One thing which we were observing since the year 2001 was how testing activities integrate with SDLC in early stages by using methodologies such as Agile. Agile was used by many organizations for shortening their development time. Also use of virtualization, cloud computing, and service-oriented architecture also become famous.

2. One thing which we were observing since the year 2001 was
how testing activities integrate with SDLC in early stages by
using methodologies such as Agile. Agile was used by many
organizations for shortening their development time. Also
use of virtualization, cloud computing and service oriented
architecture also become famous.

3. 1. New roles and responsibilities of Software
Tester: Nowadays our prime objective is to prevent bugs
before the product gets delivered. In the future, we will
see how the testers will also provide various risk
assessments tools which will ensure that our product is
stable at all times.
How will we achieve this?
i) Understanding the risks introduced in the product by the
changes being done which will result in avoiding flaws and
bugs before they are written into the code.
ii) More automation will helps developers to test their
changes constantly.
iii) Catching the bugs before they will write into the code
by working together with the programmers.

4. 2. Testers will be a part of the development teams: Test
Engineers will need to work more and more time directly
with the programmers which will increase the
communication and the interaction between the testers
and programmers.
3. Communication with other teams: Testers should
communicate more with other teams such as product,
support, development teams, customers, etc. which will
help them to understand about business processes and
factors that may influence the product and the team.
4. Open source tools will be in huge demand: More
organizations will adopt open source tools. They will not
only be used for Automation but also for DevOps and Agile.

5. 5. Tools, techniques and frameworks for managing Big
Data: Testing of big data is strongly needed because of
the rate at which data is growing. Testing of these data
sets would require various tools, techniques and
frameworks.
6. Root cause analysis: Testers should also improve the
quality by solving the root cause of problems instead of
informing about the symptoms. This can be done by
solving ambiguity in specifications or technical
implementations like code complexity or redundancy and
make sure those problems will not happen again.
7. Feedback process should get fast: Testing ensures
adding value and deliver fast feedback to the team.
Everything that delays the feedback loop needs to be
taken seriously and improved. Testing activities should
occur along with development to keep the feedback loops
in testing as short as possible. For continuous delivery
teams, it should not become the bottleneck. It should also
help the teams in decreasing the number of bugs in
production.

6. 8. Continuous monitoring and reporting deviations: In
future, testers will focus more on continuous monitoring
and reporting deviations in production. One of the most
important activities is monitoring impact for a change in
code. It will also help the organization to visualize the real
value of the solution.

7. 9. Quality along with high speed will be a key to
success: Best products would be developed in fastest
possible time. This will help the organizations to focus on
giving the best user experience along with the fastest
time to market. The speed is only going to increase along
with better quality due to the knowledge of latest and
tools and technologies.
10. Software testing industry will continue to grow in
future: With such huge focus and demand for high quality
products and with major technologies such as Big Data
analytics, Cloud Technologies, Mobility, and Virtualization
more organizations will be attracted to increase their
budget to about 40% for software testing.