BUG” HUNTERS

Quality House was founded in 2004 as a home for software testing professionals driven by a passion to find "one more bug". Today, with offices in Bulgaria and Serbia, Quality House is a leading provider of software testing services in Southeast Europe

We have set an agenda to increase our presence in cannot save time and/or money. However, indirectly, if done other regions. In order to achieve this growth, we properly, it can certainly mitigate risks related to developing devote great effort to educating our team memproduct and support a development team in implementing bers, following world recognised standards and application with the desired level of quality, within defined certification schemes, says Quality House MD Predrag Skoković. budget and set timeline. What services does your company provide? Is professional coined, development teams were struggling to keep the cost software testing the basis for all your activities? of poor quality lower than the cost of good quality. - Software development is a very young discipline, but one that’s In today’s world, it seems like people are slowly getting evolving at an incredible rate. What was seen as a task half a used to failures in software applications. Yet there are still century ago is today recognised as an opportunity for lifelong many more applications that do not see the light of day due learning and specialisation. These tectonic movements have to their poor quality. There were (and I’m afraid there will be) not bypassed software testing either. companies that lost their reputation or

Following this progress, based on the Quality House is participating went bankrupt as a consequence of a expectation that high-quality software applications will be an imperative in the in the organisation of the single “bug”. By applying proven software testing 21 st century, Quality House was founded SEETEST conference, which is services, Quality House can help avoid in 2004. It is envisaged as a home of software testing professionals, driven by a passion to find “one more bug”. dedicated to the domain of software testing these negative scenarios that could make your company’s name the next news headline.

Today, with offices in Bulgaria and

Since the mid 1950s, when the term ‘Cost of Quality’ was Serbia, Quality House is a leading provider of software testWhich companies and industries do you test for the most? ing services (outsourcing, consulting, training), primarily in - Outsourcing companies increase their knowledge with each Southeast Europe. new client and project. Quality House has a diverse portfolio,

To repay its debt to the community, Quality House is parcovering financial, mission- and safety-critical domains (e.g. ticipating in the organisation (with SEETB) of the SEETEST banks, the automotive sector etc.). Domain knowledge is very conference, which is dedicated to the domain of software testing. important in providing valuable information to end customers. However, it is necessary to supplement this knowledge Software testing is thought to save more time and money with specific technical and soft skills, in order to perform the than any other activity in development, because any defect service to the highest level of quality. Therefore, the QH team that would delay market entry costs both a company’s money is composed of members who have different backgrounds in and reputation? Is that right? terms of education, knowledge, skills and experience. This gives - Software testing can be a very expensive “sport”. By itself, it us flexibility to quickly solve everyday challenges.