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Software Testing as
a Commodity
So your software testing is offshored and you reap all the benefits.
So far so good! Your competitors have also done the same. Now what? Where
do you go from here?
Here comes an enlightening thought: What if I find an offshore partner who
can reduce my testing costs further somehow with the same schedule and quality?
Is it possible? What will it take? Well! Here is a solution.
Before mass manufacturing was introduced, society was consuming goods
that were manufactured at small manufacturing sites. Raw material was procured
from local sources. Most of the manufacturing was labor-intensive. A few