The Future of the Software Testing Profession...The Future of the Software Testing Profession...
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The Future of the Software
Testing Profession
Michael D. Sowers
TechWell
Tw: MichaelSowers4
Ln: mdsowers
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Is Testing Dying?
Disagree Agree
PM & Testers 83% 17%
Developers 33% 67%
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Agenda
● Survey Findings
● Changes
● Methods/tools & Automation
● Product quality
● What’s Ahead?
● The future of the software testing profession
● What are the driving factors?
● Observations/recommendations
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Agenda
● Survey Findings
● Changes
● Methods/tools & automation
● Product Quality
● What’s Ahead?
● The future of the software testing profession
● What are the driving factors?
● Observations/recommendations
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Survey Overview
33 Questions focused on: ● The testers role & work
● Changes over the last 12 months
● Key practices & techniques
● Pre & post release quality
● Opinion of the future of the tester role
● Tools used
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Demographics - 495 Responses
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Our Testing Roots
Why did you become a tester?
Testing is my passion
What was your first job before getting into testing?
Developer/programmer – 20%
Testing was my first Job – 18%
Business user/analyst – 14%
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Career Goals Do you want to continue your career as a tester?
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Dev Methods & Technologies
Primary life cycle model?
Agile-Scrum - 34%
Agile-Waterfall – 39%
Primary technologies tested?
Web Apps and Web Services
Key Practices:
Automated Testing
Continuous Integration, Delivery & Testing
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Test Methods & Techniques Common test approaches
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How Much Automation?
Unit Integration System Acceptance
Some Limited Some Limited
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Change in
Number of
Testers
No change Added
Testers
Reduced
Testers 46%
19%
31%
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Primary Changes in Testing
Has your testing role changed?
Majority - No change
How will role change over the next 12 months?
Yes - Become more technical
Yes - Acquire more business skills
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Pre- and Post Release Quality
Dev Build Quality Up Post Release Defects Down
Increased Unit Testing Improved Testing Focus
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Commonly Used Tools
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Current and Planned Certification
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Testing - Yesterday and Today
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Agenda
● Survey Findings
● Changes
● Methods/tools & automation
● Product quality
● What’s Ahead?
● The future of the software testing profession
● What are the driving factors?
● Observations/recommendations
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Truths and Myths
● Testing is a whole-team responsibility
● Testing the idea and the product is good
● Agile and other iterative methods work
● Can’t test quality in – must build it in
● Testing is about risks
● Defects abound
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Truths and Myths
● Anyone can do testing
● Being a tester is a compromise
● Automation is the magic bullet
● Businesses don’t care about quality
● One approach works universally
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On The Future of Testing
Role of tester must be transformed:
● Agile changes the tester role
● Testers must become more technical
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Tester should be a skilled role:
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As long as humans are accountable for
software we will need testing expertise:
89% Agree
77% Agree
91% Agree
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Testing Remains Critical Highlights of 2014 Outages
● Drop Box
● Gmail
● Google Services
● Adobe
● Icloud
● Microsoft
Bugs Still Plague Us
● Human Nature
● Increasing Complexity
● Competitive Pressure
● Poor Risks Decisions
● Improved Testing
Techniques
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The Next Decade - Technology
● Computing everywhere
●The Internet of Things (IoT)
● 3D printing
● Analytics
● Context-rich Systems
● Smart machines
● Cloud/client Computing
● Software defined apps
● Web scale IT
● Risk based security
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The Next Decade - Testing
● Security testing
● Cloud testing
● Big data testing
● Telematics testing
● Digital commerce testing
● IoT testing
● DevOps
● Service virtualization
● Mobile testing
● Infrastructure testing
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Today’s Testing Scene - 2015
Key Strengths
● 40 year foundation
● Emerging methods
● Training
● Community
● Sound technology
● Standards
Key Challenges
● Knowledge
● Innovation
● Technology
● Leadership
● Transformation
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QA & Test Budgets on the Rise
● Testing and QA now represent 26% of total IT
budgets on average
● Up 23% from 2013
● Up 18% from 2012
● The share of testing budgets is expected to reach
29% by 2017.
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Observations/Recommendations
● The testing profession is NOT dying!
● Agile is here to stay
● Automation is an imperative
● The probability of mobile being in your future is high
● Continual transformation is a must
● There is tremendous opportunity to specialize
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Four Career Paths for Testers
● Architect of Testing Guru
● Coordinator of Testing Guru
● Automator of Testing Guru
● Business User Testing Guru
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A Continuum of Test Expertise
Simple
Flexible
Low
High
Low
Less critical
High
Structured
High
Low
High
Mission critical
System Complexity
Development Methodology
Level of Independence
Customer Involvement
Risks
Industry
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Own Your Career as a Tester
● Keep pace with the transformation and transform!
● Chose a specialty
● Have a personal development plan & roadmap
● Have an industry focus
●Take accountability for growing your expertise
● Creativity/innovation
● Leadership
● Results
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Invest in Superpowers
● Ambition
● Passion
● Specialization
● Learning
● Derivation
● Creativity
● Interesting
● Storytelling
● Leadership
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Closing Thought
“As long as people are accountable for software
development there will be a need for skilled
testing roles…”
M.D.Sowers
Thank You
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Acknowlegements
With sincere thanks and appreciation
to all who have contributed:
● Each of you that have or will continue the conversation
via the TechWell Survey
● Dorothy Graham, Jon Hagar, Matt Heusser, James
Whittaker
● Wayne Middleton, Heather Shanholtzer, Stasi
Richmond
● Lee Copland, Rick Craig, Dale Perry, Rob Sabourin
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