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Wipro Converging its Crowdtesting Activities Around QaaS & Topcoder
Oct 04, 2017, by Dominique RaviartI recently talked with Wipro about its crowdtesting capabilities. Here, Wipro has a different positioning and service portfolio from crowdtesting pure-plays, with a stronger focus on automation frameworks (with its mobile website and app testing framework), and access to mobile device labs. QaaS: an aggregation of testing offerings at scale QaaS is an aggregation of s[...]
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RPA Can Benefit from Testing Services’ Best Practices & Experience
Sep 08, 2017, by Dominique RaviartThis month, NelsonHall will publish its annual software testing services report, focusing this time on digital testing, DevOps, and agile testing services. The main areas of the study include: Mobile testing UX testing, which is quickly expanding from its regulation-led accessibility testing offering to usability testing DevOps/continuous testing, which reflects i[...]
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Cognizant's Testing Bets: Crowdtesting, Communities & Machine Learning
Jul 18, 2017, by Dominique RaviartCognizant recently hosted NelsonHall in its mobile center of expertise in Grenoble, France, to discuss how it is expanding its Quality Engineering & Assurance (QE&A) practice. QE&A is a very significant practice within Cognizant - NelsonHall estimates that it represents over 14% of Cognizant’s global headcount. Unsurprisingly, digital, DevOps, and agile are [...]
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Tech Mahindra Focusing on Automating Manual Testing with Agile in Mind
May 19, 2017, by Dominique RaviartThere continues to be momentum in software testing, with many IT services vendors investing in automating different steps in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), notably through the creation of testing platforms. Platforms, involving the integration of open source software, COTS, and proprietary accelerators, are redefining the testing industry. Gradually, vendors are expanding[...]
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Dell Services: the Glue for "One NTT DATA" In North America
Nov 03, 2016, by Dominique RaviartDell Services is a strategic acquisition, though an expensive one Yesterday, NTT DATA Inc. closed its acquisition of Dell Services, seven months after its initial announcement. The acquired entity, now called NTT DATA Services on an interim basis, has some obvious benefits. For example, it: More than doubles NTT DATA Inc.’s revenues from $1.7bn to over $4bn Significantly s[...]
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How NIIT Technologies is Transforming Testing Activities for Agile Projects
Oct 20, 2016, by Dominique RaviartNIIT Technologies is undergoing significant change with its software and software product testing services, reflecting the impact of agile projects for building digital applications. We recently spoke with the head of their CoE for Agile and DevOps to find out more. NIIT Tech Embedding Testing Work in Agile Development Activities The iterative nature of agile requires test[...]
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Testing Platforms – The Emerging Opportunity to Commercialize Vendor Testing IP
Oct 13, 2016, by Dominique RaviartIn recent years, the software development life cycle has become increasingly automated as IT service vendors seek to drive greater efficiencies in software development and maintenance, and increase their ability to scale. This is true for testing as well as for wider software development support. Initially, as elsewhere, the increasing automation of testing was based on the develo[...]
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Capgemini: Seeking to Reduce Friction and Accelerate Clients’ Speed to Value
Aug 05, 2016, by NelsonHall AnalystThe digital economy is significantly increasing expectations for speed of delivery as organizations strive to compete with agile, digital-native competitors. In response, IT service providers and their clients are shifting to a continuous delivery approach that incorporates design thinking, agile application development & test, and DevOps – all connected and aligned with the desire[...]
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Rio 2016: How Atos is Helping the IOC Redeploy its Budget from Run to Digital
Jul 08, 2016, by Dominique RaviartFour years ago, at the time of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games, NelsonHall reported on the work Atos does for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) though its Major Events unit. See our previous commentary here. This week we visited its center in Barcelona to get an update on the work it is doing for the Rio Games starting next month, The Olympic Games remain a fantastic o[...]
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Infosys Applying AI to Test Automation
Jun 03, 2016, by Dominique RaviartInfosys has briefed NelsonHall on several automation testing initiatives based on analytics, AI/machine learning and robotics. The software testing services industry continues to impress with its level of investment in IP and automation. Gone are the days when testing service vendors were talking about their testing frameworks and set of standalone accelerators and test case repositories. [...]
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Accenture Invests Ahead of the Curve with Omni-Channel Testing Platform
May 16, 2016, by Dominique RaviartAccenture recently briefed NelsonHall on its new Omni-Channel Testing Platform (OCTP), an accelerator that sits at the intersection of Accenture’s Digital and Testing businesses. This is a reflection of the fact that software testing services are no longer confined to custom applications and COTS, but are now well integrated into the digital world, a process that started some three to four y[...]
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TCS Bringing AI to Software Testing Automation
Mar 08, 2016, by Dominique RaviartTCS recently introduced 360 Degree Assurance (360), an AI-based IP, based on analyzing data gathered from several sources across the IT software development life-cycle. Current use cases cover defect root cause analysis and for test case optimization. 360 follows the introduction last year by TCS Assurance Services Unit (ASU) of NETRA, proprietary IP which helps automate the Dev-to-Ops cycle. N[...]
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Limiting Input to the Digital Testing Conveyor Belt: IBM Emphasizes Combinatorial Test Design
Feb 19, 2016, by Dominique RaviartIBM Quality Assurance and Testing Services (QA&TS) practice recently briefed NelsonHall on its approach to managing test cases and on reducing the numbers of test case automation, beyond pair-wise testing. Before we jump into the details of IBM QA&TS’ offering, let’s step back for a few moments: software testing remains a very human labor-intensive activity. If we take a man[...]
