SOFTWARE TESTING TRENDS IN 2016

As a new year starts, it’s time to focusing on new trends. Software testing isn’t immune to new developments and companies must keep these in mind as they put in place practices and processes. To assist you with this, here are some software testing trends to keep in mind.

1, Immense Test Automation Development

• -    Increasing use of automation even when code is in a high state of flux.
• -    Automation tools that support full end to end testing
• -    Increased penetration of automation into both development and operation
• -   A rise in technical skills levels of testing organizations in support of automation engineering

2, More use of Mobile Device Test Farms

• -    Key trend in mobile app comparability testing is the rise of mobile device farms in house or in the cloud.
• -    Maintaining a highly dynamic infrastructure in house is simply untenable for all but the largest enterprise.
• -   Supporting hardware and software for instant configuration, provisioning and collaboration between testers and development, which makes their use far more efficient than in house setups.

3, Proactive Software Testing

• -  Reduces the jolts to production cycles that occur when software is created and evaluated by distinct groups in distinct time phases.
• -  User experience, availability and performance issues will surface sooner and result in the delivery of software and more closely reflecting customer requirements

4, Focus on Security Testing grow intense

• -    Dynamic, run time test cases to expose vulnerabilities
• -   Static tests using automated code analysis tools during development
• -    Manual code scrubs to expose security issues that automated tools may miss
• -    Penetration testing, which uses a combination of manual and automated techniques to compromise apps and hardware and then further expose inner points of vulnerability

5, Need for Test Data Management gets multiplied

• -   Rise of the Test Data Manager role in leading software organizations.   
•   Enable data driven testings.
• -  Application of security testing, broader use of test automation, cloud based testing services and an elevation of the role that test data management plays.