Saturday, February 15, 2014

Digging Up the Way for New Happenings - Software Testing Services -By Swati Bansal


Looking back at the history of IT sector, software testing has always been considered as an unwanted thing. These days, when the entire world is moving ad swirling, testing is lacking nowhere behind. Everyone including business owners, IT vendors and others have understood the significance of testing with time and globally accepted it as an integral part of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). In fact, according to the reports shared 

by Gartner and Forrester, out of total outsourcing business propagated, approximate 30-35% is shared by software testing alone. Adding more to the point, it has been predicted that by year 2020, the Indian testing sector is addressed to accomplish remarkable revenue generation of up to $12-15 billion. This growth and exponential rate seems encouraging and favorable enough to boost entrepreneurs and business persons to take on this happening and at least give it a shot. IT merchants and dealers endeavor to establish a TCoE (Testing Center of Excellence) and in case they don't find enough competence and proficiency, they wish to outsource to those who are skilled and expert in testing domain. Likewise, this is the same scenario with non IT firms and organizations. With the introduction of third-party testing vendors and pitchers, nowadays more options are there to choose a particular vendor suiting your set of prerequisites and requirements. Outsourcing work could really render many positives like mentioned in below:
·         Lesser cost and time to market
·         Lower risk
·         Assurance of quality
·         Faster and quicker test cycle time
·         Availability of essential and prerequisite skills
Testing is becoming day by day a quality differentiator and a value maker especially for those who wishes to comply strictly with only quality. Doubtless to mention, testing is one of the significant and vital factors leading to a quality application or product, along with a pavement to its progress and growth. The leading and prominent software testing services and solutions providers alleges to provide specialized and skilled deliverables with the assured results and significant outcomes. In addition, these peddlers address testing as independent services that represent a striking and compelling value overture. Companies worldwide are getting promoted and profited with essential improvisations in the business approaches and could concentrate on other things including creating their own center of excellence, security audits, customized testing solutions that complies their clients' needs.
In last few years, testing field has undergone a drastic change from nonexistent to existent and as the quickest growing and spreading nook in an IT arena. These days, it has moved and turned from virtually hypothetical to functional centric industry to cloud computing and so on. New methodologies and conceptualizations have been introduced like TaaS (Testing as a Service), further augmenting its growth path for new opportunities. The scenario is not at all bounded to this only, in fact with the increase in number of internet users, the demand for specialized testing services and solutions have also been raised including cloud testing, performance testing, end to end testing, which becomes mandatory for any business to assure whether the application or a website could effectually handle the expected visitors and accomplish smoothly and efficiently. It is advised to follow few parameters by testing service providers to ensure quality, guarantee and delivery standards against revenue or a loss of business. While making a decision for the outsourcing requirement, always keep in mind some concerns related to need for outsourcing software testing, right vendor, their technical skills, industry expertise, delivery standards, client centric approach, communication, experience, infrastructure, resources, project management capability and last but not least knowledge transfer capability.
In a shell, the future of testing industry seems very promising. In the coming future, there will be a time for sure when software testing services and solutions providers will conquer the interest of founders and executives who are solely focusing on software development. The mere fact is few of them have already jumped on taking a comprehensive passage to testing. Few of the leading and preeminent players catering testing services are Cognizant, IB Technology Consulting, CSC, IBM, Parasoft, NEOTYS, Intertek and Infosys.
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