Testing, maintaining projects a balancing act

Nowadays many organizations have lots of complicated applications running that are in continual development. A major challenge for them is to balance the available resources between maintenance work and adding new capabilities to the application. Devoting too many resources to one or the other can cause the product to lose ground to competitors who are always looking for an opportunity to seize your business by doing a better job of mastering that balance.

This challenge is transferred to the testing team in a much bigger manner. It becomes very difficult to determine the amount of testing needed for the maintenance phase and for the new features given the time constraints. This situation needs a perfect balancing act, as both are important and consume considerable amount of time, and requires careful

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consideration of priorities.

It's important to note that the need for maintenance grows as your customer base grows, and it's not a good idea to neglect your base of existing customers.

Here are a few pointers that can help you strike a balance between testing applications in the maintenance phase and making sure new features are tested thoroughly as well.

To conclude, I would say that the aforementioned considerations are some of the main ones that the testing team needs to balance in order to have a product that is tested effectively so as to compete and gain market share. If you succeed to achieve both the goals of maintaining as well as improving the existing product, then it will greatly help your product to maintain its competitive position in the ever-changing market.