[Testing] Sanjay.zalavadia:
As more people around the world trade in their desktop PCs for smartphones and tablets, businesses are looking for ways to improve their approach to enterprise mobility. For many, this trend presents an opportunity to wring more productivity out of their workforce by allowing employees to use their personal devices on the job. Organizations that employ bring-your-own-device policies often report higher levels of employee satisfaction and performance. To optimize these efforts, however, businesses often need to develop their own software that is customized to meet their staff's specific needs. These circumstances have led to a boom in internal enterprise mobility projects, driving the need for better development and quality assurance practices within companies. Which is why, interest in enterprise mobility will only increase in the foreseeable future.

Mobile device adoption rates continue to be robust, and more resources for in-house development are available than ever before. For instance, last year Samsung announced the debut of its latest software development kit. Similarly, many businesses that wish to take full advantage of this resources and bring newer products to the market will need to bolster their internal programming and QA teams, as in-house projects are better suited to address the specific demands of enterprise end users. Keeping an eye on offshoring trends is a must.

Another trend that company leaders should take note of is the rising interest in offshoring. These practices have seen their popularity increase in recent years, as more organizations look to reduce their operational costs by outsourcing software development or testing responsibilities to overseas teams. This trend may be contributing to the growing number of tech professionals residing in regions outside of North America. According to InfoQ contributor Abel Avram's analysis of a recent IDC study, there are now more than 36 million professional developers, hobbyists and workers with ICT skills spread across the globe. Of those individuals, approximately 11 million work primarily as software developers, with 37 percent residing in the Asia-Pacific region.

Meanwhile, fewer than one-third are currently working in North or South America. While the United States has the largest share of both professional and hobbyist software developers of any single country, China and India are not too far behind, holding the second- and third-place rankings, respectively. With the race to accumulate tech-savvy employees gathering steam, taking advantage of every region's talent pool will be vital moving forward. However, it is no secret that there are many logistical challenges to managing application development and deployment since testing teams are now spread across the world.

Time zone differences, in particular, can prevent individuals from sharing updates and providing new information with programmers and testers located in other countries. If these circumstances are not addressed redundancies and oversights may occur, derailing a company's production schedule. A high-quality test management system will alleviate these concerns, however, by providing a single portal for team members to upload important test cases, scripts, metrics, reports and other information. For example, if software testers located overseas want to share the results of their latest tests with on-premises employees, they can simply upload that information in real time through a test management tool. Those records will then be readily available to in-house programmers. These capabilities reduce operational headaches for QA management and ensure that a production stays on track.