Hello everyone! I recently came across the World Quality Report (I put the link at the end so as not to frighten you at once with a 50-page report) - a great overview of trends in testing for 2020-2021. And since we at Qameta Software ourselves constantly encounter testing teams who are trying to somehow improve their processes and establish the work of testing, I decided to assess how relevant they are in Russia.
The review is based on 1,750 half-hour telephone interviews with CIOs or technology leaders who identified software quality and testing as critical to business development.
In this article, I took the main trends from the report and tried to evaluate them from the point of view of what is happening in the companies we encounter.
1. DevOps and Agile comes to testing
Truth.
More releases means more testing. More and more companies are trying to integrate testing into the development cycle, built on the principles of DevOps: no time to run hundreds of manual tests, you have to think about automation, infrastructure and processes that will ensure speed, quality and flexibility.
This is why test automation tools are on the rise lately : Cypress , Playwright , Pupperteer and many more. Testers also have to change and learn from the developer's approach: automation, scaling, and sprint work.
2. Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Not yet.
We have been waiting for the arrival of AI for a long time. Well, we are still waiting - now in quality management. Startups are emerging that focus on preparing, generating and analyzing test data or testing services using AI. Don't believe me? Take a look at Applitools , Functionize , Synthesized , TestIM, or ReportPortal .
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