Upcoming Software Testing Crisis? Skill You Need and More TGNS51

Is there an upcoming software testing crisis? Can you guess what one of the top jobs is on indeed right now? And want to know some quick tips to scale up your end to end testing coverage? I hope the answers to these and all other end to end full pipeline DevOps automation testing, performance testing and security testing in 10 minutes or less in this episode of the Test Skill New Show. So grab your favorite cup of coffee or tea and let's do this. This episode of the Test Skill New show is sponsored by the awesome folks at applitools and applitools is a next generation test automation platform which is powered by visual AI which helps you increase quality, accelerate delivery and reduce costs. What I think is the world's most intelligent test automation platform. But singers believe it. So create your free account now by clicking on the link in the first comment down below. And while you're there, why not leave a comment, subscribe and get alerted every time I release a new episode. First up, Automation News all right, the first article comes your way via LinkedIn from Jason, talking all about much more than a framework. So so he starts off by saying there's a lot of acronyms for the same job. So what differentiates QA automation Test engineers at MassMutual from those elsewhere? And this article actually breaks it down, talks about what is their fit environment, what that's all about, what it stands for. He has a section on framework and process, what infrastructure and tools they use, what roles there are on his team. If you're looking for a real world study on how other companies succeed with automation, here's one for you. You can check it out in the first link down below. A growing trend I've seen more and more of is engineers running their test in GitHub Action. So this next article is all about how to run your UI tests in GitHub Actions as well. So this article actually shows you how to set up your UI test with Selenium in headless Mode in your GitHub Actions workflow. So it gives the scenario and actually has code for your Selenium test script. How to set it up, some more details with the conclusion and what things you could do to take it up a notch as well. So just another little quick insightful article. If you're trying to get up with GitHub Actions and you want to get your Selenium test running, here's a quick start that you can definitely check out. So this next article is kind of eye opening. It's a result of a survey recently by leapwork how 85% of US CEOs could be leaving their business open to reputational and financial risk by releasing insufficiently tested software. Why of that 85% of CEOs why they think this is possible of releasing software that hasn't been properly tested is, so long as it's patched, tested later. 79% of testers say that up to 40% of software goes to market without sufficient test. While CEOs and testers understand the consequences of releasing software that hasn't been properly tested, an alarming number still think it's acceptable to issue it and prefer to rely on patch testing afterwards to fix any problem. This often comes down to thinking there is not a viable option in choosing speed or over stability. But what is really more concerning is there is a clear disconnect between CEOs and the developer teams indicating that testing issues are falling under the radar and have not been escalated until it's too late. And you can check this all out in the first link down below. So you've probably been hearing a lot of doomsday people talking about how the economy is about to tank, how inflation is rising, and how a lot of people are going to start losing losing jobs. But but this next article, although is somewhat negative, actually is good news for testers and automation engineers. All right, so the beginning of this year and the end of last year there was a all time peak for that for people with tech skills. But this next article talks about how there's a growing trend that demand is actually cooling down. But what really caught my attention was in June REC members agencies said automation, testing, development, software engineering, technical, digital and IT were the computer contracting skills in the most demand and the most short supply. So even though if it does become a tight market for jobs, you know, if you're an automation engineer or a tester, you definitely still have the skills you need to succeed in any type of environment. So this next article and it's how using DevOps automation is going to be even a bigger skill that's going to be in demand to help combat DevOps workforce shortages that we talked about in that other survey that we went over. But some key takeaways are the current industry demand for DevOps engineering outstrips supply, meaning that 75% of future DevOps initiatives could remain unstaffed. DevOps tasks that automation should replace include security operations, deployments, continuous delivery, help with QA testing, and continuous integration. With proper execution, automation tools and products can help significantly reduce developer workloads. There's a lot in DevOps that could be done that could be automated. That doesn't necessarily apply specifically to functional automation. If you're not doing that type of automation besides functional automation, your team is definitely going to be in trouble. And this article just points out some areas of why that is the case and talking about DevOps scaling test coverage I have a great resource for you coming up on this Wednesday, so hopefully you're watching this as soon as I release it, but if not you can watch it on demand. It is a webinar on scaling end to end test coverage in the era of DevOps, 76% of organizations are undergoing DevOps adoption obviously includes speeding up throughput and releasing frequently, but at the same time expectations for great customer experiences are also increasing, with over 32% of users leaving brands after their first poor interaction. This really puts the spotlight on testing and testers and how do we deliver quality software while moving at the speed of DevOps. So definitely register for that event and hope to see you there. Next up, performance Inside Reliability News so we talked about how there's a demand for people with automation skills, how there's going to be a shortage in DevOps, and how automation plays a big role in helping you with things beyond just functional automation. So what are some of the tools you can use to help you with your DevOps Cloud SRE initiatives? Well, I found the perfect resource for you on a curated list of nine awesome free and open source tools coming to you via LinkedIn from our friend Umesh. So I've mentioned Unmesh so many times at this new show, but if you haven't already, I highly recommend if you haven't already to definitely give him a follow because he's always posting up tons of goodness. And here's just the latest one list out nine must know tools that are free and open source and this is all on LinkedIn. So great resource again Umesh, and thank you so definitely check this out and I'll have it in the first comment down below. So another pain point that seems to be increasing as we try to develop software quicker and faster and try to scale up all these environments to handle all the tests is how to optimize our Docker containers for performance. So this next article is all about optimizing Docker performance in four techniques you need to know. This is by Joel Belton and it goes over four key techniques you need to know to help with your Docker performance, which include unnecessary files, what should go into your Docker ignore file, how to use the multi stage build. So if you're looking to help increase the performance of your docker, here are four quick things you can definitely try so we covered a lot in this episode about jobs Things that are in Demand Skills are in demand. Here's another one from Indeed on a survey they've done of the top jobs so far of 2022, so let's take a look at some of the results. So these top jobs are ranked from 1 to 20 based on employer demand. And interestingly enough, the third top job from Indeed in 2022 of all the jobs possible is site reliability engineering. Next up, security testing. So I don't know why I always find this fascinating. It's when people take a tool that's supposed to help you with testing, like penetration testing, and then turn it around and to actually do malicious behavior. So first off, I learned about a new tool called Brute C4 Customized Command and control center for red teams and adversary simulations. I'm always down to learn about new tools, but unfortunately although this could be used for good, it is actually been used for malicious purposes. The article talks about how it's apparent that some cybercriminal gangs are making use of of more advanced penetration and attack simulation tools that previously were only available to nation states. So still in the early days as far as the use of BRC4 is concerned. But cybersecurity teams should expect to see many more sophisticated attacks that leverage BRC4 in the months ahead, cybersecurity team should immediately start scanning for indicators of compromise involving BRC4. So this next article is about Datadog. So Datadog has just acquired HDIV Security. So HDIV Security is a leading security testing software provider which fits in nicely with Datadog, who's known as a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. And here's the key kind of key statement from this whole article, and it is Combining security and observability provides Datadog customers unique insights into sensitive services data that are vulnerable or under attack. So regardless if you use Datadog or not, you still need to include security data as part of your observability kind of data that you're collecting. All right, for links of everything of value we covered in this news episode, head on over to the link in the first comment down below. And while you're there, make sure to check out our sponsor applitools free account offer and discover how to take your animation testing to the next level. Leveraging Visual AI.