TECHNOLOGY
quality management and testing outsourcing , the setting up of test centres of excellence , code scanning and large scale automation involving component , unit , service and user interface testing are all being used to outmaneuver competition .
Large scale automation underpins the business agility of organisations including Google , Facebook , Twitter and Amazon . Their ability to innovate has seen a meteoric rise in company fortunes . Powered by automation , this new breed of organisation is able to put several new releases of code into production within a week .
Industrialised IT quality Industrialised IT quality is an emerging trend among some of the more forward-thinking software quality and testing specialists and is being driven by the factors including : Large Scale - Most large businesses have a huge number of test cases that ideally need to be run when there is a change that could regress the affected area . Continuous Improvement - Companies are under pressure to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their quality and testing processes .
Shared Risk - It is not possible to carry out all of the testing that is required for every change . Therefore there is always some risk that defects will appear in production . Sharing that risk allows an organisation to confidently state to the wider stakeholders in the business how they are mitigating the overall risk .
Focus on core business - Quality management and testing are disciplines in their own right and can distract a company from focusing on their primary goals .
These factors are driving the uptake of managed testing services , shared risk / reward models based on output or outcome based pricing and test centres of excellence tasked with driving continuous improvement .
SQS ’ Test Automation Factory uses the principles of lean , high-volume , high-quality manufacturing . In the Test Automation Factory , each test ‘ production line ’ is composed of a number of discrete workstations for each testing role with a typical configuration consisting of approximately three workstations , each staffed by specialists .
The automation team is the engine
12 November 2015