Trends in software testing by Eka TechServ
- 2. Founder and CEO of Eka TechServ Over 39 years in IT industry Worked AT & T, Wipro & HP Consulted in SW Quality Co-founded RelQ Was Test Director in EDS/HP Founded a Test / KM technology company Advisor to several funds 2
- 3. Testing established is one of the lines of businesses in IT ◦ There is no IT player who is not in testing Customers accept that their key applications need to be tested Engineers are willing to consider testing as a career Outsourcing of Testing is established Global testing service market : 20-22B; Indian share : 10b. Growing rapidly, 20 % margin. 3
- 4. Convince Customer that Testing needs to be done Provide Test resources Manage Test Projects Build TCoEs Build/ Adopt new Tech/ Models Focus on Test Auto. Perform. Testing 4
- 5. Customer is too demanding Software is getting more complex and is often mission critical We don’t have resources/skills/models to meet the demands Investment , courage and innovativeness is required to change the paradigm 5
- 6. Testing is an after thought; not willing to give enough time or importance 6
- 7. Market / Economic Compulsions Customer Expectations IT Changes Impact On Testing Impact on Testing Business What it Means to you 7
- 8. IT vendor has to reduce the cost Vendor delivers services / products of highest Quality Vendor adds value to his business 8
- 9. Reduce cost of development ◦ Improve productivity ◦ Reduce manpower cost ◦ Reduce testing cost; push it to developers Improve the Quality ◦ Build Q into software. Focus on process, QA tech ◦ Automate ◦ Re-use tested modules Understand Customer’s business ◦ Train existing staff ◦ Hire from customer’s Industry 9
- 10. Slashed Testing budget Need to reduce cost Create newer cost effective models for testing Need to retrain testers and reposition testing Look for market repositioning 10
- 11. Availability of cloud based test tools Cloud based virtual test environment Cloud based test service Prime factor is to drive the cost factor down 11
- 12. Testing area What cloud can offer Sales and customer acquisition Sales portals / applications may help Distributed testing (multi location testing) Possible Test Life Cycle Frameworks with built in TLC are appearing Test teams Crowd sourcing Test effort estimation/ planning Tools and frameworks Test cases and test scripts Needs to be manually done Test Environment (platforms, network, storage,… ) IaaS, PaaS can provide Defect reporting, Functional/test automation, Performance testing and other tools… Tools available , TaaS Payment Pay as you use 12
- 13. Growth of cloud computing is outstripping many predictions. The growth is based on some compelling value proposition : speed to market, agility to bring forward or retire service, chance to move capex to opex. For testing, cloud offers range of opportunity to take up certain kind of projects, opportunity to reduce cost 13
- 14. To make effective use of cloud, you need to employ experts. The current team needs to be retrained. Lack of standardization among different clouds is hurting Cloud service providers are not yet providing clear SLA If required infrastructure is not available with one provider, you may have difficulty in integrating cloud infrastructures Lack of robust security of data is hurting the growth of CC. Though hybrid clouds are supposed to provide some relief, it is not very easy to configure hybrid clouds. Difficult virtualize certain systems (legacy systems ) 14
- 15. Take one step at a time You need to have a team of cloud experts in your company Test automation and performance testing are very good starting points Look for frameworks which run on cloud, which can interface with some popular tools Retrain your engineers Set right management expectations 15
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- 17. Requirements •Business Requirements •Technical Requirements Analysis & Design •System Specifications •Component Specifications Code •C#, C, C++ etc. •Big-Bang Integration Test •Validation Tests •Verification Tests DeployCost Of Change Time Collect Requirements Design Code Test Deploy 17
- 18. Cost of Change Time Iteration 1 Requirements Analysis & Design Code Test Iteration 2 Requirements Analysis & Design Code Test Iteration 3 Requirements Analysis & Design Code Test Iteration 4 Requirements Analysis & Design Code Test Deploy 18
- 19. Agile/ Scrum project management Project Initiation •Get an understand- ing of the project Release planning •Plan the sprints, • Test Plan Iterations / sprints Release Tests •Performance/Loa d •Installation/ compatibility •UAT •Complete regression •Release documentation Story Tests Automation Tests Manual Tests Release Ready checks Go to Release Tests 19
- 20. Testers are first class citizens on agile teams and part of the “whole team” supporting customers, business stakeholders, developers and other team members Testers support quality infusion through entire team and product cycle Test tasks and stories are planned and executed like development tasks and stories Automate where possible and use session- based testing for exploratory testing Communicate through information radiators 20
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- 22. Software is becoming increasingly complex and mission critical Many projects fail or inordinately late Poorly tested software costs customer. In TDD, test is written first, and code is developed to meet the tests For more details on TDD, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html 22
- 23. Industry standards, legal regulations are often made mandatory. Recent regulations show that not meeting these stds could cost companies their business. Companies are expecting that the test teams check for this compliance Banking , health care and data security are becoming very strict. We expect that this compliance testing will only become more and more important in the coming years 23
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- 25. Build a valuable and efficient Test Organization Explore newer test delivery models, platforms such as “Cloud” Use initiatives such as Knowledge Management to improve test productivity and test organiztion 25
- 26. Improve the image of Test Organization in the company. Convince the management that Testing is a specialized skill and is necessary. Assess your Testing needs, current state of Testing and Establish Test processes. Have a focus on Estimation, re-use of Test artifacts, automation tools Train your test professionals in processes, tools, domains. Take initiatives to improve test productivity. 26
- 27. Testing is not just supplying bodies. There are other models : projects, building TCoE, value added services such as Automation, performance testing. Explore “cloud based services” , “cloud sourcing”, and other models Expand your business and expertise in several domains / verticals. Examine building skills to add value to customer business. 27