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Automated testing reduces test time in Australia for AGL

GUEST OPINION by Thomas Hadorn, Managing Director, Tricentis APAC: Software testing doesn’t get much attention in the media and it’s considered by many as an inconsequential back room element of the IT world, yet it represents nearly 30 percent of IT budgets according to the 2019-2020 World Quality Report. And as we’ve seen from high profile software crashes around the world, there is no doubt it’s even more critical today than ever before.

Software testing and test automation solutions provider LogiGear has opened a new office in Tokyo, its third regional office in the Asia-Pacific region.

Continuous software testing tools provider Tricentis has raised $165 million in Series B financing and says it will use the funds to continue accelerating its market penetration and scale operations.

HP's on-premises Mobile Center mobile application functionality and performance testing software is now available in Australia.

The planned expansion of the University of Ballarat Technology Park is proceeding with IBM's announcement of an Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence for Software Testing that will employ another 150 people.

Typemock, (https://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, released today the results of their developer survey, finding that over 90 percent of developers agree that unit testing is an effective practice to reduce software bugs. Typemock surveyed developers from around the world to gather their opinion on the impact of software bugs. The global online survey showed that developers think that unit testing was more effective in reducing bugs than other practices, such as integration testing, pair programming, and QA. Only 50-70 percent of respondents find them to be effective in reducing bugs.

Micro Focus (LSE:MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, has announced Caliber 10.1, the latest from the company's Borland testing and management product portfolio. The update to the Caliber product line provides even deeper integration between requirements definition and management (RDM) to help organisations increase collaboration between teams, improve the reaction time to changing requirements and reduce costs of producing quality software.

Micro Focus® (LSE: MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, has announced the availability of Silk, a set of integrated modules that provide application lifecycle support for SAP® applications, as well as all other industry requirements for testing in a heterogeneous world. The solution optimises the availability, accuracy, performance and scalability of SAP applications by embedding quality activities throughout the SAP application lifecycle.

Opens London Office to Serve as EMEA Headquarters and a New Data Center for Sales and Support for the Region.

The world's top banks are recognising the role of IT in supporting growth and innovation in an increasingly competitive market where customer demand is becoming ever more sophisticated. Every one of the top 10 global banks, including household names like Barclays, have turned to Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, to help them modernise their business-critical applications. These organisations and a number of other leading banks around the world - such as ABN-AMRO, Banco di Desio, DnB Nor, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, Standard Bank and Standard Chartered Bank -- have adopted more flexible IT environments with a view to improve staff productivity, customer satisfaction and time to market for new services.

Retailer chooses Original Software to reduce the time to market for its business-critical MICROS-Retail Point of Sale system and its ERP and eCommerce applications

Cyara Signs Nuance Network Speech Value Added Reseller Agreement for Australia and New Zealand; Agreement Aimed at Increasing Success of Speech and Voice Biometrics Deployments through Cyara's Innovative Approach to Application Simulation, Testing and Monitoring.

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, today announced a new release of its market-leading Silk integrated testing suite. Micro Focus SilkPerformer, SilkTest and SilkCentral Test Manager (SCTM) 2010 R2 provide a range of new capabilities for software testers and QA professionals, including goal-based testing, configuration testing and extended support for an improved configuration suite, and support for additional development environments and web 2.0 applications.

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, today announced that Mitel, a leading provider of unified communications software solutions, is using Micro Focus' Silk solution to help drive resilience and quality testing across its line of products and solutions. Micro Focus Silk has become an important component of the Mitel software design process and is aimed at ensuring defects are identified and solved long before reaching the customer. As a result, Mitel is able to reduce costs, speed time-to-market and increase customer satisfaction.

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), a leading provider of enterprise application modernisation, testing and management solutions, has announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 'Integrated Software Quality Suites Magic Quadrant' report.

There's a lot of inadequate software around, always has been and always will be. It's vital to budget resources for adequate software testing, not only to check that the required functionality is there but also to ensure that the applications are secure.

While major software development project problems are often the stuff of headlines, it seems they are more the rule than the exception - and we are getting worse at them.

MphasiS will tomorrow open its first 'near shore' integrated development and delivery Centre in Australia at the University of Wollongong. The strategic location of the Centre will enable MphasiS to work closely with the University of Wollongong on a range of initiatives including training, recruitment, and research and development in the ICT space.

The current desire of many organisations to accelerate software development projects has led to an unprecedented level of interest in the Agile software development methodology. But while Agile has dramatically shortened the rollout cycles for new projects, project managers have been warned that it in no way reduces the need for independent software testing.

Software testing organisation Planit is aiming to eliminate a contributor to software project failure in large organisations in Australia and New Zealand with a new training course designed to bolster skills in requirements engineering.