Application Software Testing

Many enterprises are consolidating and moving to geographically dispersed ways of working. That means software applications must be tested to work in ever larger, more complex environments, of which no one person has an overview. Too often, the result of this complexity is delay, unpleasant surprises, and an end product that fails to properly answer the original business need.

Testing was long viewed as a ‘necessary evil’ and something that was performed on an ad-hoc basis prior to the launch of a new application. Companies did not have a clear view as to how much time or money they spent on testing.
As a consequence, it was difficult to measure the value it delivered. But a number of factors have helped to drive a change in how many organisations tackle software testing.

• The budget pressure on IT departments, which is being intensified in times of economic downturn, has forced them to
  adopt a more methodical approach to testing.
• As IT becomes ever more critical to the operation of business processes, organisations are increasingly aware of the cost of a systems breakdown. They are looking to insure against this through a more rigorous approach to testing that starts right at the beginning of the application lifecycle.

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