The document discusses emerging trends in software testing for 2015, including testing the Internet of Things, SMAC technologies, DevOps practices, service virtualization, domain-focused testing, test centers of excellence, and crowd testing. Some of the impacts on testing include a focus on user experience, interoperability, automation, mobility, data analytics, continuous integration and delivery, API/web service testing, and output-based pricing models for crowd testing. Factors influencing these trends are the growing adoption of agile development practices and distributed teams, as well as barriers to fully implementing agile approaches.

1. Let’s go Snorkeling – Trends
in Software Testing -2015
Brijesh Deb

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4. Agenda
• Emerging Trends In Testing in 2015
• Factors Affecting the trends
• Impact on Testing types

5. 2015 – A really HOT year!

6. 7 Emerging Testing trends of
2015
• Testing Internet of Things
• Testing for SMAC
• Testing in the DevOps world
• Service Virtualization Testing
• Domain Focused Testing
• TCoE
• Crowd Testing

7. The “Internet of Things”
• Smart City
• Smart Homes
• Smart Industry
• Smart Transportation
• Smart Healthcare Systems
• Smart World

8. It’s a world of possibilities
• 4,294,967,296 IPv4 Addresses
• 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,
607,431,768,211,456 IPv6
Addresses possible.
• That is 3.4* 1038
• NFC Bluetooth
• Sensors – Touch, Sound, Sight,
Motion
• Move of LAN, MAN and WAN, it’s
time for PAN

9. What does it mean for testers
• The Human User Experience
• Less dependency on keystrokes, more on human
response
• Interoperability Testing plays a major role.
• More and more test automation for faster turnaround.
• Testing for the “User”

10. Social Media and Big Data
Courtesy:-IDC/IBM

11. SMAC in Numbers
S M A C
76%
Businesses
on Social
Media
72%
increase in
productivity
by going
mobile
75%
companies
investing in
analytics
92%
companies
trust the
cloud for
their
businesses

12. What does it mean for testers
• DWH Testing - Business Functionality Testing for Data
Quality and Performance
• Storage Testing
• Performance and Scalability
• More on more test automation for faster turnaround on
UI and Regression
• Everything and everyone is mobile

13. DevOps
• 30x Faster Code Deployment
• It’s all about CD… In fact CO all the time
• Business and Communication – Primary
Drivers
• Automation is the key
• Agility – need of the hour

14. What does it mean for testers
• CI
• CD
• CT
• CM
Courtesy: Sanjeev Sharma, IBM

15. Service Virtualization

16. Service Virtualization
• In software engineering, service
virtualization is a method to emulate the
behavior of specific components in
heterogeneous component-based
applications such as API-driven
applications, cloud-based applications and
service-oriented architectures. – Wikipedia
definition

17. What does it mean for testers
• Web services/API Testing
• ERP – SAP Testing
• SaaS Testing
– Performance
– Security
– Test Automation
• DWH Testing
• Mobile Testing

18. Domain Focused Testing
• Healthcare
• Power Generation
• Ecommerce
• Storage
• Games
• F&B
• Hospitality
• Mobility

19. TCoE

20. TCoE
• Time, Cost and Quality
• Focused TCoE are the order of the day.
• Multiple CoE teams
• It’s about best practices
• Reusability
• Knowledge Management

21. Customer Requirement- Test
This…
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22. Crowd Sourcing To Crowd
testing – Past Present and
Future
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23. Outsourced Testing Vs Crowd
Testing
• Single Location
• Fixed work hours
• Rigid work force – limited
resources
• Headcount pricing
• Fixed costs
• Global
• 24x7
• Flexible workforce – Greater
Reach
• Output based pricing
• No Overhead costs
Outsourced Testing Crowd Testing

24. What’s possible through the
crowd?
• Functional Testing
– Testing in the real world
– Testing on Expanded Software / Hardware Configurations
– Web Sites
• UX (User Experience) Testing
– Demographics based early UX Testing
– Accessibility testing (Section 508)
– User Documentation / Online Help Testing
• In Country Testing
– Testing based on locale and demographics
– Localization testing
– Device testing
– Field Testing

25. That’s not all…Here’s more
• Performance Testing
– Global user based testing using open source tools
– Global user based testing without tools
• Games Testing
– Beta testing for functionality
– Beta testing for UX
• Mobile Testing
– Mobile Apps Testing
– Mobile Device Testing
and lots more…

26. Factors influencing the trends

27. Agile – The big HERO?
• What is agile testing…?
• 93% Companies say that they have or
they will be adopting Agile… ?
• Distributed Teams and Agile?
• Independent Testing Teams and Agile?

28. Barriers to agile adoption
Courtesy: State of Agile Survey 8th Edition

29. AGILE IS NOT A
TOOL OR
METHODOLOGY…
IT’S A MINDSET

30. Thank You