Could a testing tool audit save you £100k+?

Quality Engineers often use various tools to streamline and enhance their testing efforts, manage test cases, report defects, and automate testing processes. These tools form an integral part of many organisations’ approach to Quality Assurance due to the time and cost savings they provide.

However, when selecting software tools, it's crucial to choose the right ones for your organisation. It’s useful to obtain an outside view on whether your existing suite is maximising your time and resource to deliver the best possible outcome on quality.

Our Tool Review Service is an extensive deep dive to help you understand your tool usage and maturity. The service aims to assess your tools to determine their suitability, effectiveness, and efficiency align with your organisations’ requirements, objectives, and budget. Through careful analysis and engagement with key stakeholders, we can understand your requirements and provide recommendations on tooling to help improve test processes to deliver a better outcome.

DRIVING BETTER RESULTS

We provide an independent review of your tools and identify opportunities to improve how you use them and whether you could replace or complement the existing tool set. We don’t have an affiliation with any provider, so you can rest assured our recommendations are completely unbiased.

PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO CHANGE

Our experts will provide a pragmatic approach to implementing our recommendations, and where required, help organisations make the necessary changes through training or coaching.

LATEST TECHNOLOGY AT YOUR DOORSTEP

As a business we are continually reviewing the tools in the marketplace. We have dedicated R&D investment to discover new tools and features, so if we discover a new gem, we’ll bring it to your attention.

We have helped many of our clients review their existing tools and made recommendations that have made a measurable positive impact for their business.

One such client, a large retail chain with 1,800 stores, approached Roq because they wanted to improve their testing processes and cut down on licensing costs. They were using a large number of automation tools, from several different partners, which was costing them a significant amount in ongoing fees. They wanted to standardise their automation process but were unsure how an automation framework that leveraged open source tools would integrate with – or replace – their existing solutions.

Roq identified the Robot Framework as the most appropriate toolset to use based on its versatility and ability to deal with many different applications and languages, and the fact that it is relatively easy for new users to adopt and manage.

After proving its effectiveness across several applications around the client’s internal HR system, our team rolled the Framework out across the client’s web-based applications, dealing with data processing and validation, and remote applications.

The challenge of ensuring that the new tools interfaced successfully with existing applications was addressed by the Roq team, whose vast experience with open source tools ensured that the process was seamless.

Test scripts were written using a keyword-driven approach which would enable the client’s teams and third-parties to easily adopt and use the framework delivered by Roq.

As a result of the successful implementation of this project, we effectively removed licensing costs for the client, saving them £100,000 annually.

If your organisation would like to know more about automation or assess whether your existing tools are giving you the most return, please reach out to us for a chat. One of our specialists will be happy to discuss your business requirements.