The document discusses strategies for undergoing application transformation with minimal business disruption. It outlines how application landscapes have evolved with new technologies and discusses balancing legacy systems with new business objectives. It emphasizes the importance of quality assurance during the transformation process to assess current maturity, reduce costs and risks, and increase business value. The transformation approach includes transitioning to test automation, implementing DevOps, and leveraging a Testing Center of Excellence to optimize the transformation.

1. APPLICATION
TRANFORMATION
How to undergo application
transformation with minimal
business disruption
UNDERTAKING

2. With the advent of mainstream mobility and increased
cloud adoption, applications landscapes have evolved to
incorporate new, more complex technologies, applications,
and operating systems versions.
For businesses, the goal is to make the most of evolving
software applications. How do you do it?
The Evolving Application Ecosystem
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3. Unlocking Business Value From Applications
The transforming application ecosystem poses significant
challenges to companies in terms of unlocking business
value from their application portfolios. Most companies are
faced with two choices:
Continue with existing applications for cost reduction and risk market standing
Respond to the need for business transformation in order to stay competitive and
remain relevant
Forward-thinking businesses respond and transform.
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4. Overall Goal Of An Application Transformation Strategy
The key goals for a company while undertaking their
application transformation journey can include:
Rationalizing inflexible applications that resist change
Balancing new business objectives and legacy application architectures by
overcoming integration constraints and complexities
Achieving greater business value while reducing cost
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5. Validation – Role of QA In Application Transformation
An effective application transformation strategy will focus
on:
To achieve the above goals and successfully undergo
change, companies must have a strong QA strategy in place.
Improved quality
Greater speed
Reduced cost
Increased business value
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6. Test Strategies For Application Transformation
Tying an effective QA strategy to their application
transformation program enables companies to assess:
Current maturity level of testing
Potential for and extent of integration
Complexity of the application portfolio
The likely impact of the transformation on customer experience
Scope of alignment with business goals (multi-platform, Omni Channel)
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7. Accelerating Application Transformation
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Astegic outlines strategic QA measures to accelerate
Digital Business Transformation through:
Transition from manual QA to automation
Transition of QA automation from application-level to full test lifecycle
Test-driven development
DevOps implementation across functions

8. Astegic’s Test Strategy – Leveraging TCoE
Analyze current
application
portfolio and
establish
desired
QA Testing
goals in line
with application
transformation
strategy
Determine
measurable
metrics &
recommend an
effective mix of
automated,
manual and
performance
testing process
Strategize
engagement
and resource
models;
outline &
establish strict
SLAs with
client teams
Maximize ROI
while
significantly
minimizing
risk and time
to market
Effectively
integrate QA
capabilities
with client
teams; deploy
proprietary QA
frameworks &
accelerators
(TRAF, CRAFT,
MTAA, KDEFT)
Optimize
application
performance to
drive application
transformation
and greater
agility through
enhanced
software
reliability
Deliver
continuous
improvement
through a
consistent
feedback loop
Analyse Propose Strategize Integrate Optimize EnhanceLeverage TCoE
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9. Astegic’s Offerings For Application Transformation
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Astegic’s QA Assessment and transformation roadmap
offering includes:
Evaluation of existing application portfolio(s)
Assessment of QA processes
Measurement of QA maturity level
QA transformation modeling
TCoE set-ups
Verification and validation
Post deployment support

10. Astegic’s Focus Areas In For Application Transformation
Astegic’s Focus Areas In For Application Transformation
Improved ROI on testing, deploying proprietary QA frameworks and accelerators
Test Automation strategy & Automation tool feasibility
Test Cycle Time Optimization
Seamless transition from traditional waterfall to an agile environment
Improved QA outcome through SLA driven test governance
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11. About Astegic
For 15 years, Astegic has been helping Fortune 500 through
startup companies with their Testing & QA needs. With our
in-depth experience across a wide range of industries, our
clients receive innovative and best-in-class service and
solutions. We offer near 24/7 rapid service from both Astegic’s
US and India based testing operations.
Focusing on resolving our client’s testing challenges,
Astegic specializes in decreasing costs, speeding
time-to-market and improving the quality of our client’s
applications. Astegic has a dedicated Testing Center of
Excellence (TCoE), specializing in providing solutions across
Mobile, Cloud and API testing.
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