6 TRENDS CURRENTLY RESHAPING SOFTWARE TESTING INDUSTRY 2017
Software testing play a huge role in creating user-friendly and functional day-to-day software. Mindful of the following trends which are reshaping the software testing industry, they will be in a position to tune themselves with latest products, ultimately delivering the best they can to their customers and employers as well.
Open Source Tools Will Take the Businesses By Storm With modern enterprises registering a need for software practices like Test Automation, DevOps, Agile and Effective Management of Software Tests and Defects, the future lies in the implementation of open source tools.
The Perfect Blend of QA and Developer Roles The emergence of DevOps will pave way for a unified job description . Developers will begin to handle testing tasks as well, as part of their ordained duty. The innate tendency of a developer to identify his own bug will pave way for this merger of job responsibilities.
Mobile Testing – The Champion of Test Automation It is through effective mobile testing practices that players will reap the benefits of compatibility, functionality and performance in tandem with software testing. Open-source frameworks and Mobile DevOps further expand mobile test automation space.
Performance Engineering – The New Name for Performance Testing Demonstrating the need for consistency of performance across multiple platforms, the numerous devices that are currently in vogue will bring in the new nomenclature of “performance engineering” in place of the ageold name of “performance testing”.
Testing Big Data – The “Big” Change
It is through precision-based analytical tools, frameworks, techniques and other high-tech mechanisms that voluminous data sets will be tested for their performance and compatibility. With the rise in patronage of big data platforms, the path is clear for big data testing.
Internet of Things (IoT) – Universal Need for Sharing Information With internet causing a rush of information to be shared and analyzed by the second, the demand of users to go in for IoT testing comes to the fore even before they choose a product. This will weed out products which are failed in terms of effectiveness, performance and security.
The above-mentioned trends will lead to a conscious allocation of higher IT budgets both for software testing and quality assurance; about 40% of their annual budget. This help testers and developers focused at offering products of impeccable performance.Â
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