The recently released “CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN QA OUTSOURCING REVIEW 2016-2017” report reveals a few key facts about the trends in software development and testing quality assurance on the CEE markets. Having a sensitive and demanding customer in mind, the QA Outsourcing review highlights the growing weight of early testing, automated testing, cloud-based testing and mobile testing. Romania has its own particularities, as presented below.

• The most prominent approaches on software testing as revealed on the studies panel are back-box testing, grey-box-testing, dynamic testing, specification based testing and white-box testing.

 

• The testing services that use to be outsourced to the respondents’ entities are the following: regression testing, functional testing, usability, performance and automated testing, closely followed by compatibility, cross-browser and accessibility testing.

 

• The top vertical markets serviced by Romanian QA provider companies prove to be entertainment, sport, media, broadcasting, Hospitality & Travel, manufacturing, retail, wholesale, consumer goods, as well as utilities & facilities.

 

• The traditional business partners of Romanian ICT companies remain roughly the same for QA services too: USA (13%), UK (13%), Germany (12%), The Netherlands (9%), Canada (8%), Austria (8%), Switzerland (7%) and France (7%).

 

• English, French, German, Romanian and Hungarian are notably the main QA service provision languages.

 

• In terms of methodology, Romanian QA teams work rather under SCRUM, Waterfall and AMDD (Agile Model Driven Development).

 

• The test techniques, test automation and performance testing tools are quite diverse.

 

• The average cost of the man-hour for standard software testing project (in USD) revealed by the CEEOA QA OUTSOURCING REVIEW 2016/2017 vary up to 34.5 USD/man-hour.

 

• Most of the companies provide a balanced competency improvement programme mixing internal and external training with certification and conferences.

 

For more information on the finding for Romania or other CEE countries, you may consult the official CEEO webpage.