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By Anand Parthasarathy
BANGALORE, JAN. 22. Most software developers hate testing their own products. It was a chore left to lesser mortals. But increased competition and customer demand has made software testing a key operation that these days commands top talents — and pay packets. This was the message at a three-day gathering of testing professionals at an international conference on Software Testing, `STepIN Summit 2005', that ended here today. The upbeat finding was that outsourced testing might well be the next `agni asthra' of the Indian software industry. Latest estimates from Gartner put the global opportunity in this niche at $13 billion — of which $ 4.5 billion was being outsourced, and a good chunk of this was coming India's way. Arunkumar Khannur, Managing Director of QSIT, an Indian software testing consultancy and trainer who organised the event, told The Hindu that almost within a year, testing engineers in India, see their salaries overtake that of other software professionals — such is the demand for their services. "Software Testing is like dishwashing", says Zohar Golad, Vice President-Strategy with Mercury Interactive, the U.S.-based, Israeli talent fuelled company that is a global leader in the new niche known as Business Technology Oprimisation (BTO), "Dishwashers are popular because they do the job everyone hates. Software testers are like that. But the huge talent pool here makes India a logical destination for companies who look to outsource their testing and validation work." A survey conducted for Mercury by The Economist Intelligence Unit, has just revealed that Indian companies overwhelmingly considered the quality of IT as the top challenge. In Bangalore, 24 per cent of recruiting was in the software testing arena, another survey revealed. The national requirement of testers could be as high as 16,000 to 18,000.
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