AZESQR_2015_2016

Q13
How do you improve the competency level of your software testers?
30%
23%
21% 19%
In-house Trainings
We hire only
experienced specialists
International
recognized trainings
Conferences and
Seminars
7%
Other
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Q14
Analysis of Current Situation
According to the survey results, organizations
mostly prefer to train the testers in-house, during
the work process or prefer to hire experienced
testers. Improving the competency level of testers
by international recognized trainings comes after
the in-house or on the job trainings. The other
way of competency development is participation
to the software testing conferences and seminars
also has sufficient ratio which is 19%.
Future Prediction
Since software testing is an essential part of SDLC,
in coming years international recognized trainings
will become a hot topic on development of software
testers’ competency level in organizations. With
increasing number of software testers and higher
quality objectives of companies, widely recognized
technical certifications like ISTQB will also be the
most important tools for testers to differentiate
themselves from other professionals for getting
promotions or the jobs they want.
What are the trends that you are most interested in software testing industry?
Azerbaijan Testing Board (AZTB) is a non-profit
organization founded in 2014 by a group of IT
professionals and academicians. AZTB has been
submitted as a Local Member Board on June
4, 2014 during the ISTQB® General Assembly
Meeting in London and represents ISTQB® as a
Member Board in Azerbaijan Republic.
AZTB Board Members volunteer their time for
development and promotion of ISTQB® Certified
Tester program and generate the awareness of
Software Testing in Azerbaijan.
www.azertestingboard.org
66% 44%
41%
37%
17%
2%
Performance
Tests
Usability
Testing
Analysis of Current Situation
Mobile App
Testing
Respondents consider performance test as the
hottest trend followed by usability testing and
mobile testing techniques.
Cloud Testing
Future Prediction
M2M, IoT
Testing
Other
Most of the companies especially in Finance, Telco
and IT industries have formed testing teams as
separate organizational units. This new organizational
structure brings new management issues. How
many testers should be employed, which test
design techniques to adapt and what kind of tools
to invest are some of the issues tried to be clarified
by management teams. Organizations primarily will
focus on major guidelines for management to build
their own software testing roadmap such as TMMi
assessment. Furthermore, due to the formation of
competitive environment in the market, usability
testing will remain as a hot topic in the future.
ISTQB® is the International Software Testing
Qualifications Board. ISTQB® has created the
world’s most successful scheme for certifying
software testers. It is a non-profit association,
created and developed international recognized
body of knowledge (Syllabi) for software testing
standards and has issued more than 400,000
certification globally based on this standards.
www.istqb.org
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