Software Testing: The next outsourcing boom sector

Indian Outsourcing industry is increasingly turning towards software testing.

In fact we have started providing software testing services to customers from 2005.

Reuters reports on companies like Wipro, Infosys and Aztech who are experiencing boom in this sector.

C.P. Gangadharaiah, vice-president of testing services at Wipro, said his team has jumped four-fold to 2,400 in two years. In the nine months to December, revenue grew 90 percent to $64 million, three times the industry average.

Software glitches are estimated to cost nearly $60 billion a year in the United States alone, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Companies such as online share brokers and handset makers are willing to spend a lot to avoid them.

Testing could make up 25-50 percent of software budgets, said Partha Iyengar, vice-president at industry researcher Gartner. Independent testing is growing at 50-65 percent while the part of work done offshore is growing at 35-40 percent, he said.