Today, software professionals who are responsible for ensuring web and mobile application quality are bombarded with a myriad of challenges.
Posted Jan 1, 2016
Today, software professionals who are responsible for ensuring web and mobile application quality are bombarded with a myriad of challenges.
Today, software professionals who are responsible for ensuring web and mobile application quality are bombarded with a myriad of challenges. They are dealing with the sheer volume of browser versions and device types that are employed by users, the pressure to deliver their apps to market faster, and many are undergoing structural and organizational shifts such as moving towards DevOps and the goal of continuous delivery. These obstacles are challenging to say the least. These complex problems bring up some important questions:
A recent independent, global survey of 504 developers titled Web and Mobile Testing Trends, conducted by Dimensional Research serves to provide some clarity and answers around these questions and more.
The study first shows that a shift to continuous integration (CI) and other agile methodologies is driving a massive change in the way that development and testing professionals approach testing. As more development teams adopt agile methodologies, it forces organizations to re-think how they approach testing in a context of greatly increased demand for test suite reliability and speed.
Another finding is that as continuous integration and other agile methodologies are introduced into the environment, developers say they are testing earlier and more often – ultimately leading to better quality software. Additional key findings from the report include:
Modern software development approaches change testing
Mobile testing creates unique challenges
Cross-browser testing remains vital
Other trends impacting testing
There is no denying that each and every technology change impacts both testing technology and processes, and development teams have little control over the devices and browser types that are being used to access today’s applications. As Agile, continuous integration and other methodologies are introduced into environments we can assume that today’s developers are testing earlier and more often – ultimately leading to better quality software.
To access a copy of the report, visit: http://bit.ly/1JVxDwq
About the Author
Jim Cerna is CEO of Sauce Labs, which provides the world’s largest automation cloud for testing web and native mobile apps. Follow Sauce Labs on Twitter at https://twitter.com/saucelabs