Technologies such as virtual reality, predictive analysis, artificial intelligence, and blockchain are forcing software testing and quality assurance to keep on reinventing. Latest technology and the growing requirement to adjust new development techniques will drive growth for software testing in 2019.
Keeping this scenario in mind, I am presenting the list of some software testing challenges that testers might encounter this year.
1. Getting Better Test Coverage
Teams have to guarantee maximum test coverage because of the increasing complexities in the app. This will lead to growth in the Test Automation to cut down testing efforts and attaining improved outcomes. All the features have to be tested to guarantee that the final experience is desirable and according to the user’s expectations. Any malfunction at this stage can cause a loss in the business reputation.
It is important for the teams to leverage automation tools and trace the progress in depth to attain better test coverage. Now the question arises that will it assist in cutting down the risks? Just process discipline and experimentation can ensure this.
2. Successful API Testing
Nowadays, every software and application come with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with API that is available publicly for prolonged use by developers. Majority of the times API testing goes unnoticed due to lack of important skills and complexity. Nevertheless, the requirement for API testing will grow because of the risks involved. Testing team is required to work with the tools to do the same and even create strong coding skills.
3. Faster and Quicker Defect Detection
The latest trend in the software development lifecycle is to support early testing and early detection of the defect to attend issues and bugs. This requirement will increase as the business situation gets increasingly competitive and challenging. Teams are required to come up with the system to resolve issues in real-time and conduct frequent code reviews to spot issues early in the lifecycle. An effective defect tracking tool will be required to check missing error routines, data type mismatch, code standards and much more.
4. Work in Coordination with The Development Teams
The ever-changing dynamics in the development and testing field have led developers and the testers to collaborate more frequently. This is one of the biggest challenges as it causes disagreements and disputes between them. As a consequence, a lot of work maturity and skill-sets will be required to fill in the gap and work together as a team. Nowadays, testers will require outstanding communication tactics and analytical skills to create the required rapport.
5. Make Sure That the App Delivers Repeated Performance
Software apps are getting difficult to handle day by day. This put added pressure on guaranteeing that all the performance bottlenecks are covered. This a big challenge because testers will have to guarantee that the software or app delivers repeated performance under varying pressures. Load testing is useful in this particular scenario. However, guaranteeing performance will require result-oriented testing and robust strategy.
Proper documentation of the results and tests and the automation of the tests will assist in authenticating results and decreasing the testing efforts also.
