Future Scope of Quality Control in Software Testing

Due to high growth in the global software market, Quality Assurance and Quality Control are limited to desktops. It has a wide scope and the main focus has switched from desktops to mobile devices but the picture is changing nowadays.

Some of the areas that are swiftly changing market trends are:

1) Quality Assurance: Q&A is a systematic process to check whether a product or service is being developed/tested according to specified requirements or not.

It is indispensable and effective in maintaining the quality and stability that customers expect from an organization.

It should be implemented at an early stage. For example, the early participation of the ‘Assurance Organization’ allows focusing their energies on resolving issues that are discovered from the very beginning of the cycle.

Q&A organizations also need to maintain the entire customer experience while ensuring the production and delivery of high-quality applications.

2) Automation Testing: With the expected growth rate at CAGR, new possibilities are expected. Selenium is expected to be the world’s most popular framework in the coming years than in past.

In India, Selenium and QTP are the tools that are on the rise. We are expertise in both the tools QTP/UFT and Selenium.

3) Crowdsourced Testing: A research analyst predicts the global software testing services market to grow at a CAGR of close to 11% during the forecast period. One of the key drivers for the growth of this market is the increasing popularity of crowdsourced testing.

4) Industry-specific testing services: It is another significant trend that is envisaged to propel the growth of the software testing services market during the forecast period.

Recent developments have driven companies to align testing services into vertical specializations, which has gained popularity over the years.

5) Tracking Devices: Another area that is gaining interest in the software market, is tracking devices. Websites, phones, and laptops all have tracking devices that allow us to track the delivery date of the package.

Soon, tracking devices will be installed on anything of great value, including keys, bicycles, and about anything else that the consumer would hate to lose.

Apart from the above-listed trends, some of the domains will be a part of the revolution in the market. GPS tracking applications, cloud-based applications, sensor-based applications will be used.

Today it is the world of the Internet of things (IoT). IoT testing is still a new field in India and has a lot of scope and explored areas that are yet to be discovered. An example of this technology is beacons. They nowadays are commonly being used in many retail applications.

Kanika Vatsyayan

Kanika Vatsyayan is Vice-President – Delivery and Operations at BugRaptors who oversees all the quality control and assurance strategies for client engagements. She loves to share her knowledge with others through blogging. Being a voracious blogger, she published countless informative blogs to educate audience about automation and manual testing.