2015 witnessed tremendous increase in adoption of digital transformation, and digital assurance will now play a key role in 2016. According to Pradeep Govindasamy, CTO & President – Americas at Cigniti Technologies, following are the key software testing trends for this year.

Digital Assurance: It ensures successful digital transformation by executing comprehensive testing across the digital value chain from content creation to content distribution covering the entire digital ecosystem – Social Media, Mobility, Big Data & Analytics, and Cloud.

Security Testing: Enormous data is accessed and shared via web-based, mobile and cloud-based applications. Security testing will become a strategic business priority for many organizations to curb data breach.

Test Data Management (TDM): To create, manage and maintain complex data sets is a challenge especially while testing in Agile and DevOps environments. This ensures a growing need for TDM services.

Client Centric TCoEs: Organizations today seek to set up Agile TCoEs to be more flexible and collaborative with SDLC. Setting up customized, client-centric TCoEs is one of the key trends to watch out for this year.

Test Automation: It will grow enormously with robust automated testing tools delivering bug-free, high-quality software. Test automation will drive the future of software testing and help avoid routine testing, enabling test engineers to focus on complex test scenarios.

Testing in Agile & DevOps Environments: Organizations gradually embracing Agile and DevOps practices to reduce time to market, will gain the competitive edge.

Wearable and IoT testing: As enormous data is collected and exchanged across multiple channels and platforms, wearable and IoT testing is becoming unavoidable.

Telematics Testing: With the growing demand for smarter automobiles, software testing and validation of automotive infotainment and telematics technologies is becoming crucial.

Quality Engineering: Organizations are seeking comprehensive, collaborative and robust Quality Engineering (QE) Services beyond the traditional QA.

Service Virtualization: Service Virtualization will continue to play a significant role by the increasing adoption of Agile & DevOps practices.

Cigniti is fast-aligning itself to tap the demand for software testing services and will see a huge growth in 2016.

About Cigniti

Cigniti Technologies Limited (BSE: 534758, www.cigniti.com), Global Leaders in Independent Software Testing Services, is headquartered at Hyderabad, India. Cigniti’s 2000+ experts are spread across US, UK, India, Australia, and Canada. Cigniti is the world’s first Independent Software Testing Services Company to be appraised at CMMI-SVC v1.3, Maturity Level 5. Cigniti’s 18 test offerings include services in Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Next Generation Testing, and Core Testing. With over a decade of experience in serving several Fortune 500 enterprises, Cigniti has translated its ideas into SMART Tools™ to accelerate test efforts. Cigniti has cutting edge testing labs in the areas of Enterprise Mobility, Cloud enabled Performance engineering, Robotics, IoT & Smart Meters. Leading Analysts like Gartner, Forrester, NelsonHall, Everest, Frost & Sullivan, and Forbes have recognized, awarded & commended Cigniti for its leadership and growth in the independent software testing services space.