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Atos Refreshes Concept of Model-Based Testing with Launch of M-Frame
Jun 01, 2017, by Dominique RaviartAtos recently briefed NelsonHall on M-Frame, IP the company has recently launched focusing on model-based testing (MBT) and integrating it with test data creation, performance, and security testing. M-Frame looks to remove several inhibitors that exist around MBT: complexity of the different MBT software tools, and lack of a business case for building and maintaining the UML diagrams used for MBT [...]
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Tech Mahindra's Push to Automate Performance Testing in the Context of DevOps
Mar 23, 2017, by Dominique RaviartWe have reported several times on the service offering of the Performance Engineering unit within Tech Mahindra’s Testing Services business. Tech Mahindra Performance Engineering (TMPE) recently briefed NelsonHall about its work in positioning performance engineering within DevOps through its CONPASS platform. Automating Performance Testing in the Context of DevOps One big element [...]
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L&T Infotech’s Digital Customer Experience: Joining the Dots Across UX Testing
Feb 16, 2017, by Dominique RaviartIn a previous blog, I looked at L&T Infotech’s efforts in automation, and in particular around data, from an analytics and test data management point of view (see the blog here). In this blog, I take a look at recent advances L&T Infotech (LTI) has made in User Experience (UX) testing that go way beyond traditional testing approaches. UX Testing Expanding to Crowd Te[...]
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Accenture Testing Services: Focus on UX, Automation & Changing Workforce Needs
Jan 30, 2017, by NelsonHall AnalystAccenture recently held a two-day symposium for the clients of its testing services to look at how testing services are changing, showcase its latest offerings, and allow successful engagements to discuss the keys to their success and lessons learned. Testing services are at a crossroads, as agile and DevOps have increased expectations around speed of delivery and driven convergence across [...]
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L&T Infotech’s Assurance Platform: Identifying Automation Gaps In Data-Related Testing
Jan 25, 2017, by Dominique RaviartNelsonHall has been advocating for some time that software testing services vendors should focus on automating full testing processes or testing functions, and no longer be solely focused on standalone accelerators/point solutions. This is commonly called a ‘platform’ approach, and we define platforms as pre-integrated/interfaced COTS, accelerators and open source softwar[...]
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Software Testing: Agile & DevOps Bring Reality to Quality Assurance. Industrial IoT is Next Step
Jan 25, 2017, by Dominique RaviartIn the past ten years, we have seen most IT service vendors’ software testing divisions and the testing pure-plays rebadge from independent verification and validation (IVV) to quality assurance (QA) services. Vendors have been very active in expanding their service portfolio (non-functional, digital testing) and in leveraging IP and accelerators. Nevertheless, there still is a gap be[...]
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Cigniti Launches Migrate 2 Selenium IP, Targeting Large Estates of HPE Test Scripts
Oct 24, 2016, by Dominique RaviartCigniti, and its subsidiary Gallop, recently launched Migrate 2 Selenium (M2S), a migration tool that reengineers automated test cases (test scripts) from software testing COTS such as HPE UFT, to open source software such as Selenium. The non-digital world uses commercial testing products Migrate 2 Selenium is not just another accelerator. We think the intention behind M2S, in[...]
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SQS' Professional Services Transformation Almost Complete: Organic Growth Now In Sight
Oct 13, 2016, by Dominique RaviartWe recently talked to Diederik Vos and René Gawron, respectively CEO and CFO of SQS, to reflect on SQS’ financial H1 2016 performance and on strategic initiatives. Service Mix Transformation Impacts Revenue Growth in H1 2016 On the surface, the performance of SQS in H1 2016 was mixed: revenues were up 10.9% y/y but flat at constant currency/perimeter (CC/CP); and an adjusted PBT[...]
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Passbrains Expands Crowdtesting Offering to User Experience/UX
Aug 23, 2016, by Dominique RaviartTo most non-testing experts, software testing services are a dull but necessary activity, whose main driver for growth has been the creation of testing factories in India. And yes, there is a significant element of this. At NelsonHall, we continue to be surprised by software testing service providers’ ever expanding service portfolio, the level of investment in proprietary accelerators t[...]
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Tech Mahindra’s Application Security Business Expands Offering, Targets Multi-Year Deals
Jul 22, 2016, by Dominique RaviartIn an earlier blog, we described how Tech Mahindra had expanded its performance engineering testing to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT), and here we take a look at how the company is handling another area of non-functional testing: software security testing. Tech Mahindra provides security services through its Cyber Security practice, a horizontal line of business. The practice has a headco[...]
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Virtusa Deepens its BFSI Testing Capabilities with Polaris Acquisition
Jul 08, 2016, by Dominique RaviartEarlier this year Virtusa acquired Polaris, now rebranded as VirtusaPolaris. Polaris was a mid-sized (~$300m revenue) ADM pure-play (it had spun off its Intellect software product unit in 2014) specializing in BFSI sectors (95% of revenues, NelsonHall estimate), in particular treasury and capital markets (~52% of revenues in Q4 FY 2016, the period ending March 31, 2016), corporate banking (~19%) a[...]
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Mindtree Invests in Testing Automation
Jun 15, 2016, by Dominique RaviartMindtree recently briefed NelsonHall on its work in testing automation, in particular on its Dynamic Test Engineering Platform (DTEP) IP which the company launched in 2015. With DTEP, Mindtree is centralizing access to several IPs and accelerators and hosting them on the cloud or on premise. DTEP, which automates the testing life cycle, includes several elements: Test support services i.e. d[...]