The Federal Government (FG) has expressed determination to democratise software testing in the country with a target of 50,000 testers in the next three years, reports ITREALMS.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami made this known while delivering keynote address at a one-day virtual workshop organised by the Nigeria Software Testing Qualification Board (NGSTQB) with the theme “Role of Software Testing in Nigeria’s Digital Economy.”
Seeking cohesive cooperation of the NGSTQB the Minister, represented by the Director General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Kashifu Inuwa said, “We want to see how we can license some of you to provide these services, that means if I develop software, I need to come to a certified tester to make sure I meet the standard quality assurance; all the basic bug-free, and the vulnerability assessment before I am able to sell that software. This will eliminate having the market loaded with software with a lot of vulnerabilities."
“We are working on building the capacity of 1 million developers in the next 18 months and we know we cannot do it alone that is why we need people like you to help us achieve this," said the Minister, stressing that “We are already working with some multinationals to help us on this and we also need the indigenous people to key into this initiative and we also need as many testers as developers.”
Pantami maintained that to achieve the ambitious target of 95 per cent digital literacy, Nigeria will need to build the literacy of citizens in order for them to understand and consume digital services.
“We can only achieve that if we can build error-free software locally so that we can build the confidence of trust of our consumers," he declared.
While disagreeing with the procurement of off-the-shelf software, he asserted that there is no fit-all-size software developed and the only competitive advantage you can have as a business is to have digital offerings; as every company is unique and needs unique software.
Mr. Dare noted that by this effort, "we believe we can achieve this by collaborating with major stakeholders in all different sectors in Nigeria by training and certifying 50,000 software testers in the next 36 months”.
Dr. Usman Gambo Abdullahi, NITDA's Director of Information Technology Infrastructure Solutions said as part of the Agency’s regulatory function, the Agency has established the Software Testing and Quality Assurance framework to help strengthen the software ecosystem.
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