Traditional testing methodologies are losing shine as today’s product firms are under tremendous pressure to meet their goals and expectations of the customers. Unlike the past years, when organizations deployed manual methods to test software, today the environment has undergone a major change. The older methods are time consuming, costly and inaccurate. It is important to design the test strategy early along with the product road map and begin with a test plan, a document that contains details about the objectives, approach, scope and focus of a software testing project. The recorded session provides greater details on why and how companies can leverage readily available specialized skill set for software testing. To listen to the entire webcast (10 minutes), please visit http://www.impetus.com/featured_webcast?eventid=13 OR To post any queries on Software Test Engineering, write to us at isales@impetus.com

1. Software Test Engineering Imperative for future proof, scalable and successful products

2. Introduction As per Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_test_engineering “Software Test Engineering is the acquisition and application of technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement testing best practices and processes that enable realization of software testing objectives desired in a given product development life cycle” 2 Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm

3. Current Market State Traditional testing methodologies are losing shine as today’s Product firms are under tremendous pressure to meet these goals: Accelerate their product development cycles Reduce cost of development and time-to-market Scale faster Improve quality with lesser efforts Deliver better user experiences Be right, the first time Enhance global competitiveness 3 Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm

4. Challenges faced by product companies during software testing Are we doing the right thing, right way? Is my testing team doing enough testing? Wish I had more budget to test more? The product has to ship tomorrow not sure if we will have tested it enough? Is my product of acceptable quality? Shall I outsource? 4 Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm

5. What to do? How can I address all these challenges? Some of the possible solutions to these challenges are Define the test strategy early, if possible, along with the PRD (TRD) Prioritize test areas based on requirement business criticality and projected test coverage Define upfront the defect handling strategy and philosophy: Best practices? Define and implement a test metric program Test Metric driven Product Status Report for every product build Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm

6. What to do? (Contd..) Identify and evaluate tools to suite business requirements, Open Source tools to reduce capital expenditure Automate for cheaper regression Identify if the tasks can be performed from offshore or onsite, use collaboration tools Setup transparent system to track each team member remotely 6 Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm

7. No company knows the business of Test Engineering better than Impetus, a pioneer in Outsourced Product Engineering that has partnered in the development of over 1,000 products globally…. Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm

8. What Impetus does in the Product Engineering domain: Helps companies design and build products, successfully. Uses cutting-edge technologies—Cloud Computing, HPC, .Net, SaaS, and Open Source to give customers an edge in the products space Harnesses its expertise, best practices and processes to deliver the best products Deploys Best Practices such as its onsite-offshore and White box/Gray box engagement models and benchmarks Leverages its experience of working on products that it has co-developed with clients Invests in R&D to improve value add to clients Provides an end-to-end services covering technology research, architecture consulting, design and development, customization, integration and product testing 8 Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm

9. The Impetus edge in Test Engineering Perfect blend of manual, automation and specialized testing techniques ROI driven automation; offering a higher return on testing investments On demand testing infrastructure – delivered through Cloud or access to dedicated hardware/software labs Pool of testing professionals with varied skill sets across a wide variety of domains and tools Test Architects to identify testing challenges in the “Product Envisioning” phase to define the scope of product testing Tools, technologies and methodologies with built-in metrics, best suited to achieving business results Innovative testing models to suit any budget 9 Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm

10. Thank You Webcast available at: http://tinyurl.com/yedrnnm