Top Technical Drivers for using Testing Services

Managed specialized testing services
 
In its recent applications survey IDC asked the participants to select the top three technical reasons for using third-party testing services, regardless of whether the organization actually used them or not.
 
Among the reasons the respondents highlighted the salient ones included help with test data management services, support for vertical solution testing and complex infrastructure testing, leveraging fully managed application lifecycle testing services, automation of regression testing , standardizing test tools and processes and benefiting from third-party tool expertise and fully managed specialized application test frameworks.
 
The three towering drivers the survey results popped up were:
  1. Infrastructure testing
  2. Using managed specialized testing services
  3. Drive greater standardization and automation into internal test processes