26 | Outsourcing Testing
An introduction
to outsourcing
As companies have come to realise the importance of testing,
they have also simultaneously discovered the benefits of offshoring
it. Graham Smith, head of test consultancy, Europe at Cognizant
Technology Solutions explores the benefits of outsourcing.
W
e are in dynamic times methodologies or improving the
where the structure customer experience by enhancing
of the economy at their customer-facing applications.
Organisations now look
large, and businesses
to testing to provide
in particular, is undergoing change. The rise of testing
The role of IT as a business enabler Software testing’s emergence as a
them with the necessary
is now even more prominent – and separate vertical, rather than a part of
confidence to power ahead
as a result, business, IT and QA are in-house activity, is a result of five key in their business initiatives
no longer seen as discrete elements factors. First, with a large number of
of integrating disparate
but complementary in building a applications moving online, a robust
competitive advantage for business. testing infrastructure has become
platforms, reducing
Software testing has evolved over imperative for handling huge volumes
time to market with
the years from a ‘necessary evil’ to of transactions in real-time. Secondly, accelerated development
a ‘value enhancer’. Organisations the increasing number of mission-
methodologies or
now look to testing to provide them critical applications on the horizon
improving the customer
with the necessary confidence need to be high-performance and have
to power ahead in their business high-availability. As such, testing them
experience by enhancing
initiatives of integrating disparate for performance and robustness is their customer-facing
platforms, reducing time to market critical, as many of them are becoming
applications.
with accelerated development ‘self-service’ applications.
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