MindTree Ties Up with Skytap for On-Demand Testing

21.04.2009
MindTree has announced that it has entered into a global strategic alliance with Skytap. The partnership would enable MindTree's customers to scale test labs on-demand through Skytap's Virtual Lab solution, resulting in reduced IT costs, accelerated lab provisioning, and effective collaboration among global teams.

"This partnership brings together the best of testing and virtual lab solutions to provide cost-effective, on-demand testing services to our customers," said Subodh Parulekar, Co-head -- Independent Testing, MindTree.

Skytap provides testing teams with a complete virtual lab solution over the Web. Enterprises can take immediate advantage of Virtual Lab by utilizing Skytap's library of pre-built virtual machine, OS, and application images, or uploading existing virtual machines, builds, test scripts and ISOs into the Skytap environment. Enterprises can scale lab resources up and down as needed from Skytap's pool of virtualized infrastructure. Lab operations can be tightly controlled through a full-featured virtual lab management application. As a result, Skytap Virtual Lab provides enterprises with faster lab deployment, additional time for planning and execution, and improved collaboration across globally distributed teams.

"The partnership between Skytap and MindTree provides customers with a significant competitive advantage by enabling them to quickly scale lab infrastructure to meet tight testing and development deadlines," said Skytap Chief Product and Marketing Officer Steve Brodie. "Companies using Virtual Lab solutions across a wide range of testing scenarios have improved control and flexibility, achieved significant gains in productivity and dramatically reduced costs."

MindTree's Independent Testing business unit has about 2000 members and offers complete breadth and depth of software testing services to customers in the Enterprise IT and Product Engineering segments. The key value propositions of the business are the industry domain knowledge, usage of frameworks, predictability of testing, and dedicated career paths for the testers. The offerings include end-to-end testing services like setting up a Test COE , functional testing and specialized testing such as test automation, performance engineering and security testing.