Cigniti’s mobile application testing road-map prefigures how overall software testing is likely to evolve over the next few years. Like a number of its competitors, Cigniti has launched a centralized service consolidated across labs, therefore allowing economics of scale. The company is able to share costs of its device estate investment across clients, at a minimal price i.e. $100 per month and per device as an opex.

Software testing is quickly evolving from a manual activity and use of testing COTS to a form of managed service with some level of pay-per-use and towards a more non-linear growth. This is good news as software testing has in the past and still is a very human labor-intensive activity.