Industry leaders enlighten testing professionals @ SiliconIndia SofTec
By siliconindia   |   Friday, 17 December 2010, 13:46 IST
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Industry leaders enlighten testing professionals @ SiliconIndia SofTec
Mumbai: 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 Mumbai 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 the view of Hemant Satam, Associate Vice President, Datamatics, who spoke about Automation framework around Open source technologies "There are several opportunities and possibilities using open source in automation testing; having a completely planned and thought about framework will help us to leverage the benefits in a way that we can increase the ROI of automation testing beyond acceptable levels .We need to understand the spread of these initiatives, which include integration of various applications within our eco system including other products used in organizations and collaborating with systems that may not follow an open source architecture." 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'. "Conference was well organized across the testing community targeting a good mix of corporate and college audience to create and nurture large spread of knowledge in various dimensions of testing. It gave a good insight and visibility into domain specifics and well and non functional aspects of test coverage. It was very well supported by platinum and co-sponsors in multitude of value added products and solutions in modern testing community. Was very well focused on presentations by the subject experts in their respective arenas gave confidence in segregated world of testing solutions products and services." says Ankur Damle Senior Manager at Accenture. 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 is 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 An optimum approach to n-tier architecture application testing Sagar Patankar, Practice Manager, KPIT Cummins Infosystems said, "Time to market has become key focus while maintaining High Quality of Service for n-tier architecture testing to ensure high defect containment has become a necessity. An optimum approach with use of Testing accelerators provide the speed and agility to achieve high quality n-tier architecture testing with some of key testing accelerators covered during the session are Test case optimization, Planned % distribution of unit tests, Integration tests, GUI functional tests across n-tier application, Performance and load testing approach, Script less automation testing. Focused on the contribution of Smartesting in the alignment of the test repository with the business needs, Michel Guez, Managing Director of Smartesting says, "Smartesting is a software product vendor that offers a model-based testing solution. This solution enables organizations to produce functional tests that faithfully reflects their business needs and provides a very effective maintenance of these tests all along the application life cycle. By so doing, Smartesting goes beyond testing, towards certification of the IT." Overall, the SoftTec Conference covered the entire array of the testing space in IT with specific sessions involving 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.

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