Selection
What the team actually needs before anyone opens a catalogue: case volume, automation maturity, what is already paid for and unused. Often the answer is to get more out of what you have.
Service 03 · Tooling
Testing tools
Selection, licensing, rollout, and training. So the tool is still in use a year later.
Buying a tool is easy. Having the team still using it a year later is the hard part. This line covers the decision, the rollout and the adoption — and it is a separate business from our testing.
01What it covers
What it covers
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Licensing
Purchase and renewal of licences for QA and automation tooling. We work across a broad range of international vendors rather than defaulting to one, and negotiate price and terms on your behalf.
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Implementation
A real rollout: project structure, integration with your repo and CI, migration of whatever exists, and conventions so two teams do not use it two different ways.
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Training
Training for the team who will operate it, not a demo session. The point is that the tool is still in use after we leave.
02Independence
Where the line sits against our testing
Independent testing and tool sales are two separate lines. In a QA assessment we do not recommend a tool because we sell it, and if a commercial interest ever attaches to a recommendation, we put that in writing before you decide.
03Limits
What we do not do
- Sell licences the team will not use, to fill a budget
- Switch tools when the one already paid for solves the problem
- Claim a platform replaces a tester’s judgement
- Vendor support: that comes from the vendor, and we say so up front
04Related services
Talk about tools
Tell us what you have today, what is paid for, and what is going unused. The recommendation comes out of that.