Software Testing India

Software testing is the process of checking software, to verify that it satisfies its requirements and to detect errors. Software testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test[1] , with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate.

Like never before, everyday life has become dependent on software and software-based systems. Most of today’s appliances, machines, and devices are completely or at least partly controlled by software. Administrative proceedings in state agencies and industry, too, rely to a large extent on highly complex IT systems. Examples are the management of insurance policies, inventory control systems, biometric characteristics in passports and ID cards, and the electronic health chip card.This strong dependency on software requires ever higher investments in quality assurance activities to enable IT systems to perform reliably. Software testing is developing toward a specialized, independent field of study and professional discipline within the computer sciences.

Within the discipline of software testing, “test management” is of particular importance. Test management comprises classical methods of project and risk management as well as knowledge of the appropriate use of well-defined test methods. With this stock-in-trade, the test manager can select and purposefully implement appropriate measures to ensure that a defined basic product quality will be achieved. In doing so, the test manager adopts an engineering approach.

This includes, but is not limited to, the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs. Testing can never completely establish the correctness of computer software. Instead, it furnishes a criticism or comparison that compares the state and behaviour of the product against a specification. Over its existence, computer software has continued to grow in complexity and size. Every software product has a target audience. For example, the audience for video game software is completely different from banking software. Therefore, when an organization develops or otherwise invests in a software product, it presumably must assess whether the software product will be acceptable to its end users, its target audience, its purchasers, and other stakeholders. Software testing is the process of attempting to make this assessment.

A common practice of software testing is performed by an independent group of testers after the functionality is developed before it is shipped to the customer. This practice often results in the testing phase being used as project buffer to compensate for project delays, thereby compromising the time devoted to testing. Another practice is to start software testing at the same moment the project starts and it is a continuous process until the project finishes.

India is poised to capture a major share of the worldwide software testing market. This is because of the established and dominant IT service sector, presence of organizations with matured processes and practices, and the versatile IT skill-set of testing professionals. India has the potential to corner 70 per cent ($1.82 billion) of the outsourced testing market. The compounded annual growth rate for the independent outsourced testing market is estimated at 56 per cent while the independent offshore testing has been estimated at 92 per cent over the next few years. Software companies, from India and abroad, are investing in establishing ‘centers of excellence' to effectively tap this growing market.

Moving forward, software testing has entered the next level of maturity. This demanded expertise in specific domains like embedded systems testing, real-time testing, healthcare systems testing, web-application testing, client server application testing, performance testing, connectivity testing, inter-operability testing etc.

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