Case Study

The Client

A large game publisher was looking to reduce costs and lower their internal resource requirements. The client tried the Gameshastra advantage package on a pilot run and discovered the innumerable benefits of outsourcing.

The Problem
A significant rise in game development costs
As the new generation of consoles have emerged, game development costs have skyrocketed. In order to minimize the risk involved in venture development, we offer a development plan that allows cost cutting wherever possible. Quality Assurance, although considered a critical component to the game development process has been highlighted as an easy, cost effective component to outsource.

Increasing size and scope of Games
With the release of the latest generation of hardware, the amount of game content has dramatically increased. This increase has led to larger test teams and a lot more equipment required than was used in the past.

Increasing competition for Testers
With gaming seen as a seasonal industry game studio’s face steadily increasing competition for the limited pool of testers. At peak season the local testing talent pool is severely depleted.

Benefits
Offshore outsource testing provides immediate solutions to all the issues faced by game developers and publishers.

Offshore Testing Lowers Quality Assurance costs.
Offshore Testing can immediately impact the budget of a project, by providing high quality testing at a lower cost than a publisher’s internal test resources. Offshore testing costs are significantly lower than the domestic outsourcing resources.

Offshore Testing utilizes a highly talented pool
The average offshore tester has a university degree in a technology related field. Many have degree in computer science and a large percentage also have master’s degrees. Offshore testers are well qualified to carry out processes involved in QA.

Offshore testing lowers the internal space requirements and hardware needs of a publisher’s test team
Outsourcing test processes offshore allows QA management to focus more on analysis of test data and communication with the development team, rather than managing people and test cases.