What makes software testers more efficient?

As Halloween approaches, let's look at a few weapons that are the most lethal to software testers.

　　Accelerate Release Cycle

In order to cope with the current shortage of Fast fish and slow fish, the software delivery process is getting tighter and tighter, considering that software testing will impede the time for Software Delivery, therefore, it is unrealistic to achieve the intended goal simply by accelerating the quality process.

However, if you don't have enough time for testing, it may mean that your organizational culture needs to be reorganized because culture is a guiding role for building and testing software. Without a doubt, we all want to produce high-quality software, but the organizational culture can influence the bias of decision-making, which will lead to the risk arising when the software is put on the market.

　　Poor code written during development

The main task of Software testers is to perform tests, but they cannot find some simple errors that can be found during the implementation process. Therefore, if a development team can continuously apply development testing methods, such as unit testing, static analysis, and peer code reviews, to ensure that the Code removes many unnecessary defects and problems before entering QA, this will greatly reduce the time required for QA to discover, report, and fix these defects. This not only improves the overall speed of the team, but also helps testers to spend all their time on the arduous test tasks.

　　Real Test Data

Real test data can significantly improve the effectiveness of the test suite. Good test data and test data management can increase the coverage rate while also increasing risks, therefore, developing and obtaining test data may be a big challenge for a long time-because we need to invest a lot of time and effort. Copying production data is risky (and may violate laws and regulations), while Database administrators are required to provide necessary data, there are usually many delays, if this task is transferred to the developer or QA, other aspects of the project may be delayed, resulting in inaccurate or incomplete results.

Some teams have discovered that simulation technologies, such as virtualization services, can reduce the fear of test data management.

　　Complete Test Environment

If there are multiple related systems, it is almost impossible to establish a complete and real test environment. Developers, testers, and performance engineers often face the following challenges:

The system is too complex or impractical, so that we cannot use the testing lab method to partition the system or set political boundaries that limit our access to resources and the inability to access third-party/partner systems and services.

• Limits the scheduling of tests.

 

• There are missing/unstable components

 

• Ever-changing development environment

It is very expensive to try to solve the access restriction of the test environment by building a stage test environment or virtual test lab. In many cases, building such an environment that uses hierarchical application instances and virtual test laboratories is impossible-for example, if the relevant application is a third-party application, it is often managed by other departments or execution testing groups that exceed the "geopolitical" boundary (such as the mainframe ). Even if it is feasible to build a "complete" test environment, configuration and maintenance of all relevant applications still require sustained high operating costs.

Unfortunately, the tester cannot complete the test. According to the latest research, due to access restrictions in the test environment, 64% of testers spend little or almost no time creating automated tests, and only 50% of the test plans are completed as expected.

If you want to escape the above, Service Virtualization may provide you with a security shelter.

What makes software testers more efficient?