Practices of Software Testing Techniques and Tools in Bangladesh Software Industry

For high-quality software development, Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is an important factor where testing is at the base of this factor. Software industry used to maintain software quality using manual testing process, which is being replaced by automated testing tools. Using the automation testing tools, testing has become easier and user-friendly to the software testers. Bangladesh software industry started its journey around three decades ago, and over the 2 decades, it has been flourished. Currently, there are approximately 500 software firms enlisted with the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS). BASIS officially conducted a research on export income that comes from software and service products, and it turned out that Bangladesh exported software worth of $800 million (6,720 corer) last year. With the rapid growth of the economy, there has been an increased internal demand for quality software. Moreover, the government of Bangladesh is patronizing this sector so that Bangladesh can earn foreign exchange from the software export. As a result, growth of the software industry has become essential through utilizing the youth force and applying modern tools and techniques for developing high-quality software. However, in Bangladesh, use of modern and automated testing tools and techniques are far from satisfactory. In this paper, we surveyed 10 leading software firms to assess the current practices of software testing techniques and tools in the industry. We also wanted understand the present barriers and challenges that impeding the industry from producing better products. The responses from each firm have been presented in the beginning, and an overall comparative analysis on the usage of testing tools are given later in this paper. This analysis will assist the professionals in this industry to deeply understand the present situation in Bangladesh.