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by

Senthil AyyappanAssociate Director - Testing Services

Future of Testing:

Tomorrow’s Answer to

Today’s Quality &

Flexibility Challenge 

“Shift is Inevitable” – A Short Video

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• Next Generation (Millennials/Gen Y) - Mindset shift• Paradigm shift in Business agility, technology & Infra• Competency Shift• …

What Do Millennials Want?

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Source- Pew Research| Wikipedia M-Factor

“Half Cup Empty” View - Are We losing our No:1 USP – Flexibility?

“Half Cup Full” View – Gaining Newer USP’s?

Testing Today – A Typical Scenario

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Requirements

Specs, Design, Docs

Code Testing

Developers Testers

Project Manager Business Users

Hurray, I floored the application with 700

defects !!!

Ahem….what can I say…I just have a great QA team

(less than a week to go live!!)

Puzzled Business Users – “Is this

what they really want?”

What does Business Really Want?

Reducing risk by preventing poor quality from impacting satisfaction

Reducing costs by improving our development and testing productivity

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Quickly responding to customer requests and requirements

Delivering applications on time and on budget

Delivering applications before competition

Improved Collaboration Between Developers & Testers

Source- QAI –Edista Testing

Quantum Leap- “Customer Satisfaction To Customer Loyalty”

Circle of Life

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Developer doing testing

Non-Technical/Less Skilled Testers

Testing as a specialized stream -

Career Testers

Testing branching into niche areas

(performance, SOA, etc.)

Multi skilled testers with Programming & Domain

Capabilities

M-factor

Dual Shift

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Requirements

Architecture &

Design

Development

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Requirements

Architecture &

Design

Development Powered by

QEUATTestingBusiness TestingDevelopment

Requirements

Architecture &

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QE - Defect

Prevention Focus

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Early Defect Detection

Accelerated Agility

Early Automation

QE

Dual Shift

Did you Know ? By 2015 – Automation & Tools will eliminate 25% labor hours

End – End Business Component Testing

Last Mile Testing Focus Easy to use - Keyword &

Hybrid based Automation of functional, data, configuration and environment

Testing “Ideas” too and not just requirements

Testers multi-skilled to handle user trainings and also “L-0” Support

Cloud/ TaaS Adoption - High

Emergence of “Value Crowd” Testing

Evolving Models

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Waterfall really??

Looks more like Waterfail

WATERFALL AGILENEXT

GENERATION MODELS

Agile or Fragile

Impossible is “I M POSSIBLE”

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Source of quotes : http://listverse.com/2007/10/28/top-30-failed-technology-predictions/

This telephone‘ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.‖ -- A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876)

The cinema is little more than a fad. It‘s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.‖ -- Charlie Chaplin,1916

[Television] won‘t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.‖ -- Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946

Thank You

Email ID : senthil.ayyappan@cognizant.comCompany Website: www.cognizant.com

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan

Kay

Take off….. Towards Beginning.... Join the Band

Wagon

Q & A