Nowadays, development cycles have become short and quick and both of these have led to modifications in the software quality assurance definition. It now mostly includes keeping pace with the market without bargaining on the product quality. Improved software quality assurance activities offer numerous benefits including higher productivity, optimization, quality, and process enhancement.

Keeping this scenario in mind, we are presenting you with the list of challenges encountered by testing professionals and QAs in 2018.

1. QA Culture

When it comes to executing software quality assurance activities flawlessly, the testing culture and QA requires to undergo a transformation. Organizations now want to discover ground-breaking ideas to find exclusive methods together with various software testing tools both of which would result in testing a product quickly and efficiently. This will also assist the companies to guarantee a continuous balance between addressing market demand with a good quality final product.

1. Facilitation of Quality

Understanding the sort of business is extremely significant for a system is confirmed. Henceforth, testing and QA professionals are required to join hands with product owners to be able to test a product in such a way that it suitably supports the business framework. QA teams should be able to be involved in the early discussions that would assist them to act as facilitators of quality.

1. Test Early

Just like development engineers, testing professionals and QA are very significant in a software development lifecycle. If testing starts at the initial phases of the development cycle, they can envisage various quality problems throughout the whole cycle and offer valuable early feedbacks on maintainable architecture, development, feature, and scope. All of this can seriously contribute to decreasing needless delay in time-to-market and high quantity of additional expenses arising out of the late discovery of errors.

1. Combine Testing and Development

To create a successful development team, organizations are required to combine the software quality assurance teams with the development teams in terms of knowledge sharing. In other words, testing professionals and QA should be invigorated to have some information regarding the development procedure of a product while the developers should be reinvigorated to participate in enhancing test automation infrastructure and should have knowledge regarding software testing tools.