



: the offshore testing services from India have grown phenomenally in the last decade. India’s testing services export market stood at $5 billion for financial year ending 2008 and the market is growing at 40% per year,” says Gangadharaiah.
As the technology is evolving and becoming stronger, there are growing opportunities for both the software and software testing companies. Naturally, business potential from the sector is high. Rathi says, “I would expect that about 30-40% of the outsourcing would be in the software testing area or any businesses/processes supporting software testing business.
According to Rathi, software testing is an integral part of the software product development process. Software product development still remains an extremely human intensive activity, which needs to operate many a times in an ambiguous environment. Because of this, the prospects in the software testing industry will remain strong and continue to grow.
“Anything which is associated with interoperability, specialised domains, testing in an agile environment, test automation, embedded, etc, are the areas of software testing seeing major growth,” adds Rathi....
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