Philadelphia, United States, London, United Kingdom and Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India:

AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company today announced that it is collaborating with IDC, the leading analyst firm to co-host a webinar titled ‘Leveraging Independent Testing Services for Higher Quality and Efficiency’.

The 45 minute webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM EDT / 4:00 PM-4:45 PM BST/ 8.30 PM – 9.15 PM IST. Rona Shuchat, Program Director of Application Outsourcing (AO) Services, IDC will be the speaker while John Carmody, Vice President and Head of Americas operations, AppLabs will moderate.

The interest in independent testing is on the boom and many preferred testing models are evolving. The choice of testing vendors are also in abundance for enterprises considering outsourcing of testing. This includes pure-play testing service providers with their global/regional/country focus, dedicated business to testing services – from test strategy, to test planning and full spectrum of test delivery models with dedicated TcOEs, to cloud test providers.

Rona will discuss what are the most important challenges on a CIOs mind, what are the options being considered, and why some options are better than other.

Salient takeaways for CIOs and other decision makers:

• Quality Assurance Challenges and Maturity Curve

• Testing Service Adoption Trends

• Customer Feedback on Steering Toward Successful Engagements

• Options and Considerations in Testing Services Provider Selection

• Essential Guidance

To register for this webinar, please visit

http://applabs.com/html/Leveraging_Independent_Testing_AppLabs.html