In the back room of the IT office of the application development process, software testing (especially the automated type) is gaining new attention and momentum. Fueled by widespread business forays into the Internet economy, testing has emerged not only as a critical IT problem, but even more so as a business problem. This is true for both the private and public sectors, where many services are electronic.
Companies looking to run revenue-generating businesses or provide advanced customer service online are increasingly turning to automated testing solutions to gain confidence in their IT systems and to They fully understand how applications work, find and fix problems, and grow and steer systematically. .
The global market for automated software quality tools, including mainframe and distributed environments, reached $2.6 billion in 2004, up 23.6% from the 2003 figure, and the market will double by 2007. expected. As a result, services are shifting to testing. The demand for quality testers with the right skills is growing at the same rate, and so are salaries.
IDC recently commented that the widespread adoption of automated testing solutions is due to the steps companies are taking to embrace the Internet. The old paradigm of abandoning structured quality initiatives to quickly deliver plans to fix quality issues through application updates doesn't work in the Internet economy. Enterprises need to know how their applications will work and behave once they are published to the web. The issue of testing becomes especially important as companies move from isolated front-end web applications to integrated he web-enabled enterprises with multiple application dependencies within or across the enterprise. It's all about mitigating business risk, maintaining integrity, and gaining knowledge and confidence in the IT systems you rely so much on to run your day-to-day business.
Business acceptance of automated testing as a common business practice did not come quickly or easily. In traditional client/server environments, it was more common to trade less testing effort for longer development time and faster deployment. Internal conflicts leading to poor communication between developers and testers are also part of the undermining of the effort, along with a loss of interest in the fact that both aspects of IT must work together to achieve the end result. It is the cause. In many cases, automated tools have been shelved due to poor test process support, lukewarm support from business leaders, and staff turnover. But a lot has changed in the ever-expanding Internet economy. Today, automated testing tools are considered a must-have purchase, and many companies allocate an annual budget for them. Most of these companies are proving that automated testing solutions can help them get web-based products to market faster, more accurately, and with fewer user-found bugs. In return, we will further strengthen corporate support.
The formula is simple.
Application performance and transactional accuracy are matched by efficient business services that result in customer satisfaction that ultimately translates into revenue. On the other hand, there is loss of income, bad reputation and, in the case of the public sector, severe political embarrassment. As such, IT managers and executives often speak the same language when it comes to “revenue,” making business investments in automated testing solutions justified and understandable.
Web application delivery cycles are much faster than traditional client/server and legacy systems, increasing the potential for error and the need for testing.
Perceptions of the value automated testing brings to the business have changed significantly. Information such as B. Number of database connections required
