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The global market for software and systems testing services will reach over $56 billion in 2013, say researchers at Ovum.

 

Testing services will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.5 percent from 2008 to 2013, faster than most other IT services, but at slower rates than the industry has seen in recent years.

 

Outsourced testing will grow faster than in-house testing because of greater cost savings, time-to-market and quality offered by outsourcers. Outsourcing currently accounts for 53 percent of the total worldwide testing services market and will reach 58 percent in 2013.

 

The outsourced testing market is being driven by firms in India, which is quickly establishing itself as the home of outsourced testing. As you might expect, that means trouble for higher-priced suppliers in North America and Europe, unless those suppliers move their own testing services offshore as well, Ovum (News - Alert) says.

 

All of the tier-one IT services vendors with test services including IBM (News - Alert), Capgemini and HP-EDs have offshore testing capacity in India, as do a growing number of onshore independent testers such as SQS, Ovum says.      

 

Still, the worsening global economy will impact the worldwide market for testing services in the short run, Ovum believes. Still, testing will grow faster this year and in 2010 than most other IT services.