The document discusses 9 themes related to testing event-driven architectures, self-adaptive automation frameworks, test process automation, contributing back to the test community, intelligent test analytics frameworks, continuous performance and security testing, codeless test automation, automated testing for wearable devices, and exploring new automation libraries. The themes cover a wide range of testing topics including testing microservices, self-healing test automation, test management integration, open source contributions, test data analytics, load and security testing, minimal code approaches, and testing emerging technologies.

1. S. No. Theme Scope Reference
1
Testing event-driven
architectures
In a Microservices stack, Testing event production, schema checks, event
transmit, event consumption etc.,
2
Self-Adaptive automation
frameworks
Auto-capture of elements(UI), auto-healing of broken locators, auto-modeling
of request/response given JSONs etc.,
3 Test Process automation Updating test management tools via scripts etc.,
4
Contributing back to the Test
community Fork any open source library, add new features or fix known defects
5 Intelligent Test Analytics
Frameworks capable to gather data from past executions & implement
analytics algorithms for creating reports w.r.t. unstable tests, execution time
and other params as applicable
6
Continuous
Performance/Security testing
Writing effective load/stress tests and making them part of CI/CD pipelines;
writing automated tests to unveil security vulnerabilities
7 Codeless Test Automation
Explore automation libraries that allow less code, more test coverage (barring
Ekam)
8
Automated testing for Wearable
devices Google eye-wear, smart watches etc.
9 Next big thing!!!
Explore and implement new automation libraries(recent, beta versions) in the
industry with capabilities never seen before or implementation(s) made easy