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The Benefits of QA and Software Testing

Software testing and quality assurance are sometimes difficult to convince clients to invest in on a time and materials basis. QA will have an essential role to play in your project. Here are four benefits of QA and software testing.


Software testing and quality assurance are sometimes difficult to convince clients to invest in on a time and materials basis. On the invoice, it looks like hours spent not writing code. Apart from a rapid MVP development cycle which is focused on speed to market above nearly everything else, QA will have an essential role to play in your project. Here are four benefits of QA and software testing.

1. Cost reduction

In the long run, it will save you money. QA and software testing allow us to catch issues early and when they are still small. Undiscovered issues can become deeply embedded in your project and much more difficult to identify later on. In fact, later features may be written around these tricky issues if they remain unfixed, which makes more convoluted code, which then also becomes error-prone. Ignoring QA can turn your project into a hydra in the long term, costing you way more time and money to fix.

2. Increased efficiency

In the long run – yes, there's a theme here, because QA is an investment... In the long run, it will improve the efficiency of your project as well as your end product. Your team will be able to continue to build upon high-quality code as the project becomes increasingly complex and as new features are added. It also means that inefficiencies in the code will be discovered and fixed early on, so you don't end up with a slow, cruft-filled codebase.

3. Improved end product

In the end, you will have a higher quality product to deliver to your customers. Your project will have fewer bugs, errors, and issues than if you did not spend the time assuring quality before delivery. Doing this early and often, with a CI/CD mindset, will allow your team to execute a high-quality product for you.

4. Improved customer satisfaction

Having a high-quality product with few bugs means you will have better customer satisfaction. Every positive experience with your app brings more loyalty, and every negative interaction chips away at the trust you've worked hard to earn with each and every customer. QA often finds small, easy-to-fix bugs (along with bigger more complex ones). It's stupid to lose customers over something easy to fix if we had just taken the time to implement QA.

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