How To Restructure Your Testing Process To keep up With The Latest Technological Trends
If you have been a regular follower of our newsletters and blogs you would agree that software testing trends are changing at a rapid pace and it is of utmost importance to keep track of these changes if you need to deploy quality products in a jiffy. In the initial days, it was a bit challenging to incorporate the use of technologies like Artificial Intelligence(AI), Robotic Process Automation(RPA) in the testing process. But now these technologies are helping the testing process to reduce the product deployment time at a substantial rate. In the current competitive market if organizations fail to adapt to these changes and restructure their testing approach then it would be difficult for them to suffice the customer demands.
This article on ways to restructure your testing process will help you understand the changes required in the testing process and continue to deliver high-quality applications with reduced time-to-market.
So let’s begin.
- Keep track of the latest technological happenings.
Having a Research and development (R&D) team is slowly becoming an industry norm and more job roles like advocates are been hired to help organizations keep up with the latest industry and technology trends. They also help find ways for organizations to work faster and more efficiently. Keeping up with such trends helps organizations leverage them for their business benefits. For instance, with the high demand for accessible applications, there is a need for rigorous accessibility testing and so testing tools have also integrated these features into their offering.
2. Focus on Training and Skilling
Once you have identified the latest technology and business trends that can be beneficial for your testing process you need to plan a strategy to adopt these changes. A part of this includes training and skilling your team who will be using the latest tools and technologies to implement the changes. In the last few years, we have seen the testers have skilled themselves in DevOps, Continuous Testing, Cloud technologies, security testing, AI testing, and a number of such technologies which help them perform better in the testing process.
3. Implementation of Automation
Implementing Automation can certainly give you that edge in gaining speed in the testing process. Automation should not be limited to using one tool for your test execution, rather it should be looked upon as a practice across different steps in the testing cycle. You can make use of different tools at each testing step that helps you automate that step which further helps you in reducing your time.
Some tools that can assist you in your testing process:
For version control systems you can use tools like Git.
Jenkins can help you achieve continuous integration.
Tools like TestRail, and Jira can help you in Test Management.
Tools like Selenium, Appium, and Cypress can help you in Test automation.
Tools like Informatica and Benerator can help you in Test Data management.
4. Establish better visibility and transparency across teams
For success in the testing process, it is important to have better communication across different teams. Visibility into each other’s work across teams helps each member to provide quick feedback which can help accelerate the testing process. This can also help in clearing roadblocks in the testing process. Similarly, as the team is adopting new tools or technologies each member of the team can contribute to the testing process to make it more efficient.
Conclusion:
The process of adopting new technologies and implementing the same can be challenging. However structured and effective implementation of the above steps can help reduce bottlenecks of the testing process. Once the process is set and repeated multiple times, organizations can start seeing immediate benefits from this approach.
In this article, we have covered the importance of tracking the latest technology trends and establishing an R&D team. We also saw the need to implement automation and increase visibility across teams in the project.
At Testrig Technologies, we have in-house Testing Centers of Excellence(TCoE) where our QA experts keep track of all the latest happenings in the industry to improve the Web, Mobile, Performance, and Security Testing processes and deliver high-quality products to our clients.
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