Key Technology Trends - Driving Assurance
Content
Key Technology Trends
1) Integrated Ecosystems- The tight integration of hardware and software that Apple has done so successfully in the last decade as other companies try to catch up. Expect more packaging of software and services to address infrastructure or application workload. There will be more shipment of “appliances,” with software delivered as hardware. 2) Enterprise App stores- Apple and Google together have more than 1 million applications on their app stores. 35+ billion apps have been downloaded from various app stores. Enterprises will now deliver mobile apps to workers via private application stores. This segment is bound to grow. 3) Social Media - Social Business and Enterprise 2.0: Key aspects of the CRM process are being overhauled to reflect a fundamentally social world. McKinsey and Company is reporting that the revenue growth of social businesses is 24% higher than less social firms .The message is that companies are going to -- and have every reason to -- be using social media as a primary channel. 4) Personal Cloud- Cloud will be the Centre of our digital lives for apps and content. Syncing of content across devices and platforms is a reality and will continue to grow. Services shall become more important and devices less important. 5) HTML 5- HTML 5 is the next version of HTML and is more interactive than the current version. Leading companies such as Apple have already dumped Flash in favor of HTML5. With HTML5 developers need not create separate apps for different platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows etc. Instead they can simply write one mobile browser site.1 billion phones are projected to support HTML5 by 2013. 6) Mobile Payments- The new Iphone 5 missed including an NFC chip but it did include its Passbook (mobile payment) application on its iOS6 platform. Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey is pushing forward with Square, a mobile credit card reader that is now being introduced across Canada. Google already has Google Wallet that can be expanded to the mobile space. Mobile payments are here to stay and grow.
Discrete Enterprise Application Testing Services Trends
1) Horizontal- and vertical-specific test simulation frameworks: As large enterprises across industries look to contain the cost of QA while increasing test coverage across integrated application architecture (cloud and legacy), vendors are offering more specialized capabilities in simulating application behaviors (e.g., virtual transaction output, simulated network performance across converged network architecture). Vendors will also continue to promote verticalized test platforms (e.g., test case repositories for financial securities transactions supporting pre-trade, trade, and post trade phases; reusable test scenario repositories for life and P&C insurance applications). 2) Value in continuous integration testing: There is an increasing trend in the use of continuous integration testing to support rapid agile release cycles. Use of open source test tools (e.g., Selenium) is often cited as part of internal test tool frameworks to support increasing levels of automation to speed cycle time with insight into quality of highly iterative code changes. As the pace of agile development out-sprints testing timelines, service providers will leverage continuous integration testing as part of their QA strategies. 3) Cross-cloud testing: Although challenges tied to traceability, audit capability, and governance addressed within and between different cloud-platforms are still in their infancy, validation services that address interoperability bottlenecks will become more important as the volume of enterprise applications grows across proprietary and/or open source stacks. 4) Compliance testing: Testing services to meet regulatory compliance will be driven by industry-specific needs (e.g., pharma, banking, and healthcare) or other regional or international agencies. For example, demand for services that support up-to-date IFRS compliance and PCI DSS compliance will remain critical 5) Global community-based (crowd source) testing: The concept of "in the wild testing" or global communitybased testing will continue to gain traction as a complementary test model to validate that mobile and Web applications perform as designed, under imperfect, real-world conditions on real devices, outside of highly configured and controlled lab environments. Enterprises, OEMs, and ISVs are increasingly leveraging these services to validate functional, security, load, usability, and localization of applications in different geographic regions, using a multiplicity of carriers and different device configurations. 6) Enterprise up-front requirement validation: The focus on driving more rigorous requirement validation into the front end of the software development life cycle is expected to gain increased traction in the recent future. Organizations continue to incur high costs for repairing defects late in the software development life cycle. The challenges of increased code complexity and high-end development only serve to increase code problems and increase costs post-deployment.
