Wipro Testing Services Launches Point of Sale Testing Lab.
Bangalore, India, September 19, 2007
Wipro Technologies, the Global IT Services Business of Wipro Ltd (NYSE: WIT), today announced the launch of a joint solution with HP for Point of Sale (POS) application testing for its retail customers. Wipro Testing Services has also invested in a dedicated POS Testing lab that can take care of the test environment creation for specific POS applications to test retail applications.

As per industry estimates, the total spending on retail applications is expected to grow by nearly $3 billion over the next four years to reach $9.3 billion in 2009 out of which $3 billion will be directed only towards POS software.

“Currently almost 50% of Wipro’s testing services revenue comes from non-technology domains and unique solutions like this will bring tremendous advantage to our retail customers and boost our services sales in Retail segment.” said Mr. Gangadharaiah C P, Senior Vice President & Worldwide Head of Wipro Testing Services. “The solution uses sophisticated methodologies and test frameworks that streamline release management and provide time to market advantage.” he continued.

Wipro's POS Test Solution accelerates automated testing of POS applications. It uses HP Quality Center, which manages and governs quality processes and automates software testing across a business’s IT and application environment, and which can address various business processes of a typical retail POS application.

“For years, Wipro has been a leader in providing innovative automated testing solutions using HP’s market-leading quality and performance management offerings,” said Mr. David Scholtz, vice president, Worldwide Alliances & Channel Programs, Software, HP. “Wipro’s POS Test Solution is a great example of how HP Quality Center can be pre-configured to accelerate the testing of business processes for targeted industry verticals.”

The POS automation accelerator comes with pre-built Business Process Testing (BPT) components required for critical POS business processes automation. The components are compliant with ARTS™. This solution also comes with various common test scenarios built using these BPT components. In addition, it uses Orthogonal array techniques to optimize these scenarios.

The solution also decreases the testing lifecycle for POS applications due to its ready-to-use POS Test cases which are for critical POS business processes such as cash management, inventory management and promotions, which can be easily adapted to test any POS application.

Bhanumurthy B M, Senior Vice President, Retail, CPG & Distribution solutions at Wipro Technologies, said, "Reliability, speed and functionality of Point of Sale are very critical for execution at the store. Wipro enables retailers to bring in reliability and shrink cycle times while enhancing the functionality of their POS systems, through effective use of accelerators.”

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