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Thursday, 02 July 2009 15:09

We need to reboot your doctor, please press “CTRL-ALT-DELETE”

Just imagine that you are men in his thirty and feeling not well, fatigue, nauseas, vomiting and a high body temperature. Your doctor has diagnosed as being pregnant and not with a flue. Most likely the doctor is going to ask you if you've missed a period for a week or two…. In this cases you didn’t have the worst doctor in the world, you’ve actually encountered a bug in your medical software at home.

This is a non-existing bug in a software system that’s doesn’t exist however these day’s such application’s are coming fast. Last year at the Eurostar convention we already looked forward with James Whittaker at Microsoft Healthcare Vision

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 07:01

Looking forward to the new outscource destinations

For long India has been considered as the world's top outsourcing destination. Not any more it seems. A latest study by Black Book of outsourcing on top 25 riskiest locations for outsourcing has as many as eight Indian cities. The reasons given are broadly terrorism, pollution and geopolitical issues.

A separate Black Book of outsourcing study (released simultaneously) lists 25 safest offshoring locations. Incidentally, not even a single Indian city figures in the safest list.

Here's over to the top 10 riskiest outsourcing destinations:

1. Capital city of Colombia tops the list of riskiest outsourcing destinations according to Black Book of Outsourcing. Corruption and organized crime are at the highest in Bogata. The country's unstable currency is also regarded as a reason why companies may find it going tough. Other issues that Black Book Outsourcing highlights are transnational & geopolitical, unsecured & unprotected networks, infrastructure, technology & telephone and terrorist or rebel target threats. Besides these, uncontrolled environmental waste and pollution and legal system immaturity also form part of reasons why companies may not consider Bogato as an ideal outsourcing location.

2. At no. 2 on the riskiest outsourcing destinations list is Thailand's Bangkok city. Country's unstable currency, unsecured & unprotected networks, infrastructure and immaturity of the country's legal system are the factors that make the city a risky destination for outsourcers. According to Black Book of Outsourcing, Bangkok also has a high corruption and organized crime rate. Some other reasons that make it not-so ideal outsourcing destination is uncontrolled environmental waste & pollution and terrorist threats.

Wednesday, 20 May 2009 14:35

Cloud Computing and Testing

We all know that Cloud Computing is one of the hot topics and lots of big companies adopted it already. Every week you can read an article on the internet or in one of the IT magazines. One year ago I started thinking on this subject after reading a number of articles on the activities of Google and IBM. The question that occur to me, can we introduce this also within the testing industry?

To understand the effect of Cloud computing on the delivery model in the testing industry, you need first to know what’s the IT or testing market currently asking and what can cloud computing offer. Let’s first start with why already for a number of years companies see the importance of testing. The current keywords in the business are:

1. Business is demanding earlier Time to Market (TTM).
2. Traceability of the quality through the full process of software development.
3. Complexity of the business chain.
4. New non-functional requirements (compliancy, usability, performance etc.).
5. More efficient ways to buy and deploy technology.

These drivers in the business are speeding up the process and make IT & end to end testing to become a standard utility of everyday business.

The term “Cloud computing” has grown too big to explain in a couple of keywords. In the next paragraph I will explain a little more on the term and background, service offerings, risks and trends for the near future. In the second paragraph I will continue on the impact and possibilities for the testing industry, embrace the use of Cloud computing in it’s full appearance.