Sources: The above content is a compilation of insights from key Industry Analysts and from other published sources of information on Software Testing and Quality Assurance such as Testing Experience Magazine. Kindly subscribe to Testing Experience in the link below to know the buzz on Testing and the Technology Updates. http://www.testingexperience.com/
1) Integrated Ecosystems- The tight integration of hardware and software that Apple has done so successfully in the last decade as other companies try to catch up. Expect more packaging of software and services to address infrastructure or application workload. There will be more shipment of “appliances,” with software delivered as hardware. 2) Enterprise App stores- Apple and Google together have more than 1 million applications on their app stores. 35+ billion apps have been downloaded from various app stores. Enterprises will now deliver mobile apps to workers via private application stores. This segment is bound to grow. 3) Social Media - Social Business and Enterprise 2.0: Key aspects of the CRM process are being overhauled to reflect a fundamentally social world. McKinsey and Company is reporting that the revenue growth of social businesses is 24% higher than less social firms .The message is that companies are going to -- and have every reason to -- be using social media as a primary channel. 4) Personal Cloud- Cloud will be the Centre of our digital lives for apps and content. Syncing of content across devices and platforms is a reality and will continue to grow. Services shall become more important and devices less important. 5) HTML 5- HTML 5 is the next version of HTML and is more interactive than the current version. Leading companies such as Apple have already dumped Flash in favor of HTML5. With HTML5 developers need not create separate apps for different platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows etc. Instead they can simply write one mobile browser site.1 billion phones are projected to support HTML5 by 2013. 6) Mobile Payments- The new Iphone 5 missed including an NFC chip but it did include its Passbook (mobile payment) application on its iOS6 platform. Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey is pushing forward with Square, a mobile credit card reader that is now being introduced across Canada. Google already has Google Wallet that can be expanded to the mobile space. Mobile payments are here to stay and grow.
Discrete Enterprise Application Testing Services Trends
1) Horizontal- and vertical-specific test simulation frameworks: As large enterprises across industries look to contain the cost of QA while increasing test coverage across integrated application architecture (cloud and legacy), vendors are offering more specialized capabilities in simulating application behaviors (e.g., virtual transaction output, simulated network performance across converged network architecture). Vendors will also continue to promote verticalized test platforms (e.g., test case repositories for financial securities transactions supporting pre-trade, trade, and post trade phases; reusable test scenario repositories for life and P&C insurance applications). 2) Value in continuous integration testing: There is an increasing trend in the use of continuous integration testing to support rapid agile release cycles. Use of open source test tools (e.g., Selenium) is often cited as part of internal test tool frameworks to support increasing levels of automation to speed cycle time with insight into quality of highly iterative code changes. As the pace of agile development out-sprints testing timelines, service providers will leverage continuous integration testing as part of their QA strategies. 3) Cross-cloud testing: Although challenges tied to traceability, audit capability, and governance addressed within and between different cloud-platforms are still in their infancy, validation services that address interoperability bottlenecks will become more important as the volume of enterprise applications grows across proprietary and/or open source stacks. 4) Compliance testing: Testing services to meet regulatory compliance will be driven by industry-specific needs (e.g., pharma, banking, and healthcare) or other regional or international agencies. For example, demand for services that support up-to-date IFRS compliance and PCI DSS compliance will remain critical 5) Global community-based (crowd source) testing: The concept of "in the wild testing" or global communitybased testing will continue to gain traction as a complementary test model to validate that mobile and Web applications perform as designed, under imperfect, real-world conditions on real devices, outside of highly configured and controlled lab environments. Enterprises, OEMs, and ISVs are increasingly leveraging these services to validate functional, security, load, usability, and localization of applications in different geographic regions, using a multiplicity of carriers and different device configurations. 6) Enterprise up-front requirement validation: The focus on driving more rigorous requirement validation into the front end of the software development life cycle is expected to gain increased traction in the recent future. Organizations continue to incur high costs for repairing defects late in the software development life cycle. The challenges of increased code complexity and high-end development only serve to increase code problems and increase costs post-deployment.
Sources: The above content is a compilation of insights from key Industry Analysts and from other published sources of information on Software Testing and Quality Assurance such as Testing Experience Magazine. Kindly subscribe to Testing Experience in the link below to know the buzz on Testing and the Technology Updates. http://www.testingexperience.com/
