Posts Tagged ‘Software testing’

4 Notable Software Outsourcing Trends in 2012

Friday, January 13th, 2012

outsourcing trends 2012Nobody can tell more about the market than the representatives of a given industry. Below we provide the summary on the trends in software outsourcing customers’ behavior that we find important to share with you:

1. The quality of outsourcing services, as well as it’s perception by the clients, has improved greatly. This is true not only for Ukraine, but for all major destinations. Outsourcing companies move from selling man-hours to offering industry expertise. Software outsourcing cleints are interested that their teams are not just technically savvy, but also are capable to establish proper processes that help manage quality on all stages of software development lifecycle. Actually it’s not surprising - experience is the key to better quality, and the more complicated outsourcing projects are, the better quality outsourcing providers offer. (more…)

Investment Criteria for Startups in CEE Region

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

angel_investorsIn today’s world there are a lot of interesting ideas for projects. But very often developers have not enough money for their implementation. That’s why they need investments for further develop the ideas.

October 29, on a conference at the Investor Day participants talked about how you can attract investment, and how most investors look for a final decision on investment. Edward Shenderovich (Kite Ventures), who was participated in the discussion, noted that the main attention is paid to people, team. Investor looks at their level of professionalism, the ability of this team to realize the project as well look at attitudes in the command itself.

Bohdan Kupych (KM Core) noted that there is a tendency in Ukraine: there are a lot of talented technicians who are capable of implementing any idea, but there are only a few people who are able to bring the idea to market. It should be noted that in the world, there is a myth that the Russian and Ukrainian companies will never become global. But for example, take the company Kaspersky. Just a lot of companies that do not recognize this, since it is considered that it might scare away large customers.

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Software Outsourcing: Events Calendar

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

There are a lot events in IT world. This presentation is about most interesting and huge events, exhibition in software outsourcing.

See also: CEEOA was to hold the webinar ‘Presentation of ‘CEE IT Outsourcing Review 2010’
2011 Outsourcing Industry Predictions

The Future of Testing: Testers as Designers

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

the-future-of-testing-testers-as-designersModern testers play largely a role of late cycle heroics that often goes unappreciated come review and bonus time. When we find the big bug it is because we were supposed to … that’s the expectation. When we miss the big bug, people ask questions. It’s often a case of ignored-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don’t.

This is going to change and it is going to change soon because it must.

As testing and test techniques move earlier in the process testers will do work more similar to software design than software verification. We will place more emphasis on designing quality strategy for all software artifacts and not just the binary. We will spend more time recognizing the need for testing rather than actually executing test cases. We will oversee and measure automation rather than building and debugging it. We will spend more time reviewing the status of pre-existing tests than building new ones. We will become designers and our work will be performed at a higher level of abstraction and earlier in the lifecycle.
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The Future of Testing: Moving Testing Forward

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

the-future-of-testing-informationInformation

What information do you use to help you test your software? Specs? User manuals? Prior (or competing) versions? Source code? Protocol analyzers? Process monitors? Does the information help? Is it straightforward to use?

Information is at the core of everything we do as software testers. The better our information about what the software is supposed to be doing and how it is doing it, the better our testing can actually be. I find it unacceptable that testers get so little information and none of it is specifically designed to make it easier to do our jobs. I am happy to say that this is changing … rapidly … and that in the near term we will certainly be gifted with the right information at the right time.
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SWIT Investor Day