Quality Trending - 2024

Quality Trending - 2024

Hot keys about Quality

• Quality Engineer. Transform from QA, QC
• Continuous testing - Delivery the new feature quicker
• Quality at sale and now Quality at speed
• Apply AI on covering the quality of a product
• Low Code or No Code for Automation test

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In practically, There are couples of factors impacts on how you should apply those trending on your development team or not.

• The current software development methodology is applying.
• Ways of work
• System architecture (Monolithic or MicroService, …)

Next approaches to archive the quality trending

The biggest question is: How about the strategy to archive them. Here is some key actions you can consider to apply on your development team

• Automation testing more and aware of the automated testing types:
  • Automated Unit test
  • Automated Integration test
  • Automated component test
  • Automated API test (E2E Test)
  • Automated UI test (E2E Test)

We can consider to follow this approach: Test Pyramid.https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html

• Transform from Test Pyramid to HoneyComb

• Shift Left With Service Virtualization

Apply more testing in Component testing with some technical techniques like: Test Double with Mocking or Stubs.

• Covering more Component testing in each Microservice

• Apply Testing mock, Test Double with Stubs.

• Do testing with Contract testing for API and Consumer-Driven contract testing https://pactflow.io/what-is-consumer-driven-contract-testing/

• Continuous testing: Integrate testing into your pipeline. After merge a new PR, new change, automatically trigger build, automatically trigger test after trigger build successfully.

• Which tools applying AI model to do low code for innovation to the next development of automation testing ?
  • Low Code - Visual testing: Applitools
  • Low Code - Visual testing with: Percy
  • Low powered AU with : Katalon - AI
  • Reflect’s advanced AI capabilities with Reflect Run
  • Playwright test with AI: ZeroStep
  • Generative AI-based test with Testrigor

References

• Enable Quality at Speed: https://www.parasoft.com/blog/how-to-enable-quality-at-speed-in-5-steps/
• Quality Engineer: https://qeunit.com/blog/quality-engineered-speed-delivered/
• Delivering quality at speed: https://dev.to/talenttinaapi/delivering-quality-at-speed-in-testing-17lb