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Test Plan as Important as Development Plan This is a true conversation I had with a client, followed by my email to him a few months after this conversation Client: I would like to have a high quality, bug free application for my customers. Me: Our developers are excellent, but we would need a good testing strategy to make sure that the application that goes live lives up to your and industry’s quality standards. Client: We are a startup and would like to keep the costs under control and would like to keep the testing budget down. Client: You need to take care of the quality at the development level. Client: We will also do the testing of the application on our own. Me: Okay, that would be great. I wish, I hadn’t agreed…

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Test Plan as Important as Development Plan

This is a true conversation I had with a client, followed by my email to him a few months after this conversation

Client: I would like to have a high quality, bug free application for my customers.

Me: Our developers are excellent, but we would need a good testing strategy to make surethat the application that goes live lives up to your and industry’s quality standards.

Client: We are a startup and would like to keep the costs under control and would like tokeep the testing budget down.

Client: You need to take care of the quality at the development level.

Client: We will also do the testing of the application on our own.

Me: Okay, that would be great.

I wish, I hadn’t agreed…

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Dear Client,

It has been a pleasure working with you from the very start when you came to us with youridea. Brainstorming with you about converting your idea to a feasible concept to developand bring it to market has been wonderful. We have been awed by the groundwork that youhave done about your idea and the concept documents that you came up with. Over the lastcouple of months, we have crossed a few phases together where we have produced thevisual designs of the application, finalized a solution approach, setup the framework of theapplication and have developed a few modules of your requirements. The journey so far hasbeen nothing short of a roller coaster ride.

But now we are on the brink of a situation that can lead to a big RISK. My fault was that Isubmitted to your suggestion about cutting on testing budget during our initial discussion.That decision has led to the following concerns.

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