What is QA?
Quality Assurance is any systematic process of determining whether a software or product meets requirements and to ensure the quality of software provided to customers by an organisation.
What’s the future of QA?
Long- Term Quality Prospective.
QA has long gone far from just being bug seeker. Customers always rely on having the best service turning to any company, and one of the most important QA tasks nowadays is their satisfaction while achieving business outcomes
QA incoming trends that will help to make the IT world and business work better.
1. Artificial intelligence and testing technologies.
The growth of artificial intelligence has a big impact on QA activities and will continue to grow in the future. Software testing trends include the use of AI and machine learning for automated testing.
AI can be used to find bugs in software and make sure that it functions as per the requirement.
The main purpose of applying AI in QA is to create a smarter and faster testing architecture that runs automatically to application changes.
2. Customer Experience
Users always want to know that the quality of your product is high and it is not going to become lower in future. The role of QA in customer experience is to make them sure of it.
There are few concepts that can be helpful to focus on customer experience in QA.
Communicate: Nowadays, Agile methodology is used to make the best result and this development approach implies that QA communicates not only with developers but also with product team, business team and users.
Collaborate: If quality of the product is the main goal, then the role of a QA is to transform into a full cycle professional who cooperates with all team members, being responsible for quality and testing activities throughout the process.
3. Automation
Nowadays, automation has become an integral part of the software development process, which cannot be ignored by any organization. The importance of automation has increased over time due to the increase in the number of defects and errors found in different types of applications.
4. Security Testing
Security testing is one of the top priorities for development of an organization. QA must be able to quickly identify any potential vulnerabilities or issues that can lead to data breaches or unauthorised access.
5. API and Services
Developers continue to build new APIs for their products, they also prefer professional QA who can help them to validate these APIs before releasing them to the market.
This means that there will be an increased demand for testers who can ensure that these APIs conform with the standards and as per the business needs.
6. Business Intelligence
BI is the unearthing data that can help you make more informed business decisions. This will be a big deal in future, with companies using BI to identify bugs and improve their product development processes.
The need for QA specialists will Increase
Nowadays, QA specialists are in demand and their role is becoming more important.
In last few years, number of Automation specialists has doubled because of the increasing demand in automation testing.
Delivering Quality of the products to customers increases the company growth and it leads to the more demand for QA specialists.
Conclusion
Software testing field is full of changes in the IT industry. Changes are happening and will continue to happen, but if we stay open to new knowledge and growth, the role of the tester will never become redundant.
She is Senior Quality Analyst at Elitech Systems. She has expertise in automated and manual Software testing, proficient in analysing a large scale project with useful insights for developers and project team.
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