Businesses nowadays have not just exposed most of their internal applications to the customer, but have also developed additional software that outspreads and complements those applications. Software failures have severe business consequences, which is why application-related risks have become evident constituents of a business’ public financial filing. As a result, enterprises are embracing comprehensive software testing techniques for their applications.

Contents 1. How Did 2023 Embrace Change? 2. Faster Release Cycles Will Require DevOps and Continuous Testing 3. IoT and Cross-platform Engagement Will Require More Devices and More Applications 4. Conclusion

How Did 2023 Embrace Change?

In 2023, we saw remarkable growth in adoption of agile methodologies such as ATDD and BDD. Besides this, organizations have left legacy tools behind, supporting faster and agile-ready testing. This move emulates the need to cater to every role that touches continuous testing such as development, testing, or operations.

In 2023, organizations will witness the above-stated solutions growing to a higher scale, whereby the manual and legacy tools skills will transform into more modern ones. The evolution of continuous testing (CT), continuous integration (CI), and DevOps will also transform into much shorter releases acting as a channel towards real continuous delivery (CD). Leading organizations will be forced to invest in people and empower their developers with continuous testing capabilities that reflect a better range of quality checks, i.e. focusing more on DevSecOps. QA will no longer be a bottleneck, rather it will become the crux of the entire CI/CD cycle. The year 2023 will also bring a clear focus on Test Data Management as businesses will continue to find the accessibility of test data to be one of the most crucial aspects that drives lead time in test cycles.

Faster Release Cycles Will Require DevOps and Continuous Testing

DevOps is meant to trace an entire organization; though it’s profoundly weighted in the software development lifecycle. This is the reason that DevOps will be going mainstream in 2023. Companies will be making the adoption of DevOps practices a top priority. The main objective of companies will be delivering value to the customers faster through the automation of the release processes. This will only happen if the organizations realize that in order to establish their DevOps processes, they would require continuous testing as a part of their continuous integration process. In order to achieve faster and timely release cycles, companies will have to migrate away from the legacy testing solutions that inhibit them from shift left methodologies by leveraging cloud-based and open-source testing solutions.

IoT and Cross-platform Engagement Will Require More Devices and More Applications

With organizations’ ever-changing processes and innovations to mix different digital technologies, there will be an evident rise in the IoT (Internet of Things) devices. This transformation will create a need for more applications, further insisting on continuous testing of those applications.

In this year, industries such as healthcare, financial services, e-commerce, and automotive will all completely embrace the IoT. There might be transformations in the current processes and applications, as consumers and developers embrace the continuously evolving innovative capabilities coming in 2023.

Conclusion

To maintain and nurture customers and productivity, CIOs must identify the significance of empowering developers with the right tools and time to implement continuous testing across the SDLC. Tools that are powered by automation and the cloud solutions are increasing competency, reducing the time that is spent by developers on manual quality-checking. It also helps to produce apps that are synchronized with customer expectations.

The value of an efficient, or not-so efficient DevOps process can effectively ‘make or break’ an organization. In this year, organizations should include IT leadership in these conversations to make sure that developers are getting what they require, when they require it, in order to keep businesses moving as anticipated. TestingXperts specializes in market-leading devops software testing tools for enterprises. TestingXperts has constantly been growing with the transformational changes in the industry and is equipped to take on forthcoming changes effectively this year.

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The changing roles of testers and developers and the need for a cultural shift adoption of Agile and DevOps practices are impacting all teams in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including QA & testing. In this changing and challenging phase, every organization is scouting for innovative, yet proven ways of working that will help their teams work in a seamless manner.

Continuous Testing, being the popular and the most reliable method has proved to play a key in addressing these new challenges and produce the most reliable product. Continuous testing involves implementing automated tests as part of effective software delivery to overcome business risks and deliver continuous quality. However, multiple aberrations around continuous testing are moving around the application development community.

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An organization may adopt modern and competent processes and tools, but they cannot fetch any value without the willingness of people to acclimatize themselves to execute these processes and usage of tools. The limitations of tester and developer roles become indistinct in Agile and DevOps methodologies. These days a tester might have to configure deployments, and a developer might require configuring the automation test cases, and add them to the QA repository.

Contents 1. Continuous Testing Role in DevOps 2. Continuous Testing Best Practices 3. Conclusion

Continuous Testing Role in DevOps

Delivering large scale application suites can be extremely challenging. The extreme pressure of testing complex systems and meeting the demands of time-to-market make it increasingly difficult to deliver reliable systems in time.

The only potential way to meet these challenging demands of today’s business environment is to start testing from the beginning of software development lifecycle. This continuous approach to testing includes testing requirements and system designs to be testable through automated techniques. Continuous testing also plays a major role in continuous delivery. It involves the usage of concepts and methods of Agile development for the QA and testing process, proposing more efficient testing process. Executing automated end-to-end testing as part of the software development continuously throughout the SDLC is termed as continuous testing.

