World Quality Report by Capgemini

How well is your organization driving software quality and testing compared to other companies today?
-Which areas in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) pose the greatest challenge to an organization’s success?
-How well do companies follow best practice standards?
-How quickly are companies adopting Agile methods?
-How are virtualized environments changing the way companies test?
-What skills do testers need in increasingly distributed teams?

The 2010-2011 World Quality Report provides insights into these questions and more. This report is based on survey findings from hundreds of testers, business analysts and developers and reveals emerging trends in quality and a forecast of how these trends will shape ALM and associated software in the future.

http://www.capgemini.com/insights-and-resources/by-publication/2010-11-world-quality-report/

Size of multi-billion dollar testing market

Welcome to multi-billion dollar testing market
Software Testing is one of the emerging areas in IT industry which is rapidly growing. Increased competition and customer demand has made software testing a key operation which demands nowadays top talents and pay packets.

The Global software Testing market is estimated to be $17 billion dollars. The market opportunity for the Indian offshore testing companies is currently $10 billion, estimated to rise to $15 billion in 2012. The software-testing arena would require 25,000-30,000 professional in the next one year as per the IDC report.





Software is integrated into every area of our lives, it's critical to the way we live.

In industry - we no longer have to justify why we need Software testers. Companies are already convinced.

Testing is attracting higher standards of talent.

Decade ago, testing was not recognized at the same level as development. Today, both billing rates and salary levels of testing professionals are comparable, and at cases better than programming professional.

Customers are more exposed to technology and will not accept anything less than perfect software.

Next generation users are more technically advanced. There is low tolerance for poor usability and poor performance.

Higher Business ROI through Cloud Based Testing Environments

Higher Business ROI through Cloud Based Testing Environments

With proliferation of multiple development environments, operating systems, browsers, distributed user base world, testing of an application is becoming increasingly complex. N-Dimensional just seems inadequate when quantifying the testing space formed by new development environments. In the past, we thought we could put our arms around the testing space. We felt like we could understand all the possible states and the resulting effect on our code path traversals. We would use our known black box testing methodologies (like boundary value analysis, equivalence class partitioning etc.) and could load test well beaten paths with our known testing tools. This is true no more. To test with all the possible permutations and combinations, need for the size of test labs are increasing on exponential basis. It is not an unusual thing to hear that various releases of an application have been pushed off as the test lab was not available for the testing teams. Cloud computing environment can surely give a helping hand by providing economy of scale for wide variety of test environments. This paper is making an attempt to explore that how cloud computing can help to bridge this gap in test infrastructures and which all market players are trying to fill this gap.

• What is Cloud?
• Why Cloud?
• Advantages of Cloud
• Typical Cloud Deployments – Examples
• Vendors providing Cloud Services
• Challenges in Cloud Deployments
• Testing using Cloud Based Environments – Benefits and Limitations