India's Role In Software Testing
According to report of IDC analysts, approximately $1 billion of the presumptive $13 billion of global software testing market fall to Indian companies. With regard to constantly evolving trend, we will explore the industry and its future prospects in India.
Software tools are changing drastically from day to day, and software testing outsourcing also keeps its pace and gradually has become specialized discipline and now evolves faster than ever before. Top management of IT companies has grasped that idea and benefits of outsourcing and now heavily invest into software testing. As a result the opportunities and capabilities have grown considerably in recent years.
Talking about the official stands to software testing market technical managers of large corporations comment: that with an increased realization of possible threats and losses defective solutions can cause, companies would rather test software than risk its commercial failure further on. Nevertheless, in spite of increased awareness, software testing is still to fight to gain high priority status in long term views of IT companies.
It’s a terrible fact but many applications are not tested properly before their final release. As a result the firms suffer great losses because of forced standstill. Thus, this becomes the prior concern of company’s CIOs.
Meantime, India is evolving into one of most demanded locations for offshore testing, with sales opportunities for the offshore software testing companies currently assessed at $2 billion, and predicted to increase to $8 billion by 2008.
Such daring forecasts ground on increased reliance by worldwide software vendors on India to reduce expenses in terms of logistics and time. The potential available in the software testing space is alike the offshoring model propositions. The global delivery model successfully tried and true in development practice also gains competitive advantage in the software testing space.
Analysts point out that quality of testing becomes one of the major concerns. So, vendors do their best to optimize testing by means of both tried and tested and innovative techniques. In the light of the above most organizations realize that software testing becomes an independent professional discipline. It is directed not only to yield maximum objectivity and transparency to bugs reporting process, but also enhances the business strategy itself.
Customers more likely to entrust their software to be tested by a third party or independent company that did not partake in the development process. And what is more, it reduces expenses by deploying cost-efficient models and perceived risk of outsourcing testing is comparatively low.
Whereas traditional Indian software service players concentrate their core activity around BFSI domain, some companies made their stakes upon multiple testing segments: in particular, testing of wireless, mobile and embedded systems.