Software testing is an important phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) or Waterfall model and over the period of time, all organizations have recognized its importance. It leads to increase the confidence in the software product and enhance the software quality. But, the Upcoming Software Testing trends keep on changing as we experience new challenges in the software testing and as a result, there are many new techniques which are in place to do software testing.
These techniques are Data-Driven Testing, Behavior Driven Testing, test automation, etc. and many more. The Upcoming Software Testing approach keeps on getting transformed from day to day and the following are the trends of software testing which will transform the future prediction.
1) Advancement from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering:
Software trends are getting changed faster than we could imagine. New testing technologies which are introduced by experts now become obsolete as soon as time progresses. Such technologies get migrated to either a new version or complete new testing approach. For example, earlier QA follows the waterfall model where the QA testing takes place in a phased approach but now such testing has replaced with a complete sprint approach by using the agile software development methodology. Such an approach has completely changed the step by step approach used by the tester in SDLC into modular approach as agile sprints. Therefore, in such an approach there is no testing dependency of step 2 with step 1 and so on. Further, there is a need to advance the test approach from quality assurance to quality engineering. The quality engineering is much focused on the test automation process which can ease the overall process of software testing and involve the end-user for acceptance test as early as possible.
2) Use of Open Source Testing Tools:
The use of the open-source testing tool is preferred by many organizations in order to mitigate the license cost of test automation tools and these tools are available publicly. Such open-source tools can provide services for the execution of testing management and automation, defect management, and DevOps techniques. Open source tools are often customizable to cater to the organization needs and help both non-programmers as well as programmers as they help them to develop the software application in very less time, reduces the overall software development cost, and adds value to the project management.
3) DevOps Adoption to minimize development to Operations Time:
DevOps is primarily focused to reduce the development time to Operations ensuring the appropriate level of the software quality. In DevOps, the testing is conducted in a continuous fashion at all levels. This ensures that the software testers have verified the software specifications and requirement, the tool set is well integrated, and the automation framework has created to support DevOps. Due to the time-saving approach and the high software quality yield, the DevOps is preferred by many organizations recently. Also, it increases the software automation performance as well as integration. Today, there are a large number of DevOps tools which are available in the market to support continuous integrations and automated testing.
4) IoT (Internet of Things) and associated security:
The test automation faces lots of challenges in term of software application security due to IoT i.e. Internet of Things. As the internet technologies are growing every day, test automation faces challenges when the software application is live and available online. There are many security tests which an application should pass through and as we notice software application vulnerability every day, the traditional security test is not sufficient and software testers are expected to think out of the box to ensure the software application is secured to use over the internet. Therefore, the choice is a security tool to test application is not specific and establishing the security preference is not a simple task. It is over served that most of the applications which are recently made go live get security compromised and then they are fixed to make security breach resistant. In order to mitigate the vulnerability, the security test is the must do a thing on top of functional and reliability testing for any software application used over the internet. The security testing should be primarily focused on the end-user authentication process and web interface.
5) API (Application Programming Interface) TEST Automation:
API is used in many organizations which are capable of giving the desired output for the given set of input parameters. Often API testing is done manually by the testers as they feel the accuracy can be achieved through this approach. Manual testing is cumbersome and therefore, the test automation of API testing is recommended. There are many tools available in the market which can test the Web-services with great ease. Use of such a tool could help to save the testing time for the services and also ensure quality testing as manual testing is prone to human error.
6) Big Data Testing Era:
Nowadays Big data and cloud computing are the trending topics over the internet and the demand for big data testing has become multi fold and growing exponentially during the year of 2018 and 2019. The big data testing demands very good analytical skills, framework and a good hands-on the unique technique from the tester. Big data is the process through which companies are retaining a huge volume of data ensuring security, quick analysis, and the software quality. Big data testing is conducted through the following techniques which are expected by the testers to learn. They are Extraction Testing, Ecosystem Testing, Analytics Testing, Transform Testing, and Functional Testing.
Conclusion
Upcoming Software Testing trends are getting changed every day and therefore the software testers are advised to enhance their testing skills and remain up to date with the latest testing techniques and methodologies. The adaptation with the changing software testing trends will provide a better career to the software tester in the future.
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