Here are three hypothetical organizations that could benefit from One Shore consulting.
I’ll try to write these up into the website:
The following are composite potential customers and not real organizations.
QUICKER RAMP UP TIME, QA PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Startup X is growing rapidly. Originally, the founders did all the coding and testing (as well as marketing and janitorial work) themselves, but now are busy managing the company and (window) shopping for private jets.
With new hires comes different coding styles and varied skillsets, and the original authors barely know the code base anymore (when they do have time to look into it.) The last release slipped due to some last minute bugs discovered, and ongoing feature creep. They need to introduce some discipline into the development process and ensure quality is maintained and deadlines don’t slip.
They know they need a test environment and a better build & deployment process, but don’t have the time and resources to do it themselves.
Proposed solution: a managed virtual test environment from One Shore.
A test lab is set up within one week. No hardware needs purchased, no firewalls need penetrated, or permissions granted. With every checkin, the new code is built and deployed automatically. Smoke tests then run against the test environment and problems are detected immediately. Releases run smoothly, and manual testing is quicker too, since a developer or tester doesn’t need to redeploy the whole project (and populate sample data) every time a change is made.
OPEN SOURCE AUTOMATION TOOLS EQUALS SAVINGS
Corporation Y is a large enterprise. They have a rigorous testing process and use expensive proprietary tools. Their license is expiring, and rather than renewing it they want to investigate using open source tools.
Some of the team members are advocates of open source and agile, but don’t know how best to persuade management that it’s safe. A pilot project is proposed, and open source tools identified. While they know what they want and know their proprietary products well, they don’t have the experience with the open source equivalents and don’t know the limitations.
Proposed solution: open source automation tool training and consulting by One Shore.
A report detailing the features and limitations of comparable open source tools tools is presented. A workshop and some pair-programming helps SDETs quickly see how new tests can be written using the open source framework. Migration of legacy tests can be outsourced to One Shore and reviewed internally by testers whose main focus can be on the new features.
ON DEMAND DOMAIN EXPERTISE NEEDED (OCCASIONALLY)
Company Z is not a “tech” business. However, they do have a small in-houce IT staff that does occasional updates to their custom software application. Because it is such a specialized field, it took a lot of time to train their tester, and they were reluctant to let her go, but with sometimes several months between releases, they didn’t see any alternative.
They tried staffing agencies, but besides the training time, the search for a qualified tester took an inordinate amount of time as well. What they really need is someone who can hit the ground running, know their product, provides reliable results, and is willing to work only one month in three, part time.
Proposed solution: part time staffing from One Shore.
While there will still be the initial training time, consulting is what we do. Having multiple clients allows us to give as much (0r as little) time as needed to a client, and have top notch staff willing to work part time on your project. Because of the variety of experiences, best practices are assured, and because we’ve worked with you in the past, there’s no headhunting and retraining time waste.
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