Conference Plenary at STeP-IN SUMMIT 2010 (February 2010)

ST Suresh Babu, Senior Manager – Testing Services, GSS America InfoTech Ltd.

The success factor for most of the businesses in IT Industry revolves around Effective Management of Risks and Defects. Organizations endeavor to improve the delivery capabilities / excellence of software solutions by continuously monitoring the effectiveness of processes, tools and methods.

Today most of us can hardly conceive of our life without Internet. It has made our life much more comfortable than it was ever before. Now, at the click of a mouse, the world can be at your fingertips—i.e. if you can use the mouse... and see the screen... and hear the audio—in other words, if you are not suffering from any kind of disability.

The organizations have moved from “assemble a testing team on need basis” to “a focused independent testing team” over years. It is quite natural that the test process to run the organization also has changed drastically to address the entire test life cycle process covering different aspects of process engineering: