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You Need Predictive Analytics for Your Software Testing: Here’s Why

There is a rising demand for reliability and speed in the software testing field. Predictive analytics can help with that.

January 2, 2020 Claire Mackerras Leave a Comment

Predictive Analytics benefits, software testing

Ever wondered how can you predict the possible problems in your project even before their occurrence?

There is a rising demand for reliability and speed in the software testing field. Software companies have set the bar high for applications, which is why consumers are opting for only the best.

Predictive Analytics Definition

Predictive analytics consists of predictions of unknown events based on analytics. It combines artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistical algorithms, mining, and modeling to make predictions.

Challenges in traditional software testing techniques

  • No real-time learning as there is no feedback loop
  • The main focus is on technical and business requirements. Customers’ usage patterns get ignored.
  • Inward-focused, based on the cases identified by the product team before launching the product.

How predictive analytics solves traditional software testing challenges

There are always some minor details that get left out while testing; we can never say that testing is complete.

Claire Mackerras is a Senior QA Engineer & Editor associated with Bugraptors. A certified software testing company with extensive experience as a third party testing vendor in US. She is passionate toward writing on technological trends for manual & automation software testing. She likes to share her knowledge, for the readers who are interested in exploring testing tact’s and trends.

Data is used for predicting possible scenarios, which help to understand what event led to the other.

With predictive analytics, we can predict how a user will react to a specific event based on their previous pattern.

Possible areas of bugs, possible reasons for encountering those bugs, and events leading to those bugs can be predicted through predictive analytics.

The benefit of all this is that we can modify testing methodologies by analyzing the user’s behavioral patterns, and by understanding these patterns, we can focus on the major area.

Predictive Analytics Benefits

Customer-Centric Testing

It is time to follow a customer-centric approach in testing rather than an approach that is purely requirements focused. Predictive analytics allows the testing approach to be customer based. You can know about customers’ opinions from predictive analytics, which makes the testing process customer-centric.

Through Predictive analytics, enterprises can meet digital transformation objectives effectively.

Information is Wealth

Software testing tasks generate data; every time you run a test, you create log files, reports highlighting various defects. By examining the defects, the testing team knows how the results would impact the user experience.

Testing teams align test scenarios to find issue patterns. After that, the data is combined with predictive analytics algorithms to identify patterns, which help in making accurate predictions about future failures. To mine the project repository, software testers can apply machine learning algorithms.

These algorithms help in arriving at an optimized regression suite and help in figuring out any redundant cases. Based on the previous test results, predictive analytics help in forecasting the future pass rate.

Sentimental Analysis

As we know, the customer is the king; that’s why it is crucial to pay attention to the feedback of the customer. In social media monitoring, sentimental analysis helps in understanding the feedback of customers about various applications and products. Through the sentimental analytics framework, the whole process becomes quicker and easier.

Through proven means, customer sentiments are collected; analytics techniques come in handy to arrive at insights. When a business pays attention to customer feedback and strategizes the team to fix issues, it creates a positive impression of your business in customers’ eyes.

Better Defect Detention

How can a business improve its quality? BY detecting defects! Detection of defects is the very first step towards improving quality. With the help of available data, predictive analytics detect defects in an assured way. Predictive techniques help the software team to reach to the root cause of the failures.

Increases Test Efficiency

While comparing test efficiency based on product management inputs and real-time user inputs, the former emerges as the winner. Predictive analytics helps the QA team to ensure that the customer gets what he needs.

Analyzes What Would Work Best

Predictive analytics helps the testing team gets to know what is working and whatnot and what they can improve to get the desired results. Predictive analytics makes the team better at analyzing what’s helpful and what they can do to drive better application efficiencies.

Simplifies Intuitions for Testing Activities

A huge amount of information is gathered in the software development and testing process. It has to be analyzed with the help of tools. Predictive analytics is used to evaluate impacts on customer experience, and so much more.

Saves Time and Money

Nothing saves time and money, like predictive analytics. You can take your product to market quickly with quick defect detention and increased efficiency, thanks to predictive analytics. By analyzing the past production defects, a business can know what kind of bugs get introduced, and if the bugs are because of some new functionality or new technology.

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Through predictive analytics, one can get insights to release schedule, and is the project on time or is lagging behind. If the product is not on time, it shows the reasons for the delay; one can build the strategy to handle the issues causing the delay.

Predictive analytics is one of the most discussed topics in testing. This is because predictive analytics can mitigate operational risks and helps in planning, quality, as well as delivery. It helps in predicting testing issues, which can lead to future challenges.

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