Table of Contents
Introducation 3
The Four Stages of QA Automation
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Initiative
Transformation Roadmap:
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Your Journey To Test Automation
Bringing The Roadmap To Life 8
Software Testing Trends: The Future Of
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Technology Shift
About BugRaptors 16
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Introduction
Over the years, the use of application and software technology has
become a necessity for every business, irrespective of the industry or
vertical. However, the introduction of automation testing and added ROI
enabled the IT sector to experience the necessary boon.
It was nothing about magic, the very concept of quality assurance and
software testing that allows the application, website, and software
development companies to foster new ways to digital transformation.
Though the development companies were earlier investing in manual
testing, the performance unleashed through the test automation was
something that made way for rapid adoption and continued success.
Nevertheless, there is still a huge community of developers and many
companies within the development sector that are reluctant to transform
in the development environment and adoption of advanced automated
testing solutions. But this reluctance is only existent until the developers
and software companies are not able to find an effective way to
implement the futuristic automation testing strategies.
This eBook will help you understand the very concept of automation
testing while walking through the transformation process and strategy
updates that can help improve the software performance. Besides this,
we will take you through a detailed tour of the transformation roadmap
along with the tech trends of automation testing from the future. Let’s
dive.
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The Four Stages of QA Automation
Initiative
1 Initiative Details
2 Business-line Benefits
4 Top-led Benefits
3 A Timeline Overview
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Initiative Details
Initiative details are the self-explanatory descriptions of the project, which
include initiative name, initiative owner, and a detailed description. The
initiative name is usually decided based on the roadmap, while the
description contains the complete detail of the project working through the
talent, test approach, and tools.
However, the owner is the one accountable for the testing project and not
necessarily be the person who is working on the project or has all the
dependencies but is the one who has the entire responsibility of the testing
task until it is completed.
Business-line Benefits
Business-line advantage is the second stage of the QA Automation
initiative that contains the benefits associated with the defined or planned
initiatives. Business-line Advantage caters to milestone objectives and
success metrics associated with the project. Though they all may sound
familiar, there is still a lot of difference between benefits, milestones, and
success metrics. The objective section of the QA Automation initiative
covers all the pain points that are required to be tackled. However, every
benefit is related to the metrics defined and further allows gauging the
progress on the QA task.
Top-Led Benefits
Top-led benefits cover the milestone benefits associated with the task plan,
which aims at strategic alignment of the project and the overall analysis on
the ROI. Moreover, the first section of the QA initiative works on the
qualitative part of the plan, while the ROI section works on the quantitative
section. Since the team leaders or the owners associated with the QA
initiative are concerned about the ROI factor of the QA task, the third stage
of the QA initiative aims at creating benefits for all.
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Timeline Overview
Timeline overview is the last stage of the QA Automation initiative, which
works around the total time span involved in the task. This stage is meant
to work on mapping the plan while walking through the timeline of the
testing process. Also, the timeline overview is focused on identifying all
the dependencies related to the task.
Though it may appear like a consuming task to walk through all these
stages of the QA initiative, the eBook will help you work on the future
roadmap of software testing to attain long-term goals and a chain of wins.
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Transformation Roadmap:
Your Journey To Test Automation
When working on the future of software testing, the initial phase of the
automation may appear daunting, but the investment made in streamlining
the testing process helps to cut off costs involved while decreasing the time
consumed for testing. For instance, when you have spent a significant
amount of time working on defining tools and training, it would only need
you to invest in maintaining the structure of the automated process while
building product expertise.
All in all, the transformation process and aiming at every detail of the four
stages of the QA initiative would help to establish the QA best practices and
a framework that helps you optimize testing collaboration that is
productive for all.
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Bringing The Roadmap To Life
Working on the futuristic roadmap to QA needs extensive focus on the
aforementioned stages of the initiative. However, walking through the
roadmap demands outlining the necessary checkpoints and goals. Since
marking the time required to complete the QA initiative is vital, make
sure you are well informed of the priorities that you need to have while
working on your continuous testing roadmap. Since bringing the
concept to reality needs you to breakdown your journey, here’s how you
can break it into three different sections:
Talent Tools
Test
Even if initiating the process may appear to be a highly consuming job,
make sure you have a good picture of the value that you are planning to
generate working on each stage of the QA initiative as well as the three
T’s of the breakdown process. It will not only help you to be more
precise with the QA reports and measurable transformation but also
accomplishing the plan on time.
Let us quickly dig into the concept of transformation and work on the
three T’s of the accomplishment process.
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Talent
The first stage of the automation testing roadmap begins with locating
talent. Since it is the process of identifying automation knowledge that
can align well with the product knowledge, make sure you have some
solid strategy to locate the right automation testing talent.
Besides this, your team working on the futuristic QA initiative should have
a mindset that promotes automation first ideology. This will help you cut
the unwanted gaps and progress on creating maintainable testing
frameworks with full force.
Test
Once you are done accommodating the right talent for the future of
software testing, the next task that you must foster is working on the test
cases.
If this sounds familiar to automated regression testing, then you are on the
right path. However, the test section of implementing a roadmap to
transformed testing would need you to locate all the flaws and areas of
improvement within the existing framework. In case you are done working
out all the points of improvement, then you are all set to work on a tools
strategy for a boosted business performance.
Tools
When done working on talent acquisition and test cases, the very next
thing that you need to perform is finding the right tools. Make sure you
always work on the devices when need to ensure a progressive approach to
testing. It will not only help you lead your QA initiative in a focused manner
but will also benefit the whole transformation.
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Nevertheless, the Dynamics for testing is a variable factor that changes for
the organization as well as the team working on it. Therefore, it is vital that
you must know your trajectory that must be followed by the team for
effective outcomes.
