Application Testing: Services Overview

Organizations are looking for new ways to curtail testing costs while increasing testing scalability. This is especially true when companies can spend as much as 10 to 12 percent of the annual IT budget fixing core application problems. Accenture thinks differently about application testing—more innovatively and holistically. Instead of testing for quality at the end, we focus on it throughout the application development life cycle.

To maximize our clients’ cost reductions, Accenture combines this industrialized focus on quality with productivity improvements and flexible sourcing. Our 13,000-plus testing professionals define themselves as stewards of end-to-end quality, delivering testing productivity at a cost-effective price. We demonstrate this commitment by conducting quality assurance activities in each phase of the application development life cycle—from plan, analyze and design to build, test and deploy.

Accenture delivers cost reductions and scalability improvements—and goes one step further. We work to improve testing productivity through automation and industrialization, while also emphasizing a holistic, end-to-end quality strategy to drive quality throughout the application development life cycle. Combined with our offshore testing services and flexible sourcing model, Accenture’s approach can reduce the cost of poor quality to less than 5 percent of IT spend.

Accenture leads the field applying an extensive range of services, tools and technologies. We leverage deep technology, process and strategy skills to assist our clients in the development of holistic testing strategies. Some of our differentiators include:

Superior Global Delivery—We bring more than 12,000 dedicated testing professionals in 18 counties with a large contingent of professionals based in China, Europe, India, the Philippines, South America and North America. 

Flexible Sourcing Model—Our mission is to provide you the right skills at the right time in the right place … and importantly, at the right price. 

Innovation Leader—Accenture’s patented and patent-pending assets, tools and thought leadership perspectives enable continuous innovation for our clients.

Deep Experience—Providing offshore development and testing services for more than two decades, our team stands ready to help you build and refine testing skills, functionality and achieve economy of scale savings and efficiencies.

The scope of Accenture’s testing offerings spans from strategic to tactical. Our specific services include:

• Testing Strategy & Assessment: Assists clients with end-to-end testing and quality assessment process, from planning through final recommendations.

• Testing Automation: A robust set of tools and assets to consistently support the entire spectrum of automation-related testing activities.

• Performance Testing: A wide range of strategic and tactical performance test services.

• Testing Center of Excellence: We implement and operate a “Testing Center of Excellence” for clients, either at the enterprise level or within specific business units.