In the last few years, businesses have had to change their IT systems quickly. No matter your industry, IT developments like cloud migration, improving digital platforms, and data-management tools are now must-haves, not choices. A few relevant questions appear in the light of such swift and profound changes.
How can QA teams change to shorter iteration times? How can they set up flexible and risk-controlled systems, given the pandemic and all the secondary instability it brought, such as supply chain problems, inflation, a lack of skilled workers, and a possible recession?
QA’s Growth Timeline
Modern QA, in which speed and productivity are essential, has its roots in the Industrial Revolution. During this time, the idea of training workers, writing down protocols, and dividing up work between employees and managers, which didn’t exist in fiefdoms, came into being.
Testing has been the main focus of quality assurance (QA) in software development for a long time. QA is usually done at the end of the production cycle in an industrial setting. For example, crash tests are done on car prototypes to see their safety. But these quality tests can only be done once the car has finished manufacturing. This made the develop-to-test system famous. The develop-to-test structure is used in the process of creating software. Once a software product has been built, it is sent to QA teams for different kinds of testing, which is the last line of defense before it is given to customers.
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QA Approaches and Drawbacks
Traditional ways of making certain qualities are needed. Here are some drawbacks:
- Most quality assurance tasks are done later in the development process, even though they are effective.
- Few people on a small team ensure the quality of the goods.
- Problems are dealt with after they happen instead of before they do.
- When problems are found, the product often needs to be remade, which takes more time and money to do later.
Transitioning from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering – Three Key Factors
- The key to success in QE is ensuring the correct quality protocols are in place at the proper steps of the development process. In agile development programs, quality engineers can best provide the right quality standards are followed. The WQR says that agile companies have cut their time to market by 65%, improved software quality by 56%, and enhanced customer experience by 61%.
- Many studies posit that cutting-edge technologies will make the change from QA to QE The reports warn that there isn’t a single clear leader in technology right now and that each team will probably have to set up its own QE stack.
- People will drive the move to QE. So, people need skills matching how the QE role has changed. Experts say testing and engineering skills should be paired with subject-matter expertise, platform understanding, and business sense.
Conclusion
As companies progress on their path to digital transformation, they focus on making innovative software faster and more quickly. Technology is now an essential part of our everyday lives, and every business, no matter how big or small, depends on software in some way or another. You don’t want QA to be something other than a block that slows down the company and makes it hard to meet deadlines, but you also need to ensure that the software is high quality and has no bugs.
Even though QA is essential to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), software testing has dramatically changed because of digital transformation. It takes a strategic commitment to quality all the time and a profound change in people, systems, and technology. Companies must realize this and speed up their digital change efforts by making testing more modern. By going through their whole organization and rethinking how they try the software, companies will be able to get rid of the slowdowns that their current QA strategies cause and speed up their change even more.
About Maveric Systems
Starting in 2000, Maveric Systems is a niche, domain-led Banking Tech specialist partnering with global banks to solve business challenges through emerging technology. 3000+ tech experts use proven frameworks to empower our customers to navigate a rapidly changing environment, enabling sharper definitions of their goals and measures to achieve them.
Across retail, corporate & wealth management, Maveric Systems accelerates digital transformation through native banking domain expertise, a customer-intimacy-led delivery model, and a vibrant leadership supported by a culture of ownership.
With centers of excellence for Data, Digital, Core Banking, and Quality Engineering, Maveric teams work in 15 countries with regional delivery capabilities in Bangalore, Chennai, Dubai, London, Poland, Riyadh, and Singapore.