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Software Testing Trends:
The Future Of Technology Shift
Since the future of software testing automation is all about creating a
frictionless app experience, meeting the goals related to adaptability and
improvement enables more detail-oriented solutions. Every business,
irrespective of the industry, has started to acknowledge the concept of
software testing and QA services to achieve quick release cycles without
compromising on quality.
The QA solutions are not just cost-effective but allow users to integrate
intelligent tech like automation, DevOps, IoT, and mobility into the software
and application world. Since the roadmap to the future of software testing
could not be achieved without working on most optimized tech solutions,
it is necessary that all the trends related to the future of software testing
should be understood and accommodated by the tech giants.
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine
Learning
Allowing AI in the QA environment is undoubtedly the best thing that
software development companies could do in the future. AI in QA has the
potential to aim at analytics and reporting but also offer amazing benefits
related to:
1 Identifying test cases for maximum utility
2 Optimize test cases to fill any gaps
3 Optimal test coverage and traceability
4 Predicting end-user behavior and locate focus areas
5 Preventing any defects related to user experience.
Also, automation testing can even be used along with machine learning to
foster neural networks and algorithms into the QA process for reducing
human effort in testing to a minimum. Either continuous testing or
validation, AI and ML can together help to fix all the issues related to
quality maintenance while giving extra traction to the applications.
The QA Ops Development
With customers looking for better and more advanced applications every
day, QAOps is the only way to overcome quality issues with the software/
application development process at its most initial stages. QAOps is more
of an advanced practice that is based on the concept of DevOps as it is
meant to achieve a full software life cycle while working on bugs, code
quality, integrations, and updates.
QAOps can even allow the improvement of workflow for all the
development operations, especially the CI/CD pipeline. In a nutshell,
QAOps has the capability of:
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1 Improving deliveries through quality
2 Reducing time to market.
Thus, it would be nothing wrong to say that QAOps in the future will enable
developers and testers to collaborate better on overcoming all the
compromises with product deliveries.
Internet of things (IoT)
With the likeliness of having 25 billion connected devices in 2021, IoT will
enable the dynamic growth of integration networks between people,
processes, and devices. Most importantly, bring the idea of IoT Testing
would allow improving the basic yet most important facilities such as
healthcare. IoT testing will cut all the chances of vulnerabilities or security
compromises with the data-ridden solutions. Also, the technology could
even aid better coordination amongst devices, protocols, and platforms.
Above all, with software testers looking for solutions that can benefit in
security, data integrity, performance, and improved monitoring of the
application or software, IoT testing will allow expansion of knowledge with
a more secure connected environment.
Big Data Testing
Tech companies are working on bringing unique software and application
solutions to the world, and the process involves dealing with an enormous
amount of data. With big data getting bigger than ever, retail, healthcare,
banking, media, and many other sectors have started to rely more on data
testing. And it is very natural when big data testing can allow organizations
to work on better market plans through improved decision making.
In short, big data testing can entirely transform the way we interact with
applications through quality and integrity. Also, the growing enterprise
data could help developers to get over complexities and benefit end-users
making tech more advantageous than ever in the future.
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QA Test Automation
The adoption of Agile and QAOps strategies has not just improved the test
automation services but has made the world’s largest organizations move
towards automation. This is why the global automating testing market is
likely to grow by $ 68 billion by the end of 2025. Moreover, the need for
quality and accuracy with the technology have made tech firms integrate
the most advanced testing solutions into the development process while
meeting the ROI goals. In case you are wondering how test automation
services are likely to be an integral part of software development in the
future, here is how it is going to work:
1 Codeless automation testing or use of tools that will engage AI and
visual modelling
2 Replacement of manual testing with regression tests that will be
monitored by robots, especially when it is required to work on
complex and continuous data sets.
3 Blending Agile and DevOps for quicker deployments, cost-effective
deliveries, and highest usability.
Performance Engineering
The rising need for high-performance software and applications has made
the development industry incline towards performance engineering. In
case you are not familiar with the concept, performance engineering is an
approach that calls for QA throughout the software development lifecycle,
unlike performance testing that involved testing after all the development
has been done.
Since the ultimate objective of development is to offer a pleasing user
experience to the customers, sticking to QA goals right from the beginning
of the software development process could help take off any bottlenecks
related to development goals.
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Either collaboration of technologies or integration meant to yield
performance, usability, and security, performance engineering opens all
the windows to shorter development cycles allowing richer functionality
and faster releases.
Cyber Security and Compliance
The rising need for high-performance software and applications has made
the development industry incline towards performance engineering. In
case you are not familiar with the concept, performance engineering is an
approach that calls for QA throughout the software development lifecycle,
unlike performance testing that involved testing after all the development
has been done.
Since the ultimate objective of development is to offer a pleasing user
experience to the customers, sticking to QA goals right from the beginning
of the software development process could help take off any bottlenecks
related to development goals.
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About BugRaptors
BugRaptors is a QA and testing services provider company and is a division
of Seasia group, which is a CMMI Level 5 Certified company. At BugRaptors,
we offer QA solutions with the least risk and maximum security to the
software, applications, and websites. BugRaptors is an independent brand
built by professionals who own knowledge-based expertise to create
cost-effective yet reliable testing services.
BugRaptors provides testing services and QA Process Consulting, Build-
Operate -Transfer (BOT) model Testing Teams, Capacity Augmentation in
Functional and Automation Testing and Independent Validation &
Verification (IV&V) Services.
We have a team of ISTQB (and Equivalent) certified testing professionals
and it is our vision to maintain the world's de facto standard in software
testing domain. Besides this, we cater a wide range of industries using
modern software and application technology in business to streamline
their operations varying from healthcare, insurance, banking, media,
power, government, legal, telecom, retail, and more.
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