The advancements in Agile and DevOps processes have led to changes in the way a software application is written, tested and deployed. Organizations make key changes in their processes by decentralizing their test and QA teams. Organizations are looking forward to modernizing their testing practices by shifting to the left of the software development process. But it is clear that developers do not have the time to test, nor do they have the required skills or tools. In order to address this issue, most of the organizations hire an independent software testing company. They employ independent testers who share their knowledge and expertise with teams to begin as soon as the requirements phase is complete.
End-To-End Testing Solutions
When a company decides to adopt an agile environment, agile testers are a part of the agile teams and they are doing the majority of the testing on those teams. On the other hand, the developers perform unit testing, some bits of functional and performance testing too. Yet, testers perform the detailed testing to make the most of their agile efforts. It also includes end-to-end testing, and there are different development teams working on their individual jobs, that lead towards a release. so, all independent testers work with each other to deploy software apps and deliver in time.
Testing with the help of an independent software testing company can also involve taking the test assets created by individual teams and running these tests in a bigger scope, to validate the app from end-to-end, and to ensure that the changes did not cause any other issue in the app. This is where automation and artificial intelligence (AI) can be introduced into testing. For a continuous testing approach, a mature DevOps platform is required, where multiple pipelines for each app and environment are present. Although it is complex dealing with the cloud-native apps, in the case of legacy apps and the environment, the complexity increases. This is a big challenge in today’s competitive era.
Speed Up The Process
Shifting left does not eliminate the time for testing but makes it faster and part of the CI/CD pipeline. When working with an independent software testing company, a single team does not wait until the end of the sprint or the end of the cycle to test. Testing is not a process that happens after the development process. In fact, it is a part of the software development cycle. There may be a slight delay in the process but it helps meet the deadlines efficiently.
Conclusion
The role of agile testers in a shift-left world is different as the same techniques and methodologies are used but with slight variations. Independent testers are skilled and they have a comprehensive understanding of an application and know what they need to test and how the testing needs to be performed. Although the shift-left approach may be a little tricky for organizations, but it streamlines all the testing processes and helps developers focus on coding, while testers work on quality assurance.
