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Agitar Software sets up Indian subsidiary

K. T. Jagannathan

The fully owned subsidiary will have Bangalore as its headquarters

CHENNAI: U.S.-based Agitar Software, Inc., a leader in developer testing technology, has set up an Indian subsidiary. Christened Agitar Software India Private Ltd., the fully owned subsidiary will have Bangalore as its headquarters in India. The decision to set up a subsidiary also signals Agitar's intention to deepen its engagement in India, which is emerging as one of the principal markets for Agitar.

In an interaction with this correspondent here recently, Jerry Rudisin, CEO and President, said the company had over a dozen clients using its products in India. Cisco, Cognizant, Polaris and MindTree were among its customers in India, he added. The company has over 150 clients across the globe.

The CEO said Agitar was different from run-of-the-mill testing companies. Essentially, Agitar was concerned with fixing problems arising out of delays in the release of software projects due to bugs and the like which resulted in cost over-run. The idea is to fix the problem at the initial stage itself.

How can software development organisations release software faster even while improving quality? That was the key question, he said. According to him, the answer lay in adopting `unit testing'. "It is a process in which software developers take responsibility to test their code as they write their code,'' he said. Unit testing was a proven idea. It was usually done manually, with developers writing their own tests by hand.

Agitar Software — Agitator and Agitar Management Dashboard — provided meaningful and effective automation of unit testing for Java projects, he said. Agitar's solution gave developers a deeper understanding of their code as they wrote it, helping them prevent bugs and `build quality in' instead of relying on the Quality Assurance (QA) team to `test bugs out'.

According to Mr. Rudisin, the customers of Agitar had documented shorter development cycles, 90 per cent reduction in defects handed over to system integration, and 90 per cent lower cost of bug fixes after release. "Developer testing'' was a multi-billion dollar business, he said, and cited huge possibilities for Agitar.

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