The Hindu Business Line : NetScaler to do most development testing here

THE Indian arm of US-based networking solutions provider NetScaler Inc. is increasingly becoming a critical component of the company's product testing activities.

With nearly two-thirds of the company's global test development team located out of India, nearly 85 per cent of development testing is conducted in its Indian facility.

According to Mr Steven Yung, Senior Director, Development Test Engineering, NetScaler, going ahead 90 per cent of the work will be outsourced to India.

While there is a need for more integrated solutions for the network infrastructure that would combine features such as traffic management, load balancing, caching and optimisation, NetScaler is looking to build an inventory of 1,00,000 test cases which would help the company to work on such solutions.

"The Indian centre is strategic for us, with NetScaler looking to build the inventory cases from here," Mr Yung told Business Line.

Currently NetScaler has an inventory of 40,000 test cases and is getting primed up to build the database to 70,000 test cases over the next six months. Spanning the gamut of testing functional tests, stress tests, performance tests, interoperability tests and integration tests, the Indian development testing team also works on test automation, tools development and development engineering.

The "inventory will cover all types of testing. We have also developed a proprietary automated testing system which helps to shorten the time-to-market for products," Mr Yung said. The importance of the Indian team is reflected in the fact that NetScaler expects 85 per cent of the (inventory) cases to be built from India.