According to World Quality’s latest report, the average percentage of the total IT budget allocated to Quality Assurance has been decreasing year by year for the last 4 years. It is projected that this allocated budget will go further low in the coming years as well. Also, anyone who has ever deployed or developed projects had to make a decision either to deliver a high speed, high performing project or to go for a low cost.
These reports do not suggest that Quality testing is going down but it shows that software testing has made its mark in the IT industry. One of the major reasons for this trend is due to seamless communication between DevOps, Agile Structure, and Software testers. For years, while adopting DevOps and Agile, it was registered that a high amount of Quality Assurance testing would go extinct, especially in the large enterprise, as developers started contributing their fair amount of time and knowledge. However, that didn’t go on for long as QA engineers also developed with evolving technology to keep up with it and underwent extreme methods to meet the client’s expectations.
‘Quality Testing now is costing much less than before but the end result it yields is much better than before.‘
Reasons to support this statement:
Communication between QA and DevOps is getting Smoother
Easier maintenance, Cleaner Codebase, Quicker Turnaround time, and many such factors are responsible for better ROI. Software testing also keeps up with the new methodologies of DevOps and Agile in a number of ways, such as supporting continuous testing, development, and many more, covering all parts of DevOps and Agile.
As a result, the testing team is able to get quality insights from each testing stage, regardless of whether it's unit, functional, framework, or acceptance. These experiences convert into significant information that team managers use to make quicker, intelligent decisions that decrease time-to-advertise while shortening the release cycle.
Virtualization making Quality Testing Better
Several reports suggest that Virtualization is one reason for the snowballing of QA Testing as virtualization in DevOps allows business owners to inherit various resources and stimulate interfaces that are not available for testing due to high costs and other barriers.
Virtualization allows QA engineers to offer Manual Testing services by providing them with a virtual testing environment, making it easier for testers to work in parallel with Developers. This implies that the correct virtualization techniques accelerate the delivery of complex testing conditions. Unlike before, virtualization makes it feasible for groups to begin integration testing early in the development cycle, perform it all the more regularly, decrease dependencies, and cut down installation time.
Cloud Computing: An Unexpected Boom in Testing
Cloud computing is making it easier for testers to test the products and that’s why performance testing over the cloud is becoming a number 1 choice of enterprises. When there’s a lot of inconsistency in the deployment environment and your user base is quite volatile, cloud computing trunks out to be quite cost-efficient. It is because you test on demand and you don’t have to invest a lot in testing equipment and their maintenance and the web-based testing systems don’t require much memory from your hardware.
Moreover, cloud testing allows organizations to increase or decrease the testing procedures based on their needs. It is very much time saving also as you don’t have to worry about the cloud‘s security, as the provider takes care of that issue, and once logged in, your Quality team can directly engage in testing, without worrying about the installation.
Wrapping Up
Testing has now become an integral part of any organization and they can’t imagine any of their product’s release without that’s why It doesn’t matter that the average testing budget allocated in the IT industry is going down. Furthermore, automation testing companies are gaining a lot of popularity as a high number of test cases in large enterprises are now 100% automated. All of these factors are indicating that testing in companies is now being taken seriously and there’s no slowing down in QA testing any time sooner.
