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Independent
testing coming of age?
Many had never imagined that testing software could be a specialisation
which would offer a promising career for individuals and a
lucrative business for companies. However, testing represents
both and more. It is highly likely that colleges and universities
will roll out degree programmes on software testing soon.
Application
Delivery: The game is changing
Application delivery refers to all of the processes, including
development, testing, and tuning, that must be performed before
production deployment. There's a clear indication that change
is occurring in the application delivery approach.
Dr
S Ravichandran: Going global with quality
Dr S Ravichandran, an SEI-authorised lead assessor and appraiser
for software CMM, CMMI and People CMM, and a Six Sigma Champion
and Master Black Belt, is one of the few names that crop up
when you think of software quality in India
Become
size wise— Adopt COSMIC FFP for estimation
Annual CHAOS studies over the last decade reveal that only
16-18 percent of the projects get delivered within the allowed
cost, quality and time schedules. For the 50 percent of projects
that manage completion, cost and time overruns on an average
stand at 200 percent.
“Building
a brand for testing, a way to grow”
Vanaja Arvind is the COO of Thinksoft, a fast-growing independent
software validation and verification services company with
Global 500 firms as clients. An alumnus of Madras University
and the University of Pittsburgh, US (1986), she has several
years of experience in the IT industry, and has filled a variety
of roles and responsibilities.
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