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Software Testing Practice
and Offshoring
Global forces have changed the way business is conducted today. ese same forces
will change the way business will be conducted tomorrow.
Just 50 years back, most businesses were limited to small geographic locations.
Most of them had a presence in one or more cities. Some bigger businesses were
doing business in more than one state and sometimes doing business in some other
countries as well. But most had a presence within one state alone.
With computers enabling companies to do their businesses in any geo-
graphic area and in as many locations as they wanted, companies have grown ...