​Table of Contents

Introducation 3

The Four Stages of QA Automation

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Initiative

Transformation Roadmap:

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Your Journey To Test Automation

Bringing The Roadmap To Life 8

Software Testing Trends: The Future Of

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Technology Shift

About BugRaptors 16

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Introduction 
Over the years, the use of application and software technology has

become a necessity for every business, irrespective of the industry or

vertical. However, the introduction of automation testing and added ROI

enabled the IT sector to experience the necessary boon.

It was nothing about magic, the very concept of quality assurance and

software testing that allows the application, website, and software

development companies to foster new ways to digital transformation.

Though the development companies were earlier investing in manual

testing, the performance unleashed through the test automation was

something that made way for rapid adoption and continued success.  

Nevertheless, there is still a huge community of developers and many

companies within the development sector that are reluctant to transform

in the development environment and adoption of advanced automated

testing solutions. But this reluctance is only existent until the developers

and software companies are not able to find an effective way to

implement the futuristic automation testing strategies.  

This eBook will help you understand the very concept of automation

testing while walking through the transformation process and strategy

updates that can help improve the software performance. Besides this,

we will take you through a detailed tour of the transformation roadmap

along with the tech trends of automation testing from the future. Let’s

dive. 

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The Four Stages of  QA Automation

Initiative 

1 Initiative Details

2 Business-line Benefits 

4 Top-led Benefits

3 A Timeline Overview

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Initiative Details
Initiative details are the self-explanatory descriptions of the project, which

include initiative name, initiative owner, and a detailed description. The

initiative name is usually decided based on the roadmap, while the

description contains the complete detail of the project working through the

talent, test approach, and tools. 

However, the owner is the one accountable for the testing project and not

necessarily be the person who is working on the project or has all the

dependencies but is the one who has the entire responsibility of the testing

task until it is completed.  

Business-line Benefits 
Business-line advantage is the second stage of the QA Automation

initiative that contains the benefits associated with the defined or planned

initiatives. Business-line Advantage caters to milestone objectives and

success metrics associated with the project. Though they all may sound

familiar, there is still a lot of difference between benefits, milestones, and

success metrics.  The objective section of the QA Automation initiative

covers all the pain points that are required to be tackled. However, every

benefit is related to the metrics defined and further allows gauging the

progress on the QA task.  

Top-Led Benefits 
Top-led benefits cover the milestone benefits associated with the task plan,

which aims at strategic alignment of the project and the overall analysis on

the ROI. Moreover, the first section of the QA initiative works on the

qualitative part of the plan, while the ROI section works on the quantitative

section. Since the team leaders or the owners associated with the QA

initiative are concerned about the ROI factor of the QA task, the third stage

of the QA initiative aims at creating benefits for all. 

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Timeline Overview
Timeline overview is the last stage of the QA Automation initiative, which

works around the total time span involved in the task. This stage is meant

to work on mapping the plan while walking through the timeline of the

testing process. Also, the timeline overview is focused on identifying all

the dependencies related to the task. 

Though it may appear like a consuming task to walk through all these

stages of the QA initiative, the eBook will help you work on the future

roadmap of software testing to attain long-term goals and a chain of wins.

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Transformation Roadmap:

Your Journey To Test Automation

When working on the future of software testing, the initial phase of the

automation may appear daunting, but the investment made in streamlining

the testing process helps to cut off costs involved while decreasing the time

consumed for testing. For instance, when you have spent a significant

amount of time working on defining tools and training, it would only need

you to invest in maintaining the structure of the automated process while

building product expertise. 

All in all, the transformation process and aiming at every detail of the four

stages of the QA initiative would help to establish the QA best practices and

a framework that helps you optimize testing collaboration that  is

productive for all. 

