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Newspaper: Viet Nam News
August 26, 2008
This page is translated from orginal Vietnamese version.
 Vietnam has great potential as center of excellence in the field of software testing, according to the USbased software testing company LogGear.
The software testing market is a niche segment within the IT outsourcing market, with global market size estimated at US$6.1 billion in 2005, according to the US-based IT research and advisory Gartner Group. LogiGear Vietnam CEO and President Hung Nguyen said though India is Asia's undisputed market leader of offshore services and China the leading challenger, Vietnam could offer fierce competition in the niche segment.
Software testing is an empirical investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of a software product or service in the context in which it is intended to operate. India's young software testing market, which started around 20001, has an estimated total market size of $1 billion (Meta Group). The industry has created an estimated 40.000 software testing professional in 2008. "Though Vietnam's software testing professionals level is at only 15 per cent of India. The 6,000 professionals in Vietnam will more than triple and grow to 25,000 by the year 2011," said Nguyen. Vietnam's edge would be hinged on its skill-based approach that produces a workforce with advanced software testing and automation skills higher than those of the two other countries, he said. The intent of software testing is finding software bugs or errors to ensure optimum software performance for various industries.
Nguyen said the Vietnam market's viability was based on cost of labor; workforce suitability; political and economic stability; government policies on business and intellectual property protection; and facility in English of its IT graduates and professionals.
LogiGear Corp has been expanding its operations in Vietnam since 2005 as Vietnam is seen as being a favorable location for offshore outsourcing.
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