BANGALORE, INDIA: Software testing is currently considered among the fastest growing industry segments in India.

This has become possible, largely due to the presence of multinational companies (MNCs) and various other smaller companies, who have expanded their presence in a short span of time, therby, allowing many techies to enter to the area of software testing.
 
"The outsourceable testing market to India is estimated to be $32 billion and there is 18,000 professionals' shortage in testing industry. We are targeting to tap this potential market," said Mohan Panguluri, vice president, operations, EDI.
 
As we are aware, the Indian market for software testing industry is estimated to be around $0.8 to $1 billion and the latest survey showed us that we have a shortfall of 15,000 testing professionals. And, another 25,000 software testers are required in the coming years!
 
This CIOL special on software testing focuses on the software testing industry in India, the types of various testing tools available in the market, the possible career graphs for software testing professionals as compared to software developers, and how opting for a career in software testing is equivalent to software development.

Industry Overview

1. Software testing likely to enter next level of maturity
Integrating, testing and QA along the entire lifecycle of a product is key to employee indulgence and engagement for long term.
 
2. Qualitree to address software testing needs
As India is poised to become the leader in software testing market with an increasing number of companies outsourcing software testing to India, Qualitree is geared up to meet the needs of the growing market.

3. Application testing has seen a paradigm shift
The conventional approach to testing in being limited to defect tracking has now progressed, feels Mohanram NK.

4. Automation Framework to solve automation process
Manual testing has been replaced with automation to reap the benefits of repeatability, reusability and reliability says, Prabhu Annadurai.

5. Lack of test case management threatens software quality
According to recent survey only 29 percent of organizations use a test case management application leading 55 percent of organizations use inefficient methods to manage their testing.

Career Guidance

1. Know more about documentation testing
Documentation testing is nothing but testing concerned with the accuracy of documentation.

2. How to get job in Software Testing?
Testing requires in depth knowledge of SDLF, out of box thinking, analytical skill and some programming language skill apart from software testing basics.

Testing Tools

1. Applying model based testing in a UAT context
As the software industry matures, there is a growing need felt to bring some structure into the development phase and its correlation to how testing can be conducted. This article aims to describe how a model based testing approach can be adopted in a Retail Banking UAT context.

2. Have you tried Ranorex Studio?
GUI based software automation framework to simplify both integration and acceptance testing for developers, SQA managers, and testing professionals.

Your feedback, dear readers, would be greatly appreciated.