In the current pandemic situation, there is immense pressure on the IT industry which is leading to changes in IT processes. This in turn creates stress on the testers to deliver more in short timelines. There is also a possibility that testing might become an unnecessary bottleneck. Hence, it’s imperative that the approach to testing must be revisited.
There are many factors that influence the testing industry. In the IT industry, with continuous integration/deployment, DevOps, developers can now assure Continuous Delivery. In a similar fashion a tester needs to provide continuous assurance services. Testers will have to adapt to provide continuous delivery systems. Constant collaboration is an important element of continuous delivery.
Expectations from Future Testers:
Profile of a new tester will be different from how it was in the past. The tester will be expected to provide assurance service rather than only running tests. The scope of this assurance services will change from project to project. Some of the common expectations will be:
- Risk Monitoring: This includes risk identification, assessment, and monitoring. It will be essential to identify the probable failures for a product in the early state and to assign an appropriate test approach.
- Associating Testing to Business Goals: This will help them focus on the most critical aspects of the product.
- Outlining and Executing Test Strategy: Test strategy is usually a blend of risk and business-based approaches as mentioned above. Tester will have to build and outline the strategy and ensure it is followed by the team.
- Coaching and Mentoring Team Members: Most of the times some part of testing might be conducted by non-testers such as developers or expert users. Hence, a tester will be expected to guide and coach them in the right direction.
- Conducting Testing: Always a tester’s focus area will be to ideate and perform testing.
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