Testing and Trusting

From Business Line

The basic approach to testing has not changed much. Functional testing comprises about 80 per cent of all software testing work. This is still largely executed manually, and, in many cases, is tedious, error-prone and time-consuming.

However, with agile testing methodologies coming into play, organisations have realised that the total cost of ownership can be reduced by focusing on testing.

Security testing is a new growth area. It has become a mainstream offering in the last couple of years, says S.R. Ramaswami, Executive Vice-President and Head (Insurance solutions and Application Certification), Polaris Software Labs.

Virtusa Corporation says it increasingly focuses on risk-based and benefit-based testing to optimise the testing effort and spend, apart from using the traditional testing model. “In product companies, test-driven development is gaining importance.