The higher the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a software product, the higher is the sales barrier for it. One of the factors that influences the TCO of a product and which is controllable is the complexity of architecture and design of the product in question. By adopting a Service-Oriented approach to your development efforts, you can positively influence your product and bottom-line.

Success in any Test Automation effort lies in identifying the right tool for automation. A detailed analysis of various tools must be performed before selecting a tool. This paper will guide you in taking a systematic approach towards tool evaluation. The effort and learning obtained during tool evaluation will in turn help during the execution of the Test Automation project.

A robust SaaS product can be built with a minimalist approach. For example, Tomcat, mySQL, XML, Struts 2.0, POJO and JSP are all it takes to build a SaaS application/product using Java technology. And it can work very well too. However, there are additional tools/techniques that can be utilized effectively when building SaaS products.

Software product development methodologies try to improve quality by promoting the tactic of testing early and often. If effort is focused on eliminating defects at the points of error introduction, the time spent on error detection and correction can be significantly reduced.

Outsourced Product Development is a rapidly emerging niche as more product companies consider outsourcing their product engineering work. By partnering with an OPD firm, Independent Software Vendors are able to pay more attention to market analysis, planning and marketing their products.

Globalization, increasing competition and the need for fast time-to-market has driven many product companies to engage in an outsourcing relationship. If you are a software provider evaluating outsourced product development providers, this paper will serve as a guide for you.

Who would have ever thought that developing nations like India, China and Philippines would turn out to be a gold mine for some of the world's largest economies? What started out as an experiment by outsourcing software development activities has become a first-rate practice worldwide.