Future of Independent Software Testing - Rapid assessments and comprehensive coverage

To ensure higher levels of quality and safety, Independent Software Testing is being mandated by governments, financial institutions and industry protocols. On the other hand, customers are demanding faster response times, smoother UI and stronger security backed by unbiased external assessments.

The increasing demands are strengthening the rise of pure play software testing companies with the ability to work in corporate business environments across verticals. The onus of identifying the defects in existing and emerging scenarios lies with these institutions.

The current global economic scenarios are a perfect example of an extremely sensitive IT ecosystem. A minute defect can snow ball into a major catastrophe and initiate a ripple effect that can destabilise the entire network. The growing interdependence of components and the constantly changing deployment and adoption patterns pose the primary challenge to business outcomes.

Testing has moved up the priority list to build consensus among the stakeholders.  The new age business scenarios have incorporated m-commerce, social models and cloud computing to stay relevant. In addition, Big Data, Crowd sourcing and cross compatibility have become primary areas of concern as well as innovation.

Building, maintaining and operating applications in such scenarios demand high levels of speed, skill and accuracy. Because the outcomes of independent assessments have fresh perspectives, there lies the advantage of detecting inherent defects and surprise elements. 

A proper reporting mechanism not only helps reduce post production defect density but also refine the technology, process and configuration to deliver better results. In the light of financial losses and flawed initiatives that have affected some of the biggest corporations, the focus is to handle huge workloads with meticulous assessments. 

With a global service delivery system and a team of career testers, Cigniti brings a whole new approach to Software Testing that packs the dual advantage of rapid assessments and comprehensive test coverage. Cigniti’s test offerings are designed to enrich the client’s business outcomes and transform the applications to meet the projected outcomes.

Technology partnerships and strategic alliances make Cigniti an ideal partner with the ability to transform a testing engagement into a business solution that enhances the resilience levels of the applications. In fact, Cigniti’s global thought leadership program ventures into the futuristic scenarios and build services that help clients be prepared to incorporate the emerging changes.

Cigniti Software Testing – Ingredient to ensure the quality of software

Comprehensive Testing for Software Quality

At a time when software glitches have affected some of the biggest corporations and institutions, Software Testing has become an essential ingredient to ensure the quality of software.

Moreover, there is an increasing demand to build software that is resilient in the evolving IT ecosystem. Success depends on the ability to absorb requirements and offer business solutions with rapid and comprehensive testing.

As enterprises and ISVs build and deploy a whole new breed of applications, the matrix of test requirements has to cater to enterprise mobility, social models, and financial transactions in addition to the transformations of the existing applications.

Applications need to withstand newer benchmarks of load, peak and spike while security needs to be strengthened for emerging scenarios. Functionality and compatibility are two crucial areas that will define the future of an application in an ecosystem that is witnessing Big Data, Device fragmentation and technology disruption.

To understand the on-going changes and their impact on the current and emerging UI scenarios and infrastructure optimization, it is essential to have an assessment of the cause and effect relationships of defects, scope of defects along with their source, location, cause and treatment options.

It is not a surprise to know that comprehensive software testing is a reason behind some of the most successful applications.  While the applications seem to offer smooth UI, it is the outcome of a carefully crafted testing strategy that includes regression testing and test automation for the long run.

It makes sense to align the business logic into the technology and test the process while reducing defect density and eliminating bottlenecks along the way.

The advantages and implications of Software Testing are now being recognized not only for business development plans but primarily to ensure concerns of the impact of the defects. The trend has resulted in a string of laws and enforcements by governments, industry consortiums and international financial institutions.

From standards compliance to product development under simulated conditions and to authentication of projections/investments, software testing is now being deployment in a staggering array of scenarios.

Cigniti understands the role, nature and scope of software testing across verticals and business environments.  With over 15 years exposure in the IT industry and a strong pool of career testers, Cigniti offers software testing services that enrich business outcomes.

Cigniti Technologies Predicts the Trends in Software Testing Industry in 2014

Raj Neravati, COO, Cigniti Technologies, world’s third largest Independent Software Testing Services Company shared his experiences from 2013 and discussed about trends that may significantly impact Testing Services Industry in 2014 and beyond.

This year we will see a paradigm shift in testing industry. Independent software testing majors will gain momentum as against the conventional IT services majors. Software Testing has emerged into becoming a mainstream activity in Software Development Life Cycle and plays a vital role in production release. Year 2014 and ahead will be a very important year for testing services. A report by the leading industry analyst firm Nelson Hall, suggests that Independent Software testing services is expected to grow by 9.5% year on year till 2018.

He added that, “The year 2014 will also see a shift happening where Independent, pure play software testing providers serving more major software testing services contracts as against the conventional, traditional testing services providers”.

Quality Assurance has to be delivered with predictable outcome, speed and in a lowered cost model. To sustain the current pace of changes, there is a demand for comprehensive service portfolio, which can address generic as well as the unique requirements with rapid assessments.

The major chunk of innovation will happen in the areas of IP-led testing. IP-led testing is undoubtedly the future. It is a value driven offering to clients using patented tools. This helps Clients jumpstart their QA initiatives. We also believe that Independent Software Testing will play a crucial role in sectors with large application portfolios like BFSI, Life sciences and Utilities. Leading industry report predicts Financial Services and Energy, Utilities will lead the pack.

Disruptions around technology adoptions in Digital Enterprises need new age software testing services. Initiatives around enterprise Mobility, Cloud and BigData, adoption of Enterprise App Stores, Responsive web will create compelling need for specialized software testing service providers.

Companies need to invest in Career testers backed by strong skills in open source tools, agile testing models, Performance testing, Security testing, Cloud Testing, Dev-Ops, Social and Big Data testing, Application Performance Monitoring and most importantly Mobile test automation tools. Companies are also learning to cope up with disruptions that are happening due to the advent of young mobile application development people; innovative crowd sourced testing vendors, passionate weekend testing vendors and others.

Companies have to back the services models by investments in superior cloud enabled testing infrastructure, look at deep R&D that can plug gaps in the current offerings in the existing market tools, while complimenting them.

Given the cost benefits, flexibility and increasing feasibility, Cloud based testing will be the next logical move that will benefit enterprises. Testing as a Service (TaaS) is already a part of the service offerings by Independent Software testing enterprises and major corporations. Since Testing over the Cloud is a critical decision, there will be a demand for impeccable pre-engagement assessments and agreements in the form of a global service delivery model that meets standards compliance, data privacy, and global business protocols. He signs off saying that 2014 will be an exciting year for the independent software testing services companies.

About Cigniti:

Cigniti Technologies is the World’s 3rd largest Independent Software Testing Services Company, headquartered in Irving, TX. Cigniti’s test offerings include TCoE, Enterprise Mobility Testing, Testing on Cloud, Big Data Testing, Functional, Automation, Security and Performance Testing services. Over the last 15 years, Cigniti has helped Enterprises and ISVs across verticals build quality software while improving time to market and reducing cost of quality. Cigniti has translated its R&D into Cigniti SMART Tools that accelerate testing and help improve the quality of services delivered to clients. Recognized as a pure play testing services provider with multi domain skills by Gartner and as a leader in IP led testing services by industry analysts like Nelson Hall, Cigniti is also the world’s first Independent Software Testing Services Company rated at CMMI SVC1.3 maturity level 3 and is an ISO 27001:2005 certified organization. With a team of over 800 people, Cigniti has strategic alliances with the leading product, tool and technology vendors. Cigniti’s CSR- Project Cignificance works with an objective to meaningfully impact a million plus lives using education as an enabler.