Quality Assurance organizations have evolved and changed dramatically as business demands have forced IT organizations to establish new policies and procedures to address Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Quality assurance has gone through significant changes over the last decade and Omni anticipates this trend to continue for the future. Factors contributing to these changes are:

• Technology—SOA, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
• Development Methodology—Rapid, Agile, Hybrid
• Application Mobilization
• Bring Your Own Device
• Business Requirements
• Globalization and Economic Conditions

Stakeholder and economic pressures have increased demands on testing to meet key business drivers, including time to market, quality, cost and governance. Quality challenges have increased with the complexity of SOA applications, distributed platform infrastructures and pressures to reduce operational costs while maintaining system performance levels.