According to official Vietnamese media Vietnam News Agency reported on August 26, Vietnam will likely to become the world's top software testing center.
Since India and China has been in absolutely dominant positions in Asia's software outsourcing market, Vietnam should develop the development industry in fields suitable for current Vietnam's national conditions.
According to the IT research and case reports released by the Gartner Group, a firm in U.S. market analysis, the economic and trade environment in Vietnam will be suitable for the establishment of software outsourcing testing market. Global software testing market can create 6.1 billion U.S. dollars of benefits each year. India's "young" software testing market began in 2001, and currently it has market of a total of about 1 billion dollars, this industry provided the country with 40,000 professional jobs in 2008
Although the Vietnamese staffs that have professional skills in software testing is only six thousand, which is 15 percent of that in India, but this size will grow to 25 thousand people before 2011.
The survival of software testing market depends on labor, political and economic stability, protection of intellectual property rights, government policy support, IT graduates skilled in English and experts, currently, Vietnamese skills of high-end software testing methods and automation technology is leading than China and India, which is the most significant advantages of Vietnam.
