4 Continuous Testing Myths You Must Stop Believing In | Bits&Bytes
Do you know what are the most popular continuous testing myths? Maybe you believe in them too? Let's debug them, so you can get the most out of continuous testing!
Continuous Testing Is Test Automation, true or false? FALSE! Many companies miss out on its benefits by believing in continuous testing myths. This time we are going to bust some of them.
Myth #1. Continuous Testing Is Test Automation
Both have common characteristics: ensure faster code quality, frequent tests execution, increase test coverage, faster feedback. However, continuous testing goes beyond test automation and is aimed at ensuring continuous quality and its improvement throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Myth #2. Large Organizations Cannot Benefit from Continuous Testing
Changes in developer and tester roles allow companies to build smaller, well-knit teams instead of trying to support collaboration between giant independent groups. Agile teams blur the responsibilities of developers and testers, making it easier to build a reliable team to cover continuous integration and delivery without sacrificing quality.
Myth #3. Only the QA Team Does Continuous Testing
Continuous testing means that developers are writing tests, and QA specialists serve as consultants and strategists to help them out. Also, QA specialists can write the code and run tests by themselves. Either way, developers and testers are not two separate teams anymore.
Myth #4. It is Expensive
Continuous testing is the requirement of today’s market: deliver quickly, fix bugs ASAP, adapt to customer needs and you’ll win the competition. And as you imagine you can not get it for free. Think about continuous testing as an investment, not as a mere expense.
There are a few things you’ll get back in return:
Improved code quality
Immediate feedback
No human-made mistakes
ART for cross-functional development teams
quality assurance
Even though there are some challenges, which we discussed in the previous video, continuous testing is a winning strategy to ensure a quick reaction to market needs, improve the quality of code and fix problems in as little time as possible.
_____________________________________
Want to know more? Here is a blog post: https://bitbar.com/blog/debunking-con...
Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/c/BitbarMobile...
Follow us on:
Twitter: / bitbar
LinkedIn: / bitbar
GitHub: https://github.com/bitbar
Facebook: / bitbartechnologies
#continuoustesting #devops #testautomation