Wednesday January 18th 7pm
Thanks for your note, Seth. I agree on your posts around IaaS, PaaS,. The ‘X as-a-service’ nomenclature is very easy to comprehend when “X” is ‘tangible’. E.g. Infrastructure, Software, etc. My thought process was, what if ‘X’ is not tangible? What if ‘X’ is a service by itself and we would like to utilize it on an on-demand / need basis only? That triggered a thought process around ‘Testing as a Service’.
Recently we completed a project where the effort estimate was 600 hrs. However, the client preferred to spread it across few months, with 0 efforts on some weeks. A classic corollary of the ‘as-a-service’ framework.
The similar concept can be extended to Test Tool usages.
All said and done, the primary benefit however remains the same, lowering total cost of ownership and distributing the risk across the board.
My key learning: These approaches compel us to think lean and eventually it’s a win-win scenario for all.
PS: All said and done, I still believe these are fancy jargons / concepts rearranged in different forms, but certainly address the cause of better customer satisfaction.