The near-exponential link between the timing of defect detection/prevention, and the cost of defect resolution are well documented and known. Typically, defects that leave the build environment and are released into formal testing, or even Production, are between three and one hundred+ times more expensive to resolve than if they were identified and resolved in the Build environment. Consequently, the benefit of application quality validation as an exit-gate from the development process is well understood. Automating this important quality gateway ensures that application quality is maintained, build delivery is accelerated, and the wider project outcomes are not put at risk.

The cost savings from automating development QA reviews are measurable at two levels. The first is the reduced quantity of time that teams spend reviewing each other’s application change prior to release into controlled environments; typically this saves half a day per developer per week, the average time a developer spends reviewing their peers’ change. The second saving is that reviewing application changes is typically performed by your most experienced developers, so freeing them from necessary but low-value review tasks, releases them for activities that provide the most value to your team.

Where your team comprises new or offsite developers, QA Console can ensure your quality standards do not falter. In today's rapidly changing world, capacity scaling with new staff, offshore development and local development partners are approaches increasingly adopted to deliver flexible resourcing solutions to your business. Each of these typically involves bringing new Gen developer teams quickly up to speed with your site’s specific applications and their standards. Using QA Console helps accelerate this activity by providing a simple, fast and completely objective benchmark to ensure that your compliance obligations, your QA processes, and especially your Gen standards relating to application performance, are not jeopardized by adopting these flexible resourcing options. Use the Task Scheduling feature to have these benchmarks run periodically when scheduled and review the results at a time that convenient to you.

QA Console is quick to install and simple to use. It ships from Response Systems with a set of built in, configurable, "best practice" standards, so you can begin using QA Console immediately. You can configure alternative sets of standards to support different sets of models – recognizing that applications, components and batch can require different standards. This flexibility enables you to gradually and incrementally implement your Gen standards.

QA Console features a task scheduler that allows customers to schedule long running QA activities in batch, and subsequently retrieve the results upon completion.

QA Console is available as a standalone product that integrates with 3rd party change control software, or integrated with Response Systems developer productivity product, Access Gen.