A lot has been said about the global economic meltdown and its impact on the offshore outsourcing industry. And it is the time to look forward to economic recovery now. And businesses are just gearing up for that. However, cost cutting remains to be a prime strategy employed by companies in order to make sure they remain in a key position in the market.

by Jay Philips

It is very important to make sure that your application functions as expected. There may be times that you add one little piece of code and all of a sudden other parts of the application no longer works. You may not have time/capacity to manually go back and regression test all the pieces of your application to make sure they are up to par. Companies use a variety of different testing tools for regression testing. There are lots of tools out there from very expensive to open source.

Below is a list of some open source/free tools that may come in handy.

Please keep in mind that every application is different so the tool you pick from one application may not be the same tool that you pick for another. My advice would be to pick a tool that can meet most of your current and near future needs.

Test automation is very widely used by companies due to the many benefits it offers. From better test path coverage to repetitive and exhaustive testing, it overcomes human errors that are caused by tiredness or negligence. But along with so many advantages, it also poses many problems.

You have an automation solution for almost every situation but managers often find it very daunting to locate the right one and implement it in the best way. Let’s have a look at 6 steps to achieve success in test automation. These steps are easy but are often ignored, leading to failure.

Understanding and commitment

The seminar aims to provide more information for IT workers in Vietnam, particularly on knowledge outsourcing and patching.

India is reputed for providing knowledgeable and skilful IT workers to many international companies working in the IT industry. Rohit Talwar, an Indian senior business advisor for international corporations investing in India said that outsourcing is still a major earner for India and is tied to the development of its IT sector. Nevertheless the country needs to pay more attention to emerging competitors, such as developing countries in Eastern Europe, Africa and other countries in Asia, like Vietnam and Pakistan.

Many Japanese companies are choosing to outsource much of their IT work to Vietnam. According to a November 2006 article in GlobalServices, “Vietnam: Capitalizing on the China-Japan,” by the year 2010 as much as 10% of Japan’s software outsourcing may be sent to Vietnam.

For all the reasons described above, Vietnam is clearly an excellent choice for meeting any business’ outsourcing needs. Here is a quantitative summary of the advantages of working with offshore providers located in Vietnam.

Outsource to Vietnam? Offshore development includes software, web design, website, application testing and more. Outsourcing software development is the driving economic force of many emerging countries.  India and China are well recognized as the industry leaders for outsourcing software development. Despite their huge market share in offshore development, Vietnam is quickly emerging as a software outsourcing destination. Outsourcing to Vietnam is gaining recognition as a low cost quality software maker in Asia. CIO magazine suggests that to outsource to Vietnam is about 90% cheaper than developing software in the United States of America. Compared to India, developing software in Vietnam costs between one third and one seventh times cheaper. These are very convincing figures for companies to start venturing their offshore development to Vietnam.