Given below are a set of best practices that can help in implementing and improving testing throughout the software development lifecycle.

Continuous Testing Best Practices

1. Collaborate With Business

Continuous Testing means testing early and frequently. We must ensure to acquire requirements from business to start development.• Building a close relationship with the business analysts is important for QA

• Eliminating vagueness from user stories is important- one must ensure user story includes a clear set of acceptance criteria and is testable

• Ignoring non-functional testing can be risky as it can hamper security and performance

• Building meaningful and important end-to-end test scenarios by utilizing data/analytics and trends from the production website to collect information about user journeys and activities through the application should be significant

2. Lean Testing

Continuous testing requires completely focusing on providing value for business. Instead of spending effort and time on producing artifacts that do not provide value, the focus should be on organizing testing in a lean manner.

• Pairing testers with developers is important to ensure effective unit testing is executed

• Reducing unnecessary testing artifacts like carrying out extensive test cases and test plans, reducing wait times for testing should be kept in mind

• Adapting a more investigative attitude towards testing while testing manually can be helpful

3. Implement a QA Practice

• Building a strong QA and testing practice that drives development and defining an agile QA testing strategy can prove to be useful

• Running regular QA workshops where the testers can improve their soft skills as well as technical skills is significant

• Leveraging technical architecture diagrams, models of the applications, and implementing accurate test techniques are beneficial

4. Automated Testing

Continuous testing follows the test early and test often approach. Automated testing is useful in order to get quick feedback on the application quality.

• Making test automation a responsibility of both developers and testers is imperative

• Knowing when to automate tests and when to leave them as manual is critical for an effective and speedy delivery

• Running automated tests from a CI server is significant

• Automating new functionality and stories along development instead of leaving them for later should be the ultimate goal.

Conclusion

Continuous testing has proved to be a major asset to organizations who are looking to accelerate their software development and release schedules. TestingXperts, as an early adopter of DevOps and agile practices, helps fulfill delivery schedules in time and boost software development process. Know more about our Agile and DevOps methodologies and allow us to help you deliver your software applications faster and better.

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2. Enable Continuous Testing with Shift Left and Shift Right Approach

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The initiation of DevOps infrastructure and agile development process has accelerated development build-test-deploy cycle from days to hours to minutes. This process has given birth to continuous testing and validation. Continuous testing refers to the exercise of beginning testing alongside development, shortening test cycles, to emphasize more on prevention of the problem instead of detection.

1. Continuous Testing and Devops 2. Continuous Testing Elements 3. Conclusion 4. Read more blogs on Continuous Testing

Continuous Testing and Devops

In order to achieve continuous testing, it is essential to automate every small activity in the process. Continuous testing typically means that you do not need to compromise. You can automate your testing and integrate it into building the process as soon as possible.

Extensive continuous testing plays a key role in DevOps success. It is the prime reason that organizations are focusing on automating their build, delivery, and integration processes but still having trouble with test planning and automation. In this article, we will discuss the essential elements needed for continuous testing and how continuous testing can help speed up the software delivery process.

Continuous Testing Elements:

1. Automated Testing: There are multiple applications on which complex systems are built, and all these applications tend to exchange information via different platforms. Considering manual testing for these applications can slow down the process considerably. To prevent delay, testing with functional automation can help alleviate the challenges associated with testing the integrated applications in the complex system.

2. Service Virtualization: Organizations can leverage service virtualization and continuously validate changes to bring higher quality products to market rapidly at a lower cost.

3. Risk Assessment: Organizations can assess the project risk upfront and measure whether they have done enough testing before going into production. Some points that can be considered during the risk assessment process are technical debt, business-related risks, and coverage.

4. Shift-Left: Organizations tend to implement automated test suites via a user interface as soon as the application is deployed. This approach can result in a delay in discovering defects, adding risk to the overall project. Focusing on shift-left quality practices can help in identifying problems early.

5. Test Optimization: Making the necessary cultural changes i.e. following the DevOps approach rather than the old traditional methods and processes can help in accelerating the delivery process. Continuous testing cannot just be possible by just automating Integration, Unit, Functional, Component, Security, and Performance testing activities. A constant workflow needs to be created with the associated processes and policies in order to achieve test optimization early.

Conclusion

Continuous testing enables flawless continuity in the delivery cycle if implemented diligently. In order to accelerate the continuous delivery process, it is important to integrate a fully automated continuous testing process into the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Organizations are dealing with tight deadlines and continuously changing demands from an informed customer section. TestingXperts, as a frontrunner in adopting the agile methodologies and DevOps practices, can help you in your automating your tests, achieving timely delivery schedules, and strengthening your agile process.

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