To address the issue of limited resource availability, Barfoot & Thompson evaluated several suppliers and selected Planit as their testing partner. The four key reasons why Barfoot & Thompson chose Planit were:
- Planit’s permanent resourcing model allows them to guarantee the quality of Planit staff and their processes
- Planit’s pure focus on testing
- Planit’s outsourced testing solution, which provides an extremely flexible and cost effective approach to delivering high quality testing
- Planit’s transparency in disclosing the skill-sets and costs involved with our on-demand approach
Barfoot & Thompson selected Planit’s innovative model for testing throughout their programme of app for iOS releases.
Planit provided a scalable outsourced solution that ensures software testing projects are effectively managed and controlled, removing the stress and costs of setting-up and running an in-house solution. It provides a testing environment that matches your unique security and resource requirements while also employing toolsets appropriate to your specific project.
Test projects are executed by Planit’s experienced ISTQB certified testers, following a repeatable test process. As Barfoot & Thompson’s partner in testing, Planit share the load and risk, enabling Barfoot & Thompson to manage the peaks and troughs in their project cycles while delivering real value for their testing spend.
Planit provided local (Auckland-based) resources to work with Barfoot & Thompson’s team in Auckland. The combined team used a variety of communication methods to ensure an effective approach to the delivery.
Planit built a great and trusting relationship with Barfoot & Thompson and its development vendor, based on a mutual understanding and drive towards the common goal of ‘customer satisfaction’.
Barfoot & Thompson’s IT team contributed to the testing of new features prior to regression testing and determined the test cases for regression testing.
The Planit team operated in short testing cycles to perform regression testing of the app on a variety of iOS devices and versions. Around 350 test cases were completed within each 4-5 day cycle. The testing included application functionality and data that is served from Barfoot & Thompson’s API.
Through its partnership with the Planit testing team, Barfoot & Thompson ensured that all business requirements were successfully implemented, managing and minimising the risk of failure.