It is hardly ever that software developers and the software testing experts see eye to eye, let alone them being passionate about each other!

The software testing team is generally held responsible for the bottleneck slowing down the entire development and delivery processes. More than half of the testers mention that most of their time is spent on doing side tasks as compared to the actual testing. Enterprise testing becomes a major concern when the test cases are written do not offer mature test coverage and eventually lead to failed testing.

Software testing consultancy service providers are at their wits ends to strike a balance to move Towards Zero Defects, Effective Identification of Defects Across the Touchpoints.

A report on Global Security Testing Market Insights, Opportunity Analysis, Market Shares and Forecast, 2017 – 2023 states that by 2020 the global security testing market will grow with an estimate of about 19% CAGR. It also discusses the security concerns that arise due to the adoption of IoT and BYOD.

Creating effectual test cases becomes more than important than it ever was!

Test Cases are Failing & Why?

With organizations striving to achieve agility through Agile testing and Continuous Integration development process release cycles are speeding up. Though accelerating the process has several benefits it brings down the efficiency of testing itself, especially because of hurriedly written test cases

The testing teams have realized that the manual testing which would have been good enough previously is finding it difficult to keep up with the increasing pace of delivery.

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5 Key Skills to Design the Best of Test Cases in Software Testing

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Test automation becomes the new age mantra, touches the entire testing lifecycle, from communication to test management, documentation and testing practices which are vulnerable to manual inefficiencies.

Best Practices for Software Test Cases

Poorly written test cases do more harm than it meets the eye to software testing & QA services.

• Adapt Testing Continuously

Agile methodologies focus on learning and adapting as the project proceeds which is often confused with the fact that agile teams are unpredictable. Learning &adapting as one proceeds does not mean compromised quality. But it must be managed to continually improve effectiveness. Adapting test cases as and when required improves the output of testing.

• Prioritize Test Cases Appropriately

While prioritizing in the test strategy it is important to give the riskiest task the highest importance. The initial guess is not always enough for prioritization and it is equally important to get feedback from the development teams and the testing teams to help keep focus in accordance with the importance.

At the same time, defects keep surfacing and it is essential to re-evaluate the initial prioritization.

• Strengthen Dependency Management

Sometimes software testing becomes unpredictable because of varying dependencies on which it relies on. When these dependencies are not well planned & managed it may result in downtime of the software.

Dependencies to Take Care of

• Requirements
• Other tests
• Test data
• Test environments
• Development completion
• Quality of Code

The efficiency of testing relies on understanding these dependencies and keeping a track on how they are progressing. In the enterprise environment where there are teams working on multiple projects managing these dependencies become difficult. There needs to be a process in place to track these and highlight only the dependencies that may have an impact.

Automated testing takes care of these better as compared to manual strategies as recognized by independent software testing companies across the globe.

Support Communication Among the Teams

Studies show that communications related to concerns related to test cases are severely misjudged and are judged out of context.

we consistently misjudge the receiver’s ability of an email in a certain context which leads to miscommunication and this communication gap is generally filled with the stereotype or some guesses.

Having a communication platform that stores critical communication with suitable indicators for criticality is quite essential. Some teams use tools while many have collaboration application built into their system. But an essential part of using these is that they should connect all the stakeholders effectively to propel accurate design of test cases as well as their modifications.

Looking Ahead

Today enterprises are building applications that can support growth and create a more sustainable business environment. Enterprises that do not update themselves with the trending technology may cause disappointment among their customers.

According to Forrester Research, most executives that were surveyed accepted that user experience is an essential factor towards the success of the enterprise. Research reports on these lines are definitely creating concern around rapidly changing technology trends which stress the need for quality along with speed.

Enterprises are supporting the idea of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and are also working towards making employee device applications interface securely. Though still there is a sense of concern about the security issue that comes along with this idea, enterprises are realigning their test quality & goals and mapping them with the business objective.

The enterprises are becoming more user-centric by keeping themselves abreast with the trending technologies and strategizing digital transformation. This also changes the way Quality Assurance is envisaged and the first step, test case design gains importance with independent software testing companies.

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