Software testing has become one of the fastest-growing areas of corporate IT expenditure, and major changes are taking place in the commercial and delivery models, tool sets and skills requirements as the sector reaches a new level of maturity. Software testing has emerged as one of the fastest-growing areas of the IT market, according to [...]

PC shipments in Western Europe totalled 15.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, a 19.6 percent increase on the same period in 2009, according to a new report from Gartner. According to Gartner research director Ranjit Atwal, “Western Europe showed continued growth in the second quarter, recovering from the slowdown seen in the [...]

Apple will stake out a dominant position in the tablet market in the coming years, according to a report from research firm iSuppli. The report states that the Apple tablet could claim as much as three quarters of all tablet sales this year and continue to carry the top spot in the market into 2012. [...]

SQS is advising testing professionals, currently working through ISEB’s Software Testing Practitioner accreditation, to sign up to final courses before the scheme ends in early 2011. The recommendation follows the announcement that the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has signed an agreement with the UK Testing Board (UKTB), resulting in ISTQB Advanced becoming their [...]

Since England’s exit from the World Cup, there has been a 23 percent increase in employment searches online, according to Experian Hitwise, a leading global online competitive intelligence service. And, it seems the IT community has played its part in this trend. Reinforcing the Hitwise statistic, the UK’s largest IT jobs site, The IT Job [...]

A survey from Sogeti and Capgemini of 30,000 IT professionals has identified cloud-based and agile testing as the key trends in enterprise application quality assurance. ‘The World quality Report 2010-2011’ which surveyed more than 30,000 CxOs, IT directors and QA managers from across the globe highlights that the current focus in testing initiatives is that [...]

Yogesh Singh and Ruchika Malhotra of the University School of Information Technology in Delhi give us a snapshot of the rapidly emerging Indian testing industry. The presence of Indian software industry is very significant and important in the world. Its professionals have shown their effectiveness and leadership in software development with a special focus on [...]

A survey of IT security professionals has discovered that 83 percent consider commercial applications, the ones you buy off the shelf, to be riddled with code flaws and vulnerabilities. 56 percent believe these flaws could allow hackers to exploit these software vulnerabilities; as a result, security professionals are making heavy investments in penetration and code [...]

The findings of the 2010-11 World Quality Report, an in-depth study of enterprise application quality assurance and emerging trends in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), reveals that the majority of companies (60 percent) around the world are hosting up to 50 percent of their applications in a cloud environment. Along with an increase in applications deployed [...]

People in the UK owe £55bn in hidden debts, according to a survey. Nearly a third of people (31 percent) hide the true extent of debt from family members, according to the research by OnePoll for the Post Office. The problems of financial debt are only too well known – but what about the technical [...]