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Dear Friends:

Enterprise focus, long-term customer partnership, and IP strategy continue to drive growth at AppLabs. 
 
As a pure-play testing service provider, we have been continuously strengthening our portfolio by investing in intellectual property (IP) assets including for test automation (Enterprise Test Automation Platform - eTAP™), test methodology (SCORE Methodology™) and infrastructure management services (AppLabs Infrastructure Management - AIM).

Recently, AppLabs commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate software testing trends. To explore these trends, Forrester developed a survey to identify the best practices, understandings, and results achieved by 100 of the Fortune 500 companies and studied additional relevant Forrsights survey results.

The results of the study published during late July 2011 validates our understanding of the market and above all endorses our customer focused, IP driven strategy.  

• 86% of companies that outsource testing report very impressive results
• 75% have budgets allocated specifically for testing and testing automation,  47% of those companies have testing budgets of $50 million to $1 billion or more
• Forrsights survey data also indicates an expected 5% to 10% increase in outsourced testing and testing automation
• Test-centric vendors are outperforming tier 1 Indian vendors.
  

Today our account growth reflects a deepening of AppLabs’ enterprise relationships across multiple verticals, with a strategy that engages clients in tactical to strategic testing value propositions. To accelerate growth and provide customers with best value, AppLabs continues to evolve the scope of its testing service value propositions with customers.
 
In this issue of Perspective we have an article on Test Process Improvement that was published in Testing Experience Magazine. In the Technical Insights section we bring you a white paper on Cloud Testing: Determine What Fits Best with the Cloud and the second piece in this section is ‘A Holistic Approach to Test Automation’. The Newsletter also carries our usual columns including Company News, AppLabs in the News and details about our upcoming webinar - Leveraging TaaS for Quality Assurance. The case study section features Farmers Insurance in this edition.

Best wishes,

Sashi Reddi
Founder, Chairman and CEO
AppLabs

Business Insight

Shift Focus Towards Test Process Improvement for Business Transformation

With the increasing need for efficient IT processes, growing customer expectations, and focus on high quality products, software testing has grown in prominence. Today, most enterprises have acknowledged that improving and establishing an efficient test process can solve many of these problems, but they often struggle to effectively define their current processes and have no idea on how to make the necessary improvements.Read more.

Process of Security Testing a System

Technical Viewpoint

Cloud Testing - Determine What Fits Best with the Cloud

The success of cloud computing is dependent upon consistent, reliable, and secure services being delivered through next-generation data centers. Therefore, it is critical that organizations establish and maintain security processes and testing procedures to ensure that these services comply with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and corporate security policies. Read more .

A Holistic Approach to Test Automation

Today it is proven that automated testing and application quality can and do co-exist. Guaranteeing sufficient test coverage while knowing how much to automate, what to automate and what not to automate holds the key to a successful test automation strategy. Read more.

Company News

Of Fortune 500 companies that outsource testing, 96% indicate that testing automation is a top priority, and 75% have already seen positive results

Recently AppLabs commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate software testing trends. To explore these trends, Forrester developed a survey to identify the best practices, understandings, and results achieved by 100 of the Fortune 500 companies and studied additional relevant Forrsights survey results.Read more.

AppLabs wins Global Services 100 Award for the Fourth Straight Year

AppLabs has been named in the coveted 2011 Global Services 100 (GS100) list for the fourth straight year. AppLabs also made it to the Top Specialty Product Engineering Vendors List. The 6th Annual GS100 study conducted by Global Services in association with NeoAdvisory, the globalization and sourcing advisory firm ranks companies based on management excellence, customer maturity, global delivery maturity, and breadth of services portfolio. Read more.

Bank of the West Selects AppLabs as its Independent Testing Partner

Retail banking leader Bank of the West chose AppLabs to help streamline their Quality Management framework to enhance application health, business performance and improve customer experience. AppLabs will provide end-to-end testing services for the Regional Banking Group’s IT division and help in establishing standard QA practices across the group.  Read more.

AppLabs is a Finalist a EOA Awards 2011

AppLabs is the finalist in the ‘Best Outsourcing Service Provider’ and ‘Innovation in Outsourcing’ categories at the annual 2011 European Outsourcing Association’s (EOA) awards.  AppLabs has been recognized for its outstanding achievements in offering tangible benefits to its clients through a holistic solution for Quality Assurance as well as for its contribution towards the outsourcing industry and continuous demonstration of best practices across major industries. Read more.

AppLabs Survey Finds 88 Percent Enterprises Considering Automation Strategy for Testing

AppLabs announced the results of a survey it conducted recently among several quality assurance analysts and IT decision makers from Global 2000 companies. The study was to assess the readiness of the organizations to adopt software test automation. The survey was held during a recent webinar, A Structured Approach to Enterprise Test Automation, AppLabs organized, featuring a leading analyst firm. Read more.

AppLabs and Global Services Media Organised a Joint Webinar

AppLabs organized a joint webinar in collaboration with Global Services media featuring United Airlines on ‘Powering Quality Through Test Automation - Cutting Through the Hype to see How it Really Works. Hosted by Ed Nair, editor of Global services media with guest speakers – William Davis from United Airlines and Ashwin Palaparthi, Vice President of AppLabs, the webinar focused on the what, why, and how of enterprise-wide test automation. The speakers discussed in detail the following points :

• How have quality assurance and testing become more of concurrent processes rather than an end of lifecycle one?
• What are the best practices to be followed to get optimum results? What are the benefits of enterprise-wide automation of testing?
• What are the ways of integrating multiple phases of testing? Is it more about creating the right framework or about having the right testing plaform?
• How should enterprises assess the right independent testing partner?

Click  here to listen to the recorded webinar.

AppLabs is Exhibiting at STARWEST 2011

AppLabs will be exhibiting at the STARWEST in Anaheim, CA from October 5th-6th, 2011. Visit us at booth 4. In addition to exhibiting, AppLabs senior vice president Raja Neravati will be presenting “Establishing a Testing Center of Excellence: The Pros and Cons” on Thursday, October 6 at 1:30 PM Pacific time.  

AppLabs is Exhibiting at EuroSTAR 2011

AppLabs will be exhibiting at EuroSTAR 2011 in Manchester, UK from 21 - 24 November, 2011. Visit us at booth 52 to learn more about the largest independent software testing company in the world. EuroSTAR is Europe's premier software testing event and has grown to become the largest and most prestigious event on the software testing calendar.  For more details, please click here.

AppLabs in the News