India to lead in software testing - Business Standard / Businessline A META Group Study reveals that the testing business in India was $200 million in 2003-04. This is expected to be $700 million-$1 billion by the year 2007.
A Dataquest study in 2005 put the size of outsourced software testing globally at $6.1 billion of which $3 billion is offshored. About $1 billion of this is flowing to India.
Why outsource?
Customers increasingly perceive testing as an objective component to outsource and hence testing is often the first module to be outsourced.
With fixed IT budgets, outsourced testing to companies that treat testing as a separate competency allows the customer to ensure greater quality of the application before it is deployed. Outsourcing to vendors with domain knowledge and rich subject matter expertise not only ensures comprehensive functionality but also brings in business process improvements.
