Software testing has become a top-level technology that affects the way in which the organization develops, delivers, and operates the software. As the world is becoming digitalized, the software testing industry continues to be a central element leading to successful product and projects outcomes.
Let’s have a look at the topmost software testing trends that one should anticipate in 2022:
Agile and DevOps
Most organizations have adopted Agile as a response to rapidly changing requirements and DevOps as a response to high demand for greater speed. It is also known for rules and tools to integrate the development and operation activities also to reduce the time to the entire process. Developers have been using these DevOps techniques to automate processes such as CI/CD pipelines to get work done faster.
Automation Test
In order to implement DevOps practices, testers will need to learn how to use these new tools. Most regression testing should be automated, as test automation is considered a barrier of DevOps. Before committing to any automation efforts, it is important to prove that the selected tool works successfully in a customer environment. This develops customer trust, reduces cost, and faster regression cycles result in outstanding quality.
Artificial intelligence (AI) Machine learning techniques in testing
In the world of QA, Artificial intelligence(AI) and Machine learning (MI) techniques are becoming active to help testers in their daily activities. Artificial intelligence is used in several stages in the testing process and the application of AI/MI in testing is still in the early stage of development. Machine learning is also a part of software automation testing and testers could use ML techniques to automate regression test cases and even detect software bugs. The major advantage of adopting AI/MI techniques is that it reduces the cost and saves time.
Test Environment
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), has more software operation in a sustainable number of different devices, operating systems, and hardware. To manage the domain freely, the QA teams need to develop skills that enable them. The big challenge to the testing team is ensuring good test coverage across a lot of environments. So we will see rapid growth in using containerized and cloud-based test environments.
Testing Centers of Excellence(TCoE)
Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE) is no longer the responsibility of a single tester who will do all the work by themselves on their computer. It is a structured group inside a company that helps the teams to find and integrate the methods of creating for testing a high-quality standard. Organizations are shifting to an agile model that enhances the core skills of testers, increases agility, reduces testing cost, and improve test automation effectiveness throughout teams. Organizations also look for experienced testers to help them to establish the Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE) and are started to understand their values.
Mobile Automation Testing
The trend of automation testing for mobile applications continues to expand. This trend is operated by the need to shorten the time to market. The mobile automation testing knowledge is very essential to the overall success of the QA function. Mobile automation testing tools allow testers to execute automated tests on real devices.
Companies need to remain aware of the development in the industry. The infrastructures will become self-healing and there will be more automation in testing. These software testing trends are an essential guide for you to plan, learn and practice.
