To stay competitive today, organizations must respond to the fast-changing marketplace. They need to make sure their products get to market quickly and free of defects, while managing stringent IT budgets. They also need to conduct rigorous testing to ensure success.

Dell Strategic Test Consulting can help you overcome these challenges by evaluating your test processes and developing a roadmap for improved testing effectiveness and a high return on investment.

As a leading IT software testing service provider, Dell Services helps organizations cut costs and improve operational efficiencies with best-in-class methodologies, tools and frameworks. For over 20 years we have partnered with customers to develop defect-free software products with world-class IT standards.

Get the advantage of expert consultingOur Strategic Test Consulting service begins by evaluating your current application testing practices with value stream mapping, gap analysis and discussions with your team. We then recommend solutions to improve your application testing, design effective testing strategies, reduce testing cycle time and measure test results during your process transformation.

With a dedicated team of highly experienced testing consultants, we can help you align your IT and business needs with an end-to-end test strategy for:

Make your test practice more efficient with our consulting expertise.

Stay competitive with state-of-the-art testing solutions.Strategic Test Consulting

• Cost efficiency through process improvements

• Productivity and operational efficiency improvements through training and guidance

• Reduced risk using our testing expertise

• Significant reduction in test spends• Decreased time-to-market using

optimized test processes• Enhanced service and product quality

Key benefits:

• Highly customized evaluation

• Competent and

experienced consultants

• Pre-built templates, processes

and tools

• Significant time and cost savings

• Extensive coverage of all

business areas

Our Strategic Test Consulting provides:• Assessment of your current

testing state/needs and development of improved processes and tools

• Assistance establishing a test center of excellence

• Effective test automation, performance and security testing solutions

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Strategic Test Consulting

• Identifies the strengths and capabilities of existing testing practices

• Identifies gaps and potential improvement opportunities

• Sets achievable improvement goals

• Provides consistent and accurate results for regression test cycles

• Allows test engineers to focus more on results analysis and prepare for enhancements/ changed functionality

• Delivers continuous improvement of product release quality

• Is the best option for regression testing once the system is functionally stable

• Helps mitigate risks related to business losses

• Optimizes cost related to infrastructure

• Determines areas of weakness or possible exposures in the client application

• Identifies and helps correct vulnerabilities before the application is implemented in production

• Ensures security and compliance of application code

• Supports compliance with industry and government standards

Highly skilled test consultants

Delivers value quickly

Customized evaluation

Pre-built processes & tools

Test Process Transformation Consulting

Performance & Security Test Consulting

Test Automation Consulting

Process Assessment AnalysisThe process assessment tool assesses your current testing practice and recommends an optimized solution tailored for your specific needs.

Benefits: Identifies the strengths/capabilities of existing testing practices | Identifies gaps and potential improvement opportunities | Sets beneficial and achievable improvements goals

• Understand & evaluate current testing practice using

• Discussions & Interviews

• Value stream mapping• Gap analysis

Test practice assessment

• Evaluate competency of testing practice w.r.t:— Testing organization— Testing strategy— Test planning— Test management— Test environments

& tools

Test practice evaluation

• Determine strong & weak points of current test process; and

• Formulating specific & realistic improvement plan in a given area

Tools & methodologies assessment

• Recommend optimized solutions with immediate, mid-term and long-term actions

• Help customers implement recommendations or set up a testing center of excellence

Optimized solution

Dell helped a leading aircraft carrier reduce regression testing cycle time and improve on the quality of their booking engine application with the Test Optimizer tool.

In one particular module, the test case numbers were optimized by 59%!

Dell helped a global information services group validate the output of search engine optimization (SEM) with the Test Optimizer tool.

The testing team conducted end to end functional testing including the validation of the SEM using an optimized set of test cases with positive and negative test cases conditions.

The optimizer tool proved extremely helpful since a large regression test pack needed to be conducted. The tool helped identify the set of test cases that necessarily needed to be xecuted during the regression cycle.

Customers benefit with the Dell Optimizer Tool

The Optimizer tool, a Dell IP and has been developed in house with our expertise and experience. The tool helps achieve an optimized set of test cases by combining all possible combinations of test scenarios with high test coverage.