Biggest Software Testing Trends for 2020
Technology is constantly evolving and the field of software testing is undergoing continuous evolution. With the ongoing developments in technology, software testing experts have come up with the latest trends for the software testing industry.
In this guide, we’re keeping track of all of the biggest software trends this year and how you can apply to your work as a software tester in your business.
Software Testing Trends To Look Out For In 2020
Big Data Testing
Big data testing has already gained a lot of importance and will still continue to grow in the near future. 
This testing helps in the evaluation of the functionality as well as the performance of different applications. In the big data testing, the testers need to verify the effective processing of the terabytes of data. While data quality is an important factor of this testing, the quality is checked in terms of accuracy, validity, consistency, conformity, duplication, and more.
Test Automation
As per a report, the overall global automation testing market size is expected to grow from $12.6 billion in 2019 to $28.8 billion by 2024. The growth is staggering at the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18% during the forecast period. Increasing the adoption of DevOps and Agile are some of the key factors driving the growth of the automation testing market.
IoT Testing
IoT has become a popular full-fledged market in recent times. By the year 2020, the number of smart devices is expected to increase to 20.8 billion. With the rapid growth of the IT sector, the Internet of Things market is also growing rapidly. IoT, as the latest trend of software testing, will help in safety assessment, evaluation of data integrity, monitoring of connection delay, and scalability testing.
DevOps development
According to Statista, only 9% of respondents have not yet accepted or are not planning to take DevOps. Such an indicator suggests that testing and monitoring of processes go to the same level with direct development.
In other words, testers now “come into play” at the start of development, and not at the end. Writing and testing processes will be even closer to ensure continuous iteration.
Demands for Cybersecurity and Risk Compliance
The digital revolution comes with many security threats. As such, CIOs and CTOs from almost every enterprise across all sectors continue to recognize the importance of security testing for their software, systems, applications, network. Software teams have to even work with their partners to make their products more resilient to threats, taking the cybersecurity shield to the new level.
Testing focused on Progressive Web Apps
Introduction of Progressive Web Apps (PWA) by Google marked the dawn of a new era in mobile app development. With PWA, you don’t need to download and install the app on the mobile phone, rather a web application (app) that makes use of modern web capabilities to deliver a web-like experience to the end-users. As per many case studies, PWA’s have resulted in better user engagement, new user conversions, etc. for companies like Twitter, AliExpress, and more.
Agile Test Automation
Although test automation has been one of the key QA trends in 2019, it is believed that automation testing trends in 2020 should move to an entirely new level compared with the previous year. According to the report from CollabNet VerionOne, in 2019, 97% of companies reported practicing Agile methods and in 2020 the number is still growing.
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