In today’s fast growing technological world, software applications play a crucial role in all the large scale communication systems and in the implementation of B2B marketplaces and exchanges. The Quality Assurance industry has changed dramatically over a decade. One of the most apparent changes is the growth in automated testing. On the other hand, there has also been a huge increase in the use of cloud-based testing and agile testing. The professionals who create automated tests are becoming highly important.
Due to the ever-changing processes of software development, it is important to constantly change testing approaches in order to coordinate with the rapid development processes. Agile testing is a paradigm shift and major challenges have to be faced by the QA teams when shifting from traditional testing methods to agile. Agile software testing methodologies allow QA teams to support continuous integration, continuous delivery and enable or disable features by configuration settings.
Most software development enterprises position testing as a centralized function to support software development. Here, a group plans testing activities and a group performs testing adhering to detailed step-by-step directions. In order to get adequate results in testing, some firms insist on QA teams following step-by-step directions. But this eliminates the ability of the testers to react, learn and change their approach. It’s the kind of thing that happens when any unexpected change is made to an application.
One alternative to detailed step-by-step direction is to have a QA team to design, execute and report test results while learning and adapting. With the advent of cloud-based service providers, it has been noted that there is a constant increase in the number of firms using virtual test environments to reduce in-house testing costs.
The traditional way of testing is losing ground and is not able to meet the needs of competitive companies. Over a decade or so, software testing has frequently been outsourced extensively due to rising resource wages, increase in the cost of relevant infrastructure and currency fluctuations. The skill set required for a QA team should be much wider than many people can imagine as the tester’s mindset is crucial to successful automation.
The QA team must have a detailed understanding of testing techniques, principles, practices and should be able to make crucial decisions about what, how and when to automate. To be called an effective QA Team, the team must have a solid understanding of agile methods and they should use their skills to work closely with business.
With the rise of test automation, it has been noted that a lot of manual testers are moving towards automation — many manual test engineers see test automation as an important factor to their future career. This has led a huge number of manual testers to learn how to code while many software testing enterprises are retraining their testers to become automation test engineers.
There is a widely held belief among start-up testers that test automation is the major thing to learn. Gone are those days when start-up testers exhaustively executed tons of simple test cases without carrying specific skills but now, even a junior tester is expected to carry a wide range of specialist skills.
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