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Bringing The Roadmap To Life
Working on the futuristic roadmap to QA needs extensive focus on the

aforementioned stages of the initiative. However, walking through the

roadmap demands outlining the necessary checkpoints and goals. Since

marking the time required to complete the QA initiative is vital, make

sure you are well informed of the priorities that you need to have while

working on your continuous testing roadmap. Since bringing the

concept to reality needs you to breakdown your journey, here’s how you

can break it  into three different sections:

Talent  Tools 
Test  

Even if initiating the process may appear to be a highly consuming job,

make sure you have a good picture of the value that you are planning to

generate working on each stage of the QA initiative as well as the three

T’s of the breakdown process. It will not only help you to be more

precise with the QA reports and measurable transformation but also

accomplishing the plan on time.  

Let us quickly dig into the concept of transformation and work on the

three T’s of the accomplishment process.

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Talent 

The first stage of the automation testing roadmap begins with locating

talent. Since it is the process of identifying automation knowledge that

can align well with the product knowledge, make sure you have some

solid strategy to locate the right automation testing talent.

Besides this, your team working on the futuristic QA initiative should have

a mindset that promotes automation first ideology. This will help you cut

the unwanted gaps and progress on creating maintainable testing

frameworks with full force. 

Test  

Once you are done accommodating the right talent for the future of

software testing, the next task that you must foster is working on the test

cases. 

If this sounds familiar to automated regression testing, then you are on the

right path. However, the test section of implementing a roadmap to

transformed testing would need you to locate all the flaws and areas of

improvement within the existing framework. In case you are done working

out all the points of improvement, then you are all set to work on a tools

strategy for a boosted business performance.

Tools

When done working on talent acquisition and test cases, the very next

thing that you need to perform is finding the right tools. Make sure you

always work on the devices when need to ensure a progressive approach to

testing. It will not only help you lead your QA initiative in a focused manner

but will also benefit the whole transformation. 

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Nevertheless, the Dynamics for testing is a variable factor that changes for

 the organization as well as the team working on it. Therefore, it is vital that

you must know your trajectory that must be followed by the team for

effective outcomes. 

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Software Testing Trends: 

The Future Of Technology Shift

Since the future of software testing automation is all about creating  a

frictionless app experience, meeting the goals related to adaptability and

improvement enables more detail-oriented solutions. Every business,

irrespective of the industry, has started to acknowledge the concept of

software testing and QA services to achieve quick release cycles without

compromising on quality.  

The QA solutions are not just cost-effective but allow users to integrate

intelligent tech like automation, DevOps, IoT, and mobility into the software

and application world. Since the roadmap to the future of software testing

could not be achieved without working on most optimized tech solutions,

it is necessary that all the trends related to the future of software testing

should be understood and accommodated by the tech giants.

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Artificial Intelligence & Machine

Learning 
Allowing AI in the QA environment is undoubtedly the best thing that

software development companies could do in the future. AI in QA has the

potential to aim at analytics and reporting but also offer amazing benefits

related to:
1 Identifying test cases for maximum utility 
2 Optimize test cases to fill any gaps 
3 Optimal test coverage and traceability 
4 Predicting end-user behavior and locate focus areas 
5 Preventing any defects related to user experience.
Also, automation testing can even be used along with machine learning to

foster neural networks and algorithms into the QA process for reducing

human effort in testing to a minimum. Either continuous testing or

validation, AI and ML can together help to fix all the issues related to

quality maintenance while giving extra traction to the applications. 

The QA Ops Development

With customers looking for better and more advanced applications every

day, QAOps is the only way to overcome quality issues with the software/

application development process at its most initial stages. QAOps is more

of an advanced practice that is based on the concept of DevOps as it is

meant to achieve a full software life cycle while working on bugs, code

quality, integrations, and updates. 

QAOps can even allow the improvement of workflow for all the

development operations, especially the CI/CD pipeline. In a nutshell,

QAOps has the capability of: 

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1 Improving deliveries through quality 

2 Reducing time to market.  

Thus, it would be nothing wrong to say that QAOps in the future will enable

developers and testers to collaborate better on overcoming all the

compromises with product deliveries. 

