10 | Testing world
vendors, are excellent for regression costs, ensuring increased testing
testing of large, relatively stable expertise and augmenting their test
software applications. Care must be teams. Given the increasing pressure
taken with second generation tools to for software quality, many companies
maintain documentation and enforce will resort to outsourcing testing in
scripting standards, and if this is done order to obtain a crucial competitive
the cost and time savings can be advantage. The trend of outsourcing
compelling. Most tools being used is expected to continue to grow and
today for test automation are second transform the software testing efforts
generation tools. of many corporations, not just in the
Third generation tools have emerged US but worldwide.
recently, from smaller, more innovative
firms, which do not require scripting The American way
skills, and can be maintained very The US has been at the forefront of
efficiently and easily by relatively software test improvements over
junior test engineers. The more the last few decades, Bach, Gilb and
advanced third generation tools also Myers were all leading experts and
generate test case documentation innovators in the field of software
automatically. This combination of testing. A vast amount of innovation
ease of use and extreme efficiency has been driven from the US with the
leads to a very high ROI for waterfall European markets following the lead
development, and is perhaps the most set by these American innovators and
viable approach to automation for due to global corporations having
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agile development sprints. standardised policies and procedures
With their extreme speed of in place. Asia has then followed suit as
implementation and maintenance, they look to standardise their working
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automated documentation generation, practices with the European and US
and ease of use advantages, third markets.
generation tools offer a compelling The ever increasing use of agile
ROI for modern software development development methodology has been
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teams. adopted with gusto in the US in the
past five years and is driving rapid and
Offshore outsourcing wide-reaching change in the global
Understaffed test teams that begin software industry. This topic merits
late in the development process its own discussion, and has been
" P O F E B Z F W F O U G P S T F O J P S M F W F M Q S P G F T T J P O B M T U P E J T D V T T
are a common problem, leading to extensively discussed in the technical
the teams being frequently rushed press. Agile development
E F C B U F
B O E S F T P M W F U I F J S N P T U Q S F T T J O H D I B M M F O H F T U I S P V H I
to complete the required tasks in a has attributes which challenge the
compressed period of time. Some status quo in testing. For one, cycle
B T F S J F T P G Q S F B S S B O H F E ' P D V T ( S P V Q T
companies look to implement an times are much faster – a sprint of a
ad-hoc testing team of subject matter few weeks does not leave much time
experts in the latter stages of the for test development or automation.
lifecycle utilising the developers in the Thus, the need for third generation
hope of completing testing tasks in an test tools and specialists who
unrealistic time-frame. This seldom understand agile testing is strong and
leads to satisfactory results. getting stronger.
U I 4 F Q U F N C F S
Outsourcing firms can help Agile development also requires
organisations meet tight deadlines that test plans be co-developed with
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by utilising their workforce of test software design, ideally enabling
specialists in affordable locations. But, testing to start before the software
many factors need to be considered has been developed. Again, speed of s $ E B A T E 3 E S S I O N S
when outsourcing; specialised skills, implementation and maintenance,
duration, confidentiality, a legal and availability of expertise, are key
s 0 E E R 4 O 0 E E R . E T W O R K I N G
system that supports IP protection, factors for effective test automation
Gordon MacGregor
s $ I S C U S S ) N D U S T R Y 7 I D E ) S S U E S
and close management to name but a here. It's probably fair to say that CEO
few. Although currently India has the agile as a discipline is not yet mature
SmarteSoft
www.smartesoft.com s - I N I % X H I B I T I O N ' P S N P S F J O G P S N B U J P O
majority of software test outsourcing, enough where test methodologies
emerging countries like China, and tools are well established in
s & R E E ! T T E N D A N C E
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Singapore, and Eastern Europe are advanced form, but it is clear that test
proving to be viable alternatives. China methodologies developed for waterfall
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& N B J M H S B O U G B S S F M M ! N F E J B D P V L
4 E L E P H O N E
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for example in 2004 produced 351,357 development are of limited utility in
computer engineering graduates, more the agile world. This is perhaps the
s A - J N J U F E 1 M B D F T " W B J M B C M F % M A I L J O G P ! W J U B M G P D V T H S P V Q T D P N 7 E B S I T E X X X W J U B M G P D V T H S P V Q T D P N
than the US and India combined next great challenge for the software
Outsourcing testing tasks can test industry, and a challenge which is
Steve Christer
Global head of testing
also provide many other benefits to being aggressively pursued in the US
4 H E 6 I T ! , & O C U S ' R O U P S A R E O P E N T O A L L I N D I V I D U A L S W I T H I N T H E ) 4 I N D U S T R Y A L T H O U G H E I G H T Y C O M P L I M E N T A R Y P L A C E S A R E O F F E R E D T O - A N A G E R S ( E A D S $ I R E C T O R S A N D # ) / S O N A F I R S T C O M E F I R S T S E R V E D B A S I S 4 E R M S A N D # O N D I T I O N S A P P L Y
Strategic Systems Solutions
www.sssworldwide.com
companies seeking to reduce testing and Europe today.
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