Report Date: January 2011 The total market for test management and functional and load/stress automation declined by 6.6% in 2009, to just under $1.3 billion. Part of this was the disruption in the market from Micro Focuss acquisition of Borland and Compuwares software quality assets. Although the market declined, several of the smaller vendors in this Magic Quadrant had significant growth, with many doubling in revenue. In general, the traditional (client/server and Web testing) market is very stable, with a clearly defined pecking order established. We expect to see continued acquisition activity, as vendors acquire to address new application architectures and fill out overall application life cycle management (ALM) positions (see "MarketScope for Application Life Cycle Management"). There is room for market growth in the number of people using these tools, and we expect that most enterprises will have products from multiple vendors in this Magic Quadrant. We also expect that the market will see an overall return to growth during 2011, although lower - cost offerings may offset this. This comes from a lack of standardization of tools and practices in IT organizations, as well as the need to support legacy and emerging composite application technologies.
Mentions: HP, IBM, Oracle, Micro Focus, Microsoft, iTKO, Soasta, Worksoft, Crosscheck Networks, Parasoft, Green Hat, Tricentis, Original Software, SmarteSoft, SmartBear Software, Seapine Software
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