Media Centre

The Planit Media Centre is dedicated to the latest Planit news, compiling exclusive content for use by the media. This includes Press Releases and Whitepapers.

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Press Releases

UK contender Facilita enters the battle for the Australian Performance Testing Tool market

Wednesday, 05 October 2011 – Facilita announced today that it will bring its prominent IT performance and load testing tool, Forecast, to the Australian market after partnering with Planit, the region’s leading specialist software testing provider.

Facilita’s testing software has proven to be very popular in Europe, being a leading UK-based solution, and is poised to make its mark on the Australian and New Zealand markets with this strategic partnership with local market leader, Planit Software Testing.

Software Development shakes-off the GFC-blues but cannot escape trouble

Sydney, Australia – 16 December 2010 – Optimism has returned to software development projects across Australia and New Zealand, with over 60% of organisations reporting at least as much activity now as pre-GFC.

In the recent 2010 Planit Testing Index, surveying over 200 organisations, 26% of the industry indicated that they have now moved beyond pre-GFC activity levels.

According to Planit Managing Director, Chris Carter, this positive outlook also carries through to spending for software testing in 2011. “49% are going to be spending an increased amount of money on structured testing methodologies, which is encouraging to see,” said Carter. “We’re also seeing an increase in spend in Software Testing tools and also an increase in spend in training permanent staff.

Planit brings Learntesting to Australia and New Zealand

Sydney, Australia – 17 October 2009 – Independent Australian software testing and training orgainsation, Planit, has become the local partner for online training resource, Learntesting, to help Australian and New Zealand businesses improve the quality of their software testing.

Learntesting is a new online hub that provides a global network of expert training resources. It provides access to online instructor-led courses, virtual classrooms, blended offerings, e-books and a range of other software testing related content, including free papers and presentations. Throughout the rest of 2009 and 2010 the portal will expand significantly and will include the addition of Planit’s course materials.

“For distributed workforces this type of training is a cheaper alternative, by about 50 per cent, to classroom learning,” says Carter. “We all know that continuing to invest in training your staff is essential, even in times of uncertainly, and this portal allows businesses to do just that, in a more cost-effective and less disruptive way.

Latest Whitepapers

Traditional vs. Agile methodologies

By Leanne Howard
Account Director, Planit Software Testing
Published: Testing Experience, March 2012

How do you collect the metrics to allow you to pick the most appropriate methodology to fit your context?

ABSTRACT: This paper outlines a study conducted to compare different methodologies using a controlled environment, the same test input documentation and similarly qualified professional testers. Whilst it is a fairly small project the results are striking and contained within this paper some conclusions have been suggested. We also threw in a change of tool and analysed this impact as well!

The methodologies compared were WATERFALL, AGILE and BUG HUNT.
Whitepaper: Traditional vs. Agile methodologies

Who cares about quality?

By Ted Morris Dawson
Test Consultant, Planit Software Testing

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a method for assessing the levels of care about quality on an IT project. It can then be used to stimulate discussion about and give visibility to a team’s ownership of quality.

Starting Point

An IT project is a complex entity, but no matter how complex, if a simple key driver such as the level of care about quality is missing, the outcome will be uncertain at best. How might teams or individuals protect themselves from failure caused by a lack of care about quality?

Whitepaper: Who Cares About Quality?

Will automating regression suites save us time?

By Leeane Gadani
Test Consultant, Planit Software Testing

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this whitepaper is to answer the question “Will automating regression suites save us time?”, by providing examples of success and failures with projects that I have worked on. It will also aim to provide the pain and benefits of automating regression suites.

Starting Point

This question is often tossed around from project to project, and most of the time we find ourselves asking “can this be done faster and more efficiently?” Most of the time the answers we get are “it’s too hard”, “there are so many factors that are in play”, “it’s too expensive” or “we need to upskill and train personnel”.

So is having a repeatable automation suite the answer? Or can it be that having repeatable manual test scenarios that are high level enough to go through business functions more acceptable?

Whitepaper: Will Automating Regression Suites Save Us Time?