Objective
Software products require constant improvements, due to a rapid change of needs by the users. Successive releases of the products are delivered to the clients, requiring a great amount of time and effort for testing. The costs associated with this activity move forward the break even point of each individual product.
This is a common business concern and the main driver of this experiment, whose objective is to reduce total production effort, to reduce errors and to reduce maintenance resources.
THE EXPERIMENT
The CITRATE PIE will introduce methods and tools for automated testing, in the software development process of NOVABASE, in a stepwise and continuous way. The total duration of the experiment will be 18 months, starting in March, 1997.
The baseline project associated with the CITRATE PIE will be the development and upgrade of the CSI software product line, in the areas of materials management and act management, which constitutes an integrated offer for health care providers.
The testing effort, the number of errors and the maintenance costs will be compared along the experiment, against current metrics of the company.
NOVABASE employs 80 people, 10 of them involved in the baseline project.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
Achieving the above objectives represents direct cost savings and an increase on the quality of the products. Higher margins will be obtained and increased competitiveness will be acquired.
NOVABASE expects the following impact:
To limit the effort needed to test a software product to 10% of the global effort in software production.
To reduce by 50% the total number of errors found after product release, leading to a higher quality level and a considerable reduction of risk in the implementation phase.
To reduce by 50% the effort needed for client support, transferring the available resources to other productive areas.
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