Testing as a service gaining ground through to 2018

TechNavio, a tech-focused research firm, says cloud-based testing-as-a-service (TaaS) is expected to grow at a CAGR of 32.71% from 2013 to 2018. TaaS helps organisations transfer their testing facilities to third-party service providers, and reduces operational time and cost.

The new Global TaaS Market 2014-2018 indicates that companies are relying more on testing services and are increasingly outsourcing these services to avoid poor execution, slow test turnaround, or excessive software lifecycle costs. 

“Enterprises outsource testing services to core vendors to reduce product development costs. By outsourcing the testing services to a specialist vendor, the company can leverage the vendor's expertise to develop better quality products for less. In addition, by outsourcing the software testing function, enterprises reduce operational costs, hiring costs (skilled professionals), and infrastructure costs as vendors take care of the entire testing process throughout the product life cycle,” says Faisal Ghaus, Vice President of TechNavio.

Key vendors mentioned in the report include Capgemini, HCL Technologies, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, and Wipro.