STQ takes its name from the business concept of straight-through processing (STP).
Traditional techniques for testing and delivery have often required a great deal of manual support and intervention.
These approaches are subject to human error, cost of delay and lack of reuse.
These also have the negative side-effect of being unable to deliver 'fail-fast' approaches, which have proven popular with Agile practitioners.
Previous traditional approaches have been typically expensive where whole silo'ed departments are created within commercial companies to deliver Quality and Deployment alone.