What CxOs need to know about Software Testing

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What CxOs need to know about Software
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What CxOs need to know about Software
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Its human nature to ignore things that havent
impacted us yet. But that shouldnt stop us from
being prepared for the worst. Most CxOs of
organizations across the globe still do not
accept the criticality of software testing until
their own organization faces the heat and
threatens their bottom line, brand and personal
reputation, and the risk of losing precious
customers. That the privacy of data is also at a
major risk is sort of an understatement. What
CxOs need to realize is that to be successful in
this race for digital transformation, the change
has to be drilled top-down from the Board CEO
and then implemented across the organization.
Additionally, implementation of agile and DevOps
practices along with software testing are going
to play a critical role for accelerating this
desired organizational growth. That said, there
is little room left for CxOs but to experiment
with, and implement the best testing practices
and methodologies that the software testing world
has to offer. A few trends to watch out
for Test automation A lot of organizations have
gained ground by adopting Agile and DevOps-based
automation testing practices today. However,
there are many others who have not made as much
progress as they would want to as they still rely
heavily on manual testing. Manual tests not only
are time and effort consuming in nature, but also
do not indicate if all the right tests were
performed as
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required. Test automation that is risk-based
helps improve time-to-market and also leads to
better quality. With organizations competing with
each other in a mad-melee of deployments every
few seconds, continuous automated testing has
become a prerogative to remain in the market. To
be successful, CxOs need to focus on whether or
not these tests took care of all the risk-based
scenarios. Using practices such as automation of
continuous risk-based software testing helps
improve the whole process, saves costs, and helps
CxOs make futuristic decisions. DevSecOps DevSec
Ops is a recent offering making its foray in the
world of software testing. DevSecOps is a
practice where the development, security, and
operations teams across the organization work
together in tandem using the quality engineering
process to create the best quality products.
Implementing DevSecOps helps test, expose, and
fix the risks and drawbacks of the new software
being designed way ahead in the software testing
cycle. This helps save precious amounts of time,
efforts, and costs, finally leading to achieving
the much desired faster-time-to-market, and
thereby quicker ROI. A robust and great quality
product also helps gain new customers, and wins
the loyalty of the existing clients. The fact
that Facebook promotes developer-driven testing,
while Spotify has its team of Squads, tribes and
chapters, and for Microsoft, where engineers and
testers are one, DevSecOps seems to have
arrived.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning
(ML) based testing Its no secret that AI and ML
are being hailed as the harbingers of the tsunami
of digital transformation. What CxOs need to
realize, however, is that AI and ML can also play
a huge role in the testing world. For example,
the data collected can be used to optimize the
test suites, generate analytics that are
predictive in nature, identify test cases for
automation, and also improve traceability and
defect analytics. Big Data testing With the
explosion of data all around, Big Data testing
has become critical as it can provide precious
amounts of business-critical information that has
a great impact on product quality, performance
and functionality. What is important however is
to be sure to verify the quality of the data
being tested lest it may lead to wrong
assumptions, forecasts, and decisions. Read Full
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