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The outsourced QA and Testing market continues to grow at a rapid rate. Research by leading analyst firms estimate this to be at $69.5 billion by 2011 and offshore testing will increase from around $3 billion in 2007 to $16 billion by 2011. This edition of Perspective aims to provide insight for organizations who are considering outsourcing their QA and Testing or who are looking to change service providers.

AppLabs' experience reveals that there are two main areas that organizations need help on when planning to outsource - Measuring Financial Return and Mobilization. Vikash Sureka, VP and Financial Controller of AppLabs, gives great advice in Business Insight about how to ensure you achieve cost savings when offshoring QA and Testing, and Technical Viewpoint provides 10 Key Considerations when choosing an outsource or offshore service provider, covering topics such as Engagement Models, IP & Security and Communication.

This edition also provides a great opportunity to register for a series of WebExs on key topic areas; 'Addressing the challenges of testing SOA based applications' (register) and 'Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - How to overcome these in choosing an offshore QA and testing provider' (register).

We hope you enjoy this edition of Perspective.

Sashi Reddi
Founder & CEO

Service Update

AppLabs' Outsourced QA and Testing Services provide the right combination of engagement models, comprehensive testing activities and processes to ensure our clients achieve their desired business outcome through operational excellence. The following service sheet provides an overview of AppLabs' service offering more+

Business Insight

As the provision for offshoring continues to grow at a phenomenal rate, decision-makers are becoming more accountable to stakeholders. This article looks at what measures can be put in place - including thorough appraisals and benchmarking - to mitigate the risk of missing business objectives and ensuring you achieve the cost savings promised from offshoring more+

Technical Viewpoint

When taking on the challenge of outsourcing your QA and Testing, there are many things that should be considered and accounted for throughout the RFP, negotiation and contracutal phases. This paper outlines 10 key considerations for outsourcing QA and testing services, based on AppLabs' extensive experience in this field more+

CSR Update

AppLabs continues its humanitarian work through ACT, the AppLabs Charitable Trust. Representatives from AppLabs recently visited a home for HIV patients in Hyderabad, India and donated clothes, shoes and toys. The home does fantastic work in helping those who have been affected by the social stigma attached to HIV and the founders, Sister Clarit and Father Joseph were extremely grateful for the contribution made towards the patients more+

Company News

Turquoise Selects AppLabs as Testing Partner

Turquoise, the multi-lateral trading facility established by nine leading European investment banks today announced that it is partnering with AppLabs to deliver the testing programme which will verify and ensure that the trading platform is fit for purpose more+

Application Testing and Management Strategy Briefing

This event was run by the Butler Group Analysts and took place on 6th February in London. AppLabs had a stand at the event which to receive the delegates.

Ian Londesbrough gave a presentation at the event in an unconventional format that was well received by the audience. Ian interviewed Sandra Berry of Openwork 'on the sofa' and gave an overview of the work we have completed together and looked at what value it has added more+

STEPAUTO 2008

ISQT Process & Consulting Services organized a 3 day event - STEPAUTO 2008 International Conference from 19-21 February in Bangalore, India. ISQT partnered with AppLabs to confer the ‘AppLabs Testing Award’ for the best whitepaper, selected by a panel of industry experts, which was presented to Venkata Ramana of Virtusa India for his whitepaper titled ‘Developing Effective Testing Organizations – An Approach Based On TQM Philosophy’.

Makarand Teje, President & COO, AppLabs, was a keynote speaker on day 3, which focused on Test Practices and Automation. Mak spoke on ‘Performance Testing - Critical today in the Indian Testing Industry’. Manoja Nara, Team Lead, AppLabs, spoke on ’Testing Web Services’ in the subject track dedicated to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

AppLabs ranks in top Global Services 100 List

AppLabs made it to the Global Services 100-2008 list. The list is brought out by Global Services and neoIT and recognizes the Top 100 companies from around the world in 10 categories including service-delivery areas such as IT Services, Customer Care and Business Process Outsourcing more+

AppLabs in the News

Compliance Crossing - Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley: Are We There Yet?

Financial Express - Should CSR stand for citizen's social responsibility?

Securities Industry News - High Cost of Best Execution

MoneyControl - Turquoise selects AppLabs as Testing Partner

To see all the articles in which AppLabs features, click here

Industry News

FS Outsourcing: Can India continue to rule the global knowledge economy?

Computerworld UK: First glimpse of IE8 expected next week

IT Week: Global firms bet big on SOA

The Register: Hotmail dies on both sides of the Atlantic
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WebEx Schedule

Addressing the challenges of testing SOA based applications, 19 March 2008

Research carried out by AppLabs shows that the majority of organizations globally are implementing SOA applications or considering doing so in the near future. The inherent risks of utilizing SOA within the organization places a greater emphasis on "right first time" deployment and there is therefore greater need for rigorous testing. This WebEx highlights the key challenges faced by organizations in testing SOA applications and provides an insight into the tools, techniques and processes to ensure a successful implementation. To register, click here.

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - How to overcome these in choosing an offshore QA and testing provider, 23 April 2008

Return on Investment? Have I chosen the right service provider? Have we got the right contract in place? Have we done the right thing? These are all thoughts that come into the mind of organizations when they are choosing an offshore QA and testing provider - whether it's the first time or the third time. This WebEx describes how to ensure you ask all the right questions and more importantly getting all the RIGHT answers to help you sleep at night. To register, click here.
Case Study

Speed to market is of great importance to organizations, particularly those such a Blackboard, a leading provider of software applications to the education industry. An unrelenting product release schedule means testing and QA often suffer so Blackboard selected AppLabs for their responsiveness, high quality of work but especially for their offshore capability more+
Employee Spotlight

Vikash Sureka
VP & Financial Controller
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Events

ICST, 9 April 2008, Lillehammer, Norway

The IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation (ICST) is a new forum bridging research and practice in many areas related to software quality. Ian Londesbrough, Principal Consultant, AppLabs, has been selected to present his paper entitled 'A Test Process for all Lifecycles' at the workshop on 9 April.

TestExpo 10 April 2008, London, UK

AppLabs is exhibiting at this event which is one of the UK's premier events for Software Testers attended by members of the top organizations. Tim Durham, Principal Consultant at AppLabs, is speaking; his presentation is entitled 'Test Execution: That's the Easy Part'. In it, he will look at how testing requires many different skills so successful teams need diversity in order to succeed.