Indian Outsourcing Companies Rely On Customers To Conduct Performance Testing

Further to my recent article on jobs in the US vs. outsourcing, I chatted with a marketing professional at a leading Indian outsourcing company yesterday. Once the software requirements have been gathered from a customer, every other aspect of the development process can be outsourced overseas, except for performance testing of the application in the customer’s application environment.

Where performance testing is conducted, if the outsourcing company owns the entire development life cycle, the performance testing is conducted in country, development people are sent out or customers take care of this issue for themselves. Typically, if an application project is outsourced, the one point of opportunity for American testers is on the performance testing of the web applications in the customer’s environment.