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If a project runs over time and over budget, then commitment to software testing is the first thing to go by the board. That’s according to the chief executive of one vendor who doesn’t want to be named, as he deals largely with government departments.

“There is a distinct lack of interest in testing in the public sector,” he claims. “There’s far more interest in the private sector.

“It is evident those organisations that have moved to Agile development factor testing into each iteration. Therefore, if things get tight [in time], they can be rapidly addressed, compared to trying to shave three or four months off at the end of a big project [when testing is cut].

It used to be quite common in government projects for the budget to be broken down into percentages for individual components such as testing. But methodologies have changed to a large degree. There’s Agile and there’s iterative, which encompasses such technologies as .NET and Java.

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