Internet of things (IoT)

With the likeliness of having 25 billion connected devices in 2021, IoT will

enable the dynamic growth of integration networks between people,

processes, and devices. Most importantly, bring the idea of IoT Testing

would allow improving the basic yet most important facilities such as

healthcare. IoT testing will cut all the chances of vulnerabilities or security

compromises with the data-ridden solutions. Also, the technology could

even aid better coordination amongst devices, protocols, and platforms.  

Above all, with software testers looking for solutions that can benefit in

security, data integrity, performance, and improved monitoring of the

application or software, IoT testing will allow expansion of knowledge with

a more secure connected environment. 

Big Data Testing 

Tech companies are working on bringing unique software and application

solutions to the world, and the process involves dealing with an enormous

amount of data. With big data getting bigger than ever, retail, healthcare,

banking, media, and many other sectors have started to rely more on data

testing. And it is very natural when big data testing can allow organizations

to work on better market plans through improved decision making.  

In short, big data testing can entirely transform the way we interact with

applications through quality and integrity. Also, the growing enterprise

data could help developers to get over complexities and benefit end-users

making tech more advantageous than ever in the future. 

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 QA Test  Automation

The adoption of Agile and QAOps strategies has not just improved the test

automation services but has made the world’s largest organizations move

towards automation. This is why the global automating testing market is

likely to grow by $ 68 billion by the end of 2025. Moreover, the need for

quality and accuracy with the technology have made tech firms integrate

the most advanced testing solutions into the development process while

meeting the ROI goals. In case you are wondering how test automation

services are likely to be an integral part of software development in the

future, here is how it is going to work: 

1 Codeless automation testing or use of tools that will engage AI and

visual modelling

2 Replacement of manual testing with regression tests that will be

monitored by robots, especially when it is required to work on

complex and continuous data sets. 

3 Blending Agile and DevOps for quicker deployments, cost-effective

deliveries, and highest usability. 

Performance Engineering 

The rising need for high-performance software and applications has made

the development industry incline towards performance engineering. In

case you are not familiar with the concept, performance engineering is an

approach that calls for QA throughout the software development lifecycle,

unlike performance testing that involved testing after all the development

has been done.

Since the ultimate objective of development is to offer a pleasing user

experience to the customers, sticking to QA goals right from the beginning

of the software development process could help take off any bottlenecks

related to development goals.

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Either collaboration of technologies or integration meant to yield

performance, usability, and security, performance engineering opens all

the windows to shorter development cycles allowing richer functionality

and faster releases.  

Cyber Security and Compliance 

The rising need for high-performance software and applications has made

the development industry incline towards performance engineering. In

case you are not familiar with the concept, performance engineering is an

approach that calls for QA throughout the software development lifecycle,

unlike performance testing that involved testing after all the development

has been done.

Since the ultimate objective of development is to offer a pleasing user

experience to the customers, sticking to QA goals right from the beginning

of the software development process could help take off any bottlenecks

related to development goals.

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About BugRaptors

BugRaptors is a QA and testing services provider company and is a division

of Seasia group, which is a CMMI Level 5 Certified company. At BugRaptors,

we offer QA solutions with the least risk and maximum security to the

software, applications, and websites. BugRaptors is an independent brand

built by professionals who own knowledge-based expertise to create

cost-effective yet reliable testing services.

BugRaptors provides testing services and QA Process Consulting, Build-

Operate -Transfer (BOT) model Testing Teams, Capacity Augmentation in

Functional and Automation Testing and Independent Validation &

Verification (IV&V) Services.

We have a team of ISTQB (and Equivalent) certified testing professionals

and it is our vision to maintain the world's de facto standard in software

testing domain. Besides this, we cater a wide range of industries using

modern software and application technology in business to streamline

their operations varying from healthcare, insurance, banking, media,

power, government, legal, telecom, retail, and more.  

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