On-demand, flexible and pay-per-use software testing  using a cloud-based test infrastructure solution

Sogeti has extended its on-demand Software Testing as a Service solution with cloud-enabled provisioning of test environments and test tooling, providing a direct, accessible and comprehensive turn-key testing solution. Using a central service portal, you can select the testing service you require.

The benefits of this improved test service solution are:

• Cost-efficient and effective testing on-demand of your software
• Use of standardized business-driven test processes and test accelerators
  
• No need to arrange separate provision of test tools and/or test environments
• Reduced Capex on test infrastructure
• Simple, direct responsive handling of service requests.
  
  

Cloud-enabled Testing

Cloud computing offers the opportunity to access test tools and test environments from anywhere around the world, without the need to own these assets. Leveraging this facility, Sogeti has expanded its on-demand test services provided through its existing Test Service Centers. 

Improved Software Testing as a Service Menu

Our standard Software Testing as a Service menu has been improved to include access to appropriate test tools and/or test environments. It can be accessed online through our new web portal where you can enter your service request direct.

The new Software Testing as a Service menu includes the following standard test services:

• Set up Master Test Plan
• Set up End-to-end Test Plan
• Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Performance Testing
• Security Testing
• Automated Test Case generation
• Web Accessibility Compliancy Testing (WCAG regulation)
• TPI Next® assessment
• Test Training (Test management, test engineering, test execution)

Non-standard test services are also available. A central Test Service Request Desk handles all requests and provides quotations for test execution on a fixed price/fixed result basis.

Cost-efficient and flexible service delivery

The Cloud-enabled test tools and test environment options are applicable to operational test services (functional, regression, performance, security). With this option we provide a comprehensive, easily accessible, flexible and low-cost service for test execution – on an on-demand service basis. Put simply, you provide the software to be tested together with the appropriate documentation, and Sogeti carries out the defined testing and provides a full quality report.

TMap NEXT® - consistent quality guaranteed

Our test experts use Sogeti’s own TMap NEXT® - the world-leading business-driven, risk-based methodology for structured software testing, which consistently achieves the optimal test results. Together with this standardized and highly-efficient process, TMap NEXT® provides complete transparency of the test progress and its outcomes using standard Service Levels and KPI dashboards.

Who benefits from cloud-enabled Software Testing as a Service?

 Sogeti’s cloud-enabled Software Testing as a Service is particularly suited to organizations that need to set up a test project quickly or execute software testing on a recurring but non-continuous basis.  It can also be used to supplement an existing large program or testing performed by your own operational test teams, with additional on-demand access to specialized or niche forms of testing. Furthermore, our service helps to alleviate the costs and effort needed to maintain test assets and test knowledge for existing applications.

How does cloud-enabled Software Testing as a Service work?

Test experts from the Sogeti test service center undertake the preparation and execution of the service required, involving specialist expertise regarding test technology, applications or domain knowledge where needed, using our standardized work package assignment process.

Multiple execution locations are available, from onsite to offshore; our planning process has been developed to achieve the right quality test results within required time at the most cost efficiently. Sogeti partners with the leading test tool and test infrastructure providers to provide the required infrastructure test technology service, using state of the art cloud-based technology.

A Client example

Sogeti has carried out on-demand performance testing for a transportation organization serving a European central government. This included the use of IBM cloud-enabled provision of performance test tools and a test environment, and the complete service was offered as a single price package. The client did not have to buy any test tool licenses or create a performance test environment to execute this work.

Benefits of this service model

Sogeti’s cloud based Software Testing as a Service offers a fast, efficient and high-quality test ser-vice on-demand, with the key benefits being:

• Easy one-stop access to a comprehensive and structured test service, including tools and environments
• On-demand test service - as a single service or embedded in long term service contract
• Competitive pricing model on a pay-per-use and fixed-price basis
• High quality test services provided by expert test resources using state of the art tools and standardized test process based on TMap NEXT®.
• Cost savings of 15% and more can be achieved through highly industrialized processes, using offshore resources, test automation and economy of scale.

Contact your local Sogeti Account Manager to arrange a visit to one of our Software Testing as a Service test centers, or to find out how this service could make a difference to meeting your testing goals.