coming Texas based business is offering software testing services to small businesses. Betawise has modified the outsourcing model a bit such that their testers are U.S. residents whose rank and rate is determined by professional experience, and number of tests completed.

Dallas, TX, November 10, 2008 --(PR.com)-- A study conducted by NIST reported that software bugs cost the U.S. economy $59.5 billion annually.

More than a third of this cost could be avoided if better software testing was performed.

Betawise specializes in connecting software testers and clients in such a way as to promote growth and quality on both sides of that connection. Clients who sign up w/ this company get software testers to hammer on their products in an effort to improve them. This is not a novel idea, a lot of companies outsource QA so what's so great about Betawise?

If a manager is asking what is the best method of outsourcing my QA they will come to Betawise's site and find that unlike most beta testing businesses that do a "per bug" testing system, Betawise offers a more project driven model similar to managing in house testers. Just because you are outsourcing does not mean you need to change how you do business.

With Betawise, the client is managing the project as they would with fulltime QA staff. The client provides project specs, and testing instructions. The client sets the dates for the testing, and specifies the hours expected to be worked.

The client can use Betawise' website to request status reports from the testers throughout the project. The testers are required to return the specified documentation to the client. Once the test is completed, the client gets to rate, and comment on the tester's performance.

Using the website clients are able to choose how many testers, how many hours each tester will apply to the project, and the rank of the testers. They do this to tailor the project to their budget.

Just as with an employee, the client can fire a tester if their performance is sub par. All of the control is in the hands of the client as it would be with full time employees.

So why not just get fulltime employees? The target business of Betawise is smaller software companies that need to spend sparingly but still wish to deliver a quality product. Big companies that can afford hundreds of thousands of dollars on a QA department need not use Betawise's services. But for the smaller shops that want to produce the same quality of the bigger shops, this just might be the way to go.