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Software Testing Assessment and Forecast

Market Analysis

by Dominique Raviart

published on Apr 19, 2013

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Report Overview:

NelsonHall's Software Testing market analysis consists of 114 report/presentation slides and analyzes the global software testing market.

Spending in software testing remained healthy and strong in 2012 in spite of the economic environment. Spending grew by an estimated three times as much as overall IT services spending across the world.

Who is this Report for:

"Software Testing Assessment and Forecast" is a comprehensive market analysis report designed for:

  • Sourcing managers investigating sourcing developments within IT services and software testing specifically
  • Vendor marketing, sales and business managers developing strategies to target service opportunities within the software testing market
  • Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services and software testing sector.

Scope of this Report:

The report analyzes the worldwide market for software testing and addresses the following questions:

  • What is the current and future market for software testing services?
  • What are the client segments for software testing services and their characteristics? Also, what are the drivers, benefits and inhibitors for each segment?
  • What is the size and growth of the software testing market by client segment, geography, service line, activity and sector?
  • How did spending grow in 2013 and onwards?
  • Where is delivery organized and located?
  • How is the market organized? Who are the main vendors? How can they be assessed and compared? What are the criteria to assess the service offering, delivery organization and IP of the different vendors?
  • What are vendor challenges and critical success factors by market segment?

Additional topics include: contract lengths; pricing models; partnerships; acquisitions; delivery center locations and the use of offshoring; and vendor targeting by client size, geography, and industry.

This report includes several grids that assess the delivery networks and overall service offerings of 20 software testing vendors.

Key Findings & Highlights:

Factors behind the growth in testing spending are mainly related to:

  • Buy-side clients focusing on professionalizing their testing activities, largely through centralization of their testing function
  • Adoption of factory-based delivery with India being the core delivery element.

In terms of contract form, adoption of multi-year contracts remains strong, while professional services, especially for testing execution, is in lesser demand. Multi-year contracts offer much flexibility to clients; whether they are framework agreements or SLA-based contracts. Interestingly, in spite of the discussion on outcome-priced contracts, most SLAs found in contracts are:

  • HR-related
  • Built around the number of test case designed, automated or executed.

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