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Steve Fice: Good morning everybody I’d like to add my
welcome to everybody and thank you for being here. A quick introduction to SQS. We are
the largest independent software testing organisation in the world, that’s what we used to say.
Now we talk about the largest independent quality assurance and software testing organisation
in the world. It’s interesting to pick up a lot of things that our out there, that Anthony
was talking about in terms of how the market has changed, particularly around software
testing and I’d like to cover a couple of those as we go through.
So we are a large organisation around the world we’re quoted on the London Stock Exchange
on the AIM market and we’ve seen significant growth in our market over the recent years.
A lot of that is the explosion of the software that is in everything that we do. Anthony
referenced motor vehicles earlier who’d of that I first drove my first car we would
later on be testing software and millions of lines of code in every car that is released
and that’s what we get involved in across all the things that we do.
We have a global presence around a number of markets and what we’re really focusing
on now is a move shifting left in terms of what we provide to the market.
We’re involved in all of these sectors and each of these sectors have the same problems
that everybody here will have, which is how they deal with the existing systems that they
have and build new stuff that’s coming through and merge those two together to provide the
right quality as they expose their systems out to the public. So when you look at this,
software started in ernest really in the pre-70’s and in the time that I came around in the
70’s and 80’s, building that stuff out there. What we’ve seen is as we developed
through that, that the focus on quality has really moved away so what we see is a developer’s
stage, a lot of developers chucking the stuff out there they want it developed as quickly
as possible, they can do it they know what to do, they don’t go back and check with
the business and check what they want they are just developing what they think is needed
out there. So as that reasonability has moved away from
development we’ve had to build into the process a huge test phase at the end and what
typically happens is that test phase gets squeezed, so everybody wants the system to
go live and testing get pushed and pushed in the time scales that it has and that becomes
a huge struggle in order to get the applications live to the right time scales, but also with
the right level of quality. So what we’re doing in terms of partnerships with firms
like Coverity, is moving that back up to the quality, the quality up to the beginning and
making sure that quality is implemented right from the start and not just squeezed in at
the end as a testing phase.