3 Simple ways to prevent defects in Software.

1. Step outside your comfort zone and see your product from other points of view.

Sometimes entrepreneurs and business owners are so close to their solutions that it’s hard to see the product from a different point of view. This is why it’s important to have user sessions, focus groups, and your QA team involved throughout the development life cycle.

Getting feedback and advice on potential problems during development can lessen the chance of problems down the road. Plus, during this process, you may even get a new idea or new feature to add to your solution that you hadn’t even thought of before.

It’s difficult to handle criticism with grace, when the honest and open feedback and acting on that feedback can only serve to make product a better solution with fewer bugs.

2. Focus on quality, not quantity

It doesn’t matter how many downloads or users you have if people aren’t actually using your product because it’s not user-friendly or crashes. And it doesn’t matter how quickly you get to market if you are delivering a less-than-stellar solution.

Slow and steady wins the race. Being painstakingly methodical in your development and QA process is the key to producing an application or solution that works exactly the way it was intended.

3. Make QA testing a priority from the very beginning!

If you don’t invest in a solid QA plan up front, you’ll regret it in the future when you end up spending a ton more money fixing a software bug. The cost of software defects is always much higher than the amount of money you’ll spend on proper testing, not to mention the damage to your brand and the loss of customer trust.

If you want to build the best product, you need to have the best QA team and plan in place.

In conclusion, they say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.