What Will Be the Toughest Obstacles for Test Teams in 2019?

reference: https://abstracta.us/blog/software-testing/expert-roundup-software-testing-trends-2019/

What Tools or Methodologies Are You Excited to Understand Better This Year?

Janet Gregory:

“I’m not sure there is a new methodology around, but I’d like to explore a bit more about quality and what it means to different teams. For example, there is a difference between product quality and quality of your process and many teams get confused in what they measure. Also, there are different points of view in how we perceive quality of our products.

I’d like to find better words to help teams define what they mean.”

Jeff Martin: 

“The most exciting new solutions for me are not technical, but process based. Adopting Behavior Driven Development (BDD) has proven extremely helpful in focusing both development and testing resources on working together in a common language. This greatly cuts communication overhead and helps deliver on the promises of Agile and DevOps and well worth investigation.”

Lisa Crispin: 

“I’m interested in learning more about the DevOps practices and tools teams use to succeed with continuous delivery. I want to grow my knowledge of platform as a service and serverless architecture as well. I’m also working to increase my knowledge of machine learning and how it can be helpful for test automation, analysis of production usage data, and other testing activities.”

Raj Subramanian: 

“I am super excited about the influence of AI in test automation and software testing in general. I know there are lot of people working in the AI testing field on really cool stuff and it will be just a matter of time people realize its potential and a whole community is formed around it. I would personally like to know about 3 things in 2019 1) How AI is used in software testing 2) How to test AI based systems 3) How to be human in the world of AI”

Refael Botbol Weiss: 

“It would be interesting to see what personal assistants will bring, that is a green field for us testers as it adds a new layer which is not always deterministic because there are so many ways to ask a specific question (not to mention other languages which require unique adjustments).”