IT seems to reshape with an increasing speed. So it seems, at least, because a lot of publications and presentation suggest that important changes already happening and testing is staying behind. What are these developments, what is their impact on testing? What should we do? Is it just a hype, or do we risk of losing our job? This presentation aims to help participants to anticipate on the future needs and demands. This will help testers keeping happy in their job and sustaining the value of the profession. Integration between IT and business is definitely a topic in this talk.

1. Set your
Course
Future Roles and Trends in
Testing
Huib Schoots

4. https://www.testnet.org

5. Main message
• Times are changing, are you?
• IT is changing fast
• Adapt or …

6. Trends in the world
• BRIC countries
• Demographic changes
• “Property” changes in “use”
• Compliance
• Ecological awareness
• New energy sources
• Technological improvement

7. Trends in the way we work
• DEVOPS
• Agile
• Continuous Integration / Delivery /
Deployment
• Flexible working
• BYOD
• Self steering
• Visual thinking

8. Trends in IT
• Cloud
• Appification
• Mobile
• Open source
• Social media
• Collaborative apps
• Geographic data
• Big data

9. Discuss
• What are the most important trends that will
impact our craft?
• What are the skills testers need to cope with
the change ahead?
• What makes you a Hero or Zero?
• What do you need to do to Qualify or
Disqualify?

10. Huib Schoots
huib.schoots@codecentric.nl
@huibschoots
www.huibschoots.nl/blog
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