With the shrinking testing cycles, both time and budget - at a time when software drives our lives, it is a scary prospect to test software in the conventional approach. One bad piece of code has resulted in multi-million dollar losses to financial firms and a "Minor" software defect in Toyota's acceleration / braking system resulted in loss of lives.
Early this year, independent software testing services company, Cigniti Technologies, acquired US-based specialized software testing services firm Gallop Solutions with the aim to become the world leader in software testing. Its CTO, Mahendra Alladi says, “Software testing has reached a stage where it is no longer a pre-release process, but an integral part of development.”
Catch Cigniti COO Raj Neravati ‘s Keynote address on “Factors that will drive the future of Software Testing market” at STC 2013 on December 05. STC 2013 is built on the theme of “ Crossing the Chasm: From Assurance to Confirmation”
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Catch Cigniti COO Raj Neravati ‘s Keynote address on “Factors that will drive the future of Software Testing market” at STC 2013 on December 05. STC 2013 is built on the theme of “ Crossing the Chasm: From Assurance to Confirmation”
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Business Today lists Cigniti at 728 position among the Most Valuable Indian companies by Market Captialization. Out of 3,146 companies that qualified for ranking, BT picked the top 1000 for the study. The financial parameters for the study considered financial year ended March 2013.
Cigniti brings a holistic approach to its security testing services offerings. A focused group of security test architects, certified ethical hackers (CEH) certified professionals, CISP certified career testers form the core of Cigniti’s security testing services teams.
Software Testing is set to become a $50 billion market by 2020. Lack of career testers grapples the Software Testing industry and IT industry as well. Cigniti is nurturing a fine line of career testers to address the talent gap and aims to capture a lion’s share of the market. (Translated from Telugu)
The evolving list of the “fastest growing” companies demonstrates how quickly and successfully entrepreneurs are able to grow and scale their ideas and challenge industry leaders by rising to the top.
The new transfer pricing rules announced by the finance ministry will help small to medium sized IT companies by providing greater flexibility and certainty in their taxes.
Over the last 5-6 years, India has become one of the leading destinations for outsourcing of Software Testing services accounting for 32 per cent of the total global outsourcing share. Export revenues and the number of employees have doubled over the last four years growing at a CAGR of 20 percent software testing outsourcing market is expected to grow from USD 30 billion in 2010 to USD 50 billion in 2020. India is expected to be the biggest beneficiary of this growth.
The nominations are in the following categories
Green Testing Team of the Year
Cigniti Technologies Vs Cognizant
The Sogeti Best Automation Project
Cigniti Technologies Vs Maveric Systems, Brickendon Consulting, Tata Consultancy Services
The 151 crore Cigniti, the world’s third largest player in its space, has 800-plus people worldwide and plans to add 400 by 2014.
At HSTC 2013, we will not give you ‘gyan’, nor bombard you with jargon. What we promise to do though, is help you understand the evolution of Testing , the present-day scenario and challenges, and the role YOU play in it. We will bust a few myths, we may make some of you a bit uncomfortable, but we will definitely make all of you think.
The implicit asks for a tester today? ‘Agile tester’, ‘scrum master’, ‘functional expert’, ‘business analyst’, ‘architect’, ‘project manager’, hands-on ‘technical engineer’ – the list is daunting!
So how do you equip yourself to meet this challenge?
The webinar will help you understand how to increase the security of your mobile app and provide insights on the common attack possibilities on a mobile. The session also includes a live demonstration of mobile application security testing.
While traditional testing services are increasingly taking a back seat, specialized offerings and independent testing vendors are leading the industry in the age of Software testing 2.0
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The current mobile handset ecosystem is under an invasion and models of the smart phone usage is scattered, the adoption of smart phones is definitely on the rise. The sheer variety and complexity of the accompanying test requirements have added a new dimension to the smart devices that are being rolled out. In fact, smart device testing services seems to define the future of the smart phones, which are estimated to grow to 1.5 billion devices in sales by 2016.
The possibility of ‘unknown’ scenarios in Big Data testing is gigantic when compared to testing techniques for conventional applications. The scope and range of the data harness in Big Data applications will demand new benchmarks of Software Quality Assurance
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Smartphones and mobile Internet have become the de-facto and first point of interface to the external world today. Businesses and consumers are riding on the power of mobile, exposing themselves to a number of mobile application vulnerabilities.
Cigniti’s webinar in collaboration with Techgig.com has been an enriching experience with live demonstration of crucial test processes. Steered by Delivery Manager Kote Bipilli, the webinar was packed with amazing insights into the world of mobile test automation.
To watch the webinar, click here: http://youtu.be/8nV2f8Y6pKw
