'What the top 10 Most Disruptive Technology Trends Mean for QA and Testing' by John Montgomery

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Top 10 Disruptive Technologies You Must Understand

What These Technologies Mean for Your Organization

John Montgomery | VP of Project Delivery | [email protected]

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• WHY? Consumerization of Enterprise Computing– Technological disruption is pervasive– NO space is exempt

• You can take the web with you– Connectivity– Publishing– Sharing

• Empowers users to turn data

into information and action

anytime, anywhere for anyone

Enterprise Consumerization

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• Mobile devices have taken over the boardroom

• ABI Research anticipates worldwide enterprise mobile data revenues will reach $133 billion by 2014

• Enterprise mobility no longer just

for email, but for– Business apps: CRM, ERP and HR systems– Productivity apps: docs, spreadsheets and

presentations– Collaboration apps: email, IM and publishing – Medical apps: health records, patient interaction &

education

#1: Mobile Apps

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• CIOs and tech execs scrambling to accommodate

• Growing pressure for QA to ensure mobile apps work properly and are private and secure across– Handsets makers & models– Operating systems– Browsers– Wireless Carriers– Languages (multi-geo apps)– Locations

Mobile Apps’ Impact on Testing

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#2: Mobile OS Wars Heating Up

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• Standards for mobile lag behind OS– Anyone remember the late 90’s in web?

• Pressure for companies to ensure apps work properly across mobile operating systems, especially– Apple iOS– Android OS (codenamed Honeycomb)– BlackBerry OS– Windows Phone 7

• Testing each platform requires unique:– Hardware & software– Expertise & personnel

Impact on Testing

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• Goldman Sachs predicts shipments to grow by 500% & tablet sales to overtake PCs by 35% percent in 2011– B2C and B2B

• Tablet market competition:– Apple’s iPad 2– Samsung’s Galaxy– HP’s TouchPad (webOS)– Motorola’s Xoom– And many more!

#3: Tabletmania Sweeps Country

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• Pressure to ensure apps are tablet-optimized– More real-estate/content per page, feature rich– Some connected to the web while others not

• Rapidly growing device fragmentation

• Work properly + private and secure across– Device makers & models– Operating systems– Browsers– Carriers– Locations

Tablets’ Impact on Testing

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• The White House unveiled plan to expand 4G wireless coverage to 98% of Americans

• Ubiquitous broadband enables workers to address issues in real time, on demand around the world

• Users/customers will have more options– Larger docs & spreadsheets– More charts and graphs

• Users will be able to send & receive

more data themselves, fewer file size restraints

#4: 4G’s Speed & Productivity

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• 4G devices expected to have shorter shelf life than traditional 3G-based devices

• Results in less time to test, customize, integrate & deploy mobile devices

• Impact device, support and budgetary plans

4G’s Impact on Testing

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• HTML5 experience much like today’s native apps experience – the “app-like browser”

– Next-gen user experience, pervasive interactivity– Faster than previous HTML in its presentation– More flexible in its implementation– Enabling more apps on more devices

#5: HTML5

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• Many developers ditching Flash for HTML5

• Much code to be rewritten for cross-functionality

• Leading mobile OS don’t support Flash

• QA & Testing Managers may need to retrain

staff, equip them with new skills

• Make sure new code works– Mobile/desktop browser support for HTML5– Levels of performance– Support for functionality

HTML5’s Impact on Testing

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• New Internet addressing system ready to go

• Verizon Wireless 4G network will require compatibility with both IPv4 and IPv6

• New tech purchased by government agencies must be compatible with the new addressing scheme

#6: IPv6… Web Out of Addresses

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IPv6’s Impact on Testing

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• Juniper Research sees more than 130 million enterprise customers using mobile, cloud-based applications by 2014

• Recent IDC research shows worldwide spending on cloud services will reach $44.2 billion by 2013

• Cloud can create a more scalable, modernized and automated IT infrastructure

• BUT… on-demand creates new demands around scalability

#7: The Cloud

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• Backend Server Testing– Harder to manage– Resources scattered all over

the world– Increased number of variables,

edge cases

• Frontend UI Testing– Barriers to test decreased– Number of people capable of testing has increased – Hardware is no longer a key component to access– More open, anyone has the hardware to test– Able to test more frequently

The Cloud’s Impact on Testing

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• Several companies are working to enable businesses to use location for more than just marketing

• There are numerous applications for location-based technologies in the enterprise– Asset tracking– Routing– Geo-fencing

#8: Geo-Location

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• Location-based testing is a mobile problem

• GPS apps are being used outside the sterile confines of the testing lab, under “in the wild” conditions

• When apps and users are distributed around the country (or globe), testers should be too

• Some apps work based on where you’re standing

Geo-location’s Impact on Testing

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• Not really definable, but, per the Wikipedia – These data stores may not require fixed table schemas, and usually

avoid join operations and typically scale horizontally.

• Types– Key value stores– Wide column stores– Graph databases

• Reasons it’s booming– Designed to handle large numbers of transactions– No need to manage a complex replication infrastructure– Works well with other systems– Learning curve is shallow

#9: Not Only SQL

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• Enables vast, on-demand scalability

• Use Cases– Managing large streams of non-transactional data– Syncing online and offline data– Fast response times under all loads– Avoiding heavy joins for when the query load for complex joins

become too large for a RDBMS– Soft real-time systems where low latency is critical - games are one

example

NoSQL’s Impact on Testing

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• Enterprise transition is underway – from silos of discrete software solutions to app marketplaces

• More tightly weaving social into business processes

• Gartner predicts that by 2016, social technologies will be integrated with most business apps– Social networking — Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter– Social collaboration — Wikis, Blogs, Instant Messaging– Social publishing/feedback — YouTube, Flickr, Digg

#10: Social Media

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• Enterprise adoption of social networking presents security hurdles

• Companies that communicate with customers, partners, investors via Facebook & Twitter must protect sensitive data

• Also, testing enterprise integration with third party apps is increasingly vital

Social’s Impact on Testing

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• Billions of dollars and the future of software

• Pressure on firms (and tech/QA leaders) to build, test & launch high-quality apps never been greater

• No industry is immune from waves of innovation

• Software testing will evolve & innovate– will you be a leader or a laggard?

• Consumerization of enterprise applications enables users to turn data into action when & where they are

– Increased connectivity, speed, access, sharing– Lower barriers to entry

In Conclusion