The Hindu : `Average' is not good enough in software business

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Jan 11, 2004

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`Average' is not good enough in software business

By Anand Parthasarathy

BANGALORE, JAN. 10. It was entirely typical of this tech-savvy city that an international conference held here today, the first ever on the subject of software testing, had its agenda most tellingly articulated by the state's Information Technology Minister. D. B. Inamdar told over 700 software programmers and entrepreneurs: "To be average is not OK. To survive, your product must be the best". Testing of software, not just in the creative stages but throughout its lifecycle, has therefore become a key activity that accounts for almost a third of total development cost. In fact, testing has emerged as the hot new `vertical' in the software business and specialist providers of such services will ride a new opportunity wave in 2004, says Arunkumar Khannur, Managing Director of Quality Solutions for Information Technologies (QSIT), the company which hosted the three-day conference.

In his keynote, Vikram Shah, CEO, Talisma, said testing was not yet seen as a separate discipline in India. In his talk, John Whittle, Research Scientist at NASA's U.S.-based Ames Research Centre, who begins a brief sabbatical at the Indian Institute of Science, presented a new algorithm that transformed early requirements to be tested and validated into executable programmes, quite early in the software lifecycle.

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