10+ TCS Testing Consulting Alternatives and Competitors

According to Thomas Reuner, Ovum, outsourcing software testing is changing from a simple staff augmentation strategy (or from a bundled component as part of a broader outsourcing agreement) to a substantial outsourcing category in its own right.

Benefits:

• In-depth outsourcing contracts for testing services have been slow to emerge, but the pipeline shows growing traction.
• Managed services perceptions are becoming muddled as a result of vendor positioning related to outsourcing.
• Building test environments on cloud-enabled infrastructure services is a key component of TCS's positioning of TaaS as services packaged with tools or as an infrastructure-led approach.

In order to set itself apart from the extremely commoditized testing services market, TCS's emphasis is on "assurance services" rather than testing. TCS has optimized its test processes to lower costs and minimize risks, which is reflected by its emphasis on using flexible business models. TCS built its processes around recognized standards such as ISO, CMMi, Six Sigma, and ITIL and audited them with its proprietary test process assessment framework, Tiara (TCS Integrated Assessment Framework for Assurance).