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Enthusiasm met testing leaders @ SiliconIndia SoftTec
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Enthusiasm met testing leaders @ SiliconIndia SoftTec
Pune: Almost all the organizations today are faced with the herculean aspect of testing and related issues. The challenges in the testing arena often fumble the smartest of the professionals. SiliconIndia's SoftTec event helps address the issues and concerns related to testing. The latest edition of the event that took place in Pune met with overwhelming response from the audience. The event brought several testing leaders of the industry in one platform and leveraged them to help professionals cope with changing conditions and the need to optimize every effort. In Naveen Gurusiddaiah of Micro-Focus view, "Testing will be more aligned with business needs. Test Automation will become more important as quality will become everybody's responsibility." On the same lines, Charles Thangamuttu of PTC says, "In today's scenario where more and more companies are adopting and implementing agile practices, it is important the testing is also agile enough, to keep up with the rapid changes happening through the iterative development. In order to accomplish this, the investment that needs to be made is in test automation." As it becomes an imminent process, the next step would be the globalization of the testing processes. Amita Vaidya of Patni maintained, "Globalization is the complete process of making your application available in multiple languages. There will be two phases of globalization testing as I18N and L10N. end to end Globalization testing in Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages using Pseudolocalization technique." The event witnessed over 400 attendees, who were enlightened about the future of testing from the industry leaders' mouth. The theme for the event was 'Bridging the Gap; Meeting New Challenges'. The inaugural keynote was given by Shankar V, Associate Vice President, Head Testing Practice, Zensar Technologies, who shared his thoughts on the need for Testing to evolve under the dynamics of the market changes happening today. "I see lot of potential amongst the group where we can learn and leverage best practices across domains. Instead of reinventing and building every time, look across the domains and you would see that most of the problems we are facing have been solved earlier. So, just learn and try to leverage," says Chintha Srinivas of Sabre Holdings. A new approach to detect defects during testing is by using Hypothesis Based Testing (HBT). Speaking on the same, T Ashok, Founder and CEO, STAG Software said, "HBT is a personal test methodology that enables rapid defect detection. Sharp goal clarity, purposeful activities, wide net are vital for good testing and cannot typically be speeded up by mere tools or the organizational process." Extensive topics like Cloud Computing to be future of software testing or Test Management through Open Source Interfaces were discussed upon by the leaders in the event. Taking the dais to speak on Binary and Protocol Security Assurance, Mahesh Saptarshi, Technical Director, Symantec said, "Security assurance is often an overlooked aspect of software quality. From buffer overflows to sql injection and arbitrary code execution, many of the vulnerabilities can be exposed by application modeling and deriving attack scenarios based on the assets so identified. The 3rd party modules and undocumented network protocols were identified as areas to focus for security testing." Overall, the SoftTec Conference covered the entire array of the testing space in IT with specific sessions delving deep one or the other type of specialized testing. This helped the attendees take away a lot from the event, making their venture into the event a worthwhile one. In the words of Dr. Mandaar B. Pande Wipro Technologies, a couple of takeaways from the conference would be, "It covered the whole gamut of the Testing space in IT. There were sessions which delved deep into specifics of one or the other type of specialized testing, which were useful. Overall a very well organized conference."

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