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Just as smartphones have revolutionized the way we communicate, digital transformation initiatives like Agile and DevOps have forever changed the way that software is developed and delivered. Development teams have already made previously-unimaginable leaps forward—yet we are still in our infancy when it comes to achieving the expected speed and process automation.

Despite all the changes we'll undoubtedly experience in the very near future (driven by AI, robotics, big data, and predictive analytics…), testing remains largely stuck in the past. Manual testing as we know it today—methodically stepping through a specification-based test plan and checking core values at each step—simply cannot survive the force of the digital tsunami that's fast approaching. It's too slow, and it consumes too many resources that could otherwise be enabling innovation. Legacy software testing practices and platforms are also due to go extinct.

The fact of the matter is that previous efforts to automate software testing have not yielded the expected results. Now, the pressure of digital transformation requires a level of test automation that far surpasses the capabilities of legacy testing platforms. Balancing the business's demand for speed with their tolerance for risk requires Continuous Testing, which provides real-time insight into the application’s business risk.

Continuous Testing is a broader process than test automation. With Continuous Testing, test automation is extended and supported by practices such as risk-based test case design and prioritization, stateful test data management, test-driven service virtualization, and seamless integration into the DevOps toolchain. But can we make it a reality?

This brings us to an inflection point: given the increased cadence and complexity of software delivery that the business now demands, traditional testing is not capable of de-risking (e.g., thoroughly testing) every release candidate. As the attached Gartner research recommends, we must reinvent testing…and soon. It’s not simply a matter of more tools, or different tools. Reinventing testing is a deeper transformation involving people, process, and technologies.

At Tricentis, we've led hundreds of Global 2000 companies along this journey—and we'd be honored to help you chart out the path to a testing process that supports your organization’s specific digital transformation or DevOps initiatives.

Wolfgang Platz,
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Tricentis

Source: Tricentis