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Outsourced test services - a worrying trend?
With more businesses tempted to outsource software testing to offshore locations with promises of double the testing effort for the same cost, Julian Holmes, co-founder of UPMentors discusses the risk and potentially false economy of outsourced testing and clarifies the benefits and dangers for those taking this route.
services market was worth $29bn in 2007, of which $6bn was spent on ‘independent testing’, where testing activity is outsourced and typically off-shored. These estimates then predicted that the market would increase to $37.6bn by 2012, with the market share for independent testing growing to approximately 30 percent ($12bn). I was immediately very concerned
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by this growth and began to wonder why businesses were choosing to
recently came across a worrying set of market figures from industry analyst Nelson Hall that estimated the software testing
invest a greater proportion of their test effort independently from the projects producing the software. Surely this will only result in software issues being discovered later on in the project, when it is exponentially more expensive to fix them?
The pitfalls of outsourced testing More businesses are moving towards outsourcing as they are primarily driven by the cost-savings offered by these services. For example, most test services providers are known to offer double the testing resources in India for the same price as independent
June 2010 | T.E.S.T DIGEST
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