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Smartesting bets on India's automated testing market
By Eureka Bharali
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 17:06 IST
Bangalore: "Only 20 percent of the testing done by IT firms is automated. The remaining are all manual," says Michel Guez, Managinging Director, Smartesting Software Solutions (India). The lack of automated testing in the IT sector triggers Paris based Smartesting, an automated testing solution developer, to bet on this market. The firm kicked off its operation in India partnering with Bangalore based software automation firm, Qualitree in 2007 to rope in the top notched IT firms like Infosys, Wipro by indulging in Proof of Concept (POC) testing projects.
The company which started its operation one year back has been scrutinizing the $700 million testing market of India. Commenting on their tendency to move to East instead of West, Emmanuel Verge, Product Marketing Director (global) says, "We are going slow, but steady and doesn't want to make a big entry."
"However, only challenge that comes from the Indian market is the firms' approach, which is mostly short sighted, thus creating lesser opportunities for 'fixed bid contracts'," observes Qualitree CEO K. Gopinath.
The company is targeting to generate a turnover of two million Euros by 2010, and then gradually expand its base to other prospective places. Smartesting has also plans too expand the sales and testing team in Bangalore.
