测试有没有“钱”途？

测试有没有“钱”途？下面的一些数据应该可以说话：

• The global software testing market is $13 billion (IDC1)

• The size of the outsourced testing services market is approximately $6.1 billion (Dataquest)

• The market for automated software quality tools for distributed environments is approximately $1.2 billion, with a compound annual growth

rate of 14.9% (IDC2)

• Software development is up to 40% of a typical product release budget, and software testing is 40% of the development budget (LogiGear

internal studies3)

• Offshore software testing, application maintenance, software deployment and support services are an over $3.4 billion business (IDC1)

• The national cost estimate of an inadequate infrastructure for software testing is $59.5 billion (NIST4) due to:
- Inadequate integration and interoperability testing
- Inadequate automated generation of test code
- Lack of a rigorous method for determining when a product is ready for release
- Lack of performance metrics and testing measuring procedures

• The potential cost reduction from feasible infrastructure improvements is $22.2 billion (NIST4)

1. Worldwide and U.S. Offshore IT Services 2006-2010, 2006, IDC
2. Worldwide Distributed Automated Software Quality Tools Forecast and Analysis, 2003-2007, 2003, IDC
3. Global Software Test Automation, 2006, Nguyen et. al, Happy About
4. The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing, 2002, National Institute of Standards and
Technology