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Software testing has come a long way from the early days. In the Waterfall model, testing was the last activity to be performed. It was many times a rushed, unplanned activity done after coding was complete and before product release.

Nowadays things have changed. Testing is a methodical, planned activity performed at every stage of the development cycle, not just at the end of the cycle. New technologies, web based applications, cloud computing, changing requirements, demands from the customers have given rise to new methods of testing.

Testing is not an activity that is performed only within an organization by a group of testers. It has become global with outsourcing companies offering custom solutions and manpower for testing. Testers can be spread across the globe testing over the internet.

Androids, iPADs, smartphones have opened up a whole new area of Mobile Application testing. Internet applications have seen a rise in Security testing. Other trends that have become popular are Test Driven Development (TDD), Cloud Testing, Business Intelligence, Crowd Sourcing, Test data Management.