Recognized for StORM™ Tools which reduces test case development effort by 30%
Bangalore, India, December 14, 2007
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd (NYSE: WIT), announced today that it has been awarded the Software Testing Best Practice Award by International Institute for Software Testing (IIST), USA.

Wipro’s Testing Services division has won this prestigious award for its innovation - the creation of a statistical tool based on Orthogonal Array (OA) that helps test execution teams in reducing the cycle time of the test phase. The OA tool is one of the many tools under Wipro’s proprietary tools suite StORM™ (Statistics, Operations Research, Matrix) which helps reduce test case development effort by 30%

Dr Magdy Hannah, Chairman and CTO, IIST said, “The Software Testing Best Practice award is one of several other initiatives that IIST has for advancing the software Testing profession and encouraging companies to adopt best practices. It is also a great way to get companies to share their best practices with the rest of the software testing community.”

Applications from 36 medium to large organizations were reviewed by a board of judges. Some of the criterions set were significant improvement in areas such as test management, requirement management and test execution.

“We are very pleased and happy to receive this award. This is a testimony to our efforts in ‘Applying Innovation’ to deliver solutions that offer tangible business value to our customers, which is the core of Wipro’s value proposition” said Mr. Gangadharaiah C P, Senior Vice President & Worldwide Head of Testing Services.

Wipro OA tool is a statistical tool which is based on the premise that most of the errors occur when two parameters interact. It ensures testing of all pair-wise interaction in a scientific and methodical way. It requires the input in the form of factors and levels. This reduction of the entire application in the form of factors and levels is the most crucial step involved and requires a deep understanding of the application. After analyzing the application in terms of factors and levels it generates the optimized set of combinations. These combinations ensure 100% pair wise coverage and to lesser percentage more than two parameter interactions. The output is taken as a base to generate the test cases, also if required some additional test cases can be added to offer additional coverage to critical applications.

Wipro Technologies has over 10+ years of experience in independent Testing Services and is the largest third party offshore testing service provider globally.. To its credit, it has set-up the first Wi-Fi pre-certification & certification lab in India and has strategic alliances with leading tool vendors like HP, IBM, Microsoft, Compuware, to name a few. Consistent knowledge management along with Six Sigma & Lean initiatives have led to ready-to-use Point Solutions, Frameworks and industry specific Centers of Excellence (CoEs).

About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally.

In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange.

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