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In the process of software quality assurance (QA), software testing is one of the key elements without which it cannot be ensured whether a software is compliant to certain standards or not.

Software products are deemed "fit for use" once they have been tested and have acquired a software quality assurance (QA) certificate.

According to the most notable software testing trends of 2012, the software testing industry will look much more different in the future.

Software development has considerably changed as a means of support the changes and transformation occurring in business projects.

Thus, new trends have shown up in the software testing industry such as:

• Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Web based applications
• Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)

Soft testing trends have momentously changed as a result of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), which is among the latest software technologies that have recently emerged. Various major conclusions can be drawn from SOA as to how software testing can be designed and performed.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Another entirely different view of software testing is also presented in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS), which has also become a software testing trend. In SaaS, a service provider or a vendor hosts a software application, and customers are able to access the software over a network like the internet.

Thus, software testing has to be carried out accordingly. These two modern complex technologies are among the biggest trends in the software testing industry of today.

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Another latest methodology in software testing that among the most notable current software testing trends is Test Driven Development or TDD. In comparison to conventional software testing methodologies, TDD makes it possible for the software source code to be thoroughly unit-tested, which is the reason it has become so trendy these days.

Testing first software development and refactoring are combined in TDD. Using tools for the improvement of code coverage is among the optimizations to TDD. Since detecting defects in software and fixing them becomes possible with the TDD methodology as soon as software source codes are written, therefore, this method has become very popular.

Web Based Testing

One of the most popular current software testing trends is web testing that focuses on the testing of web-based applications. Web applications these days are being developed at a very rapid pace and web testing seems like a convenient way of dealing with issues in a web-based software system before it becomes available to the public.

Since the integrity of business operations often depends on the web applications that are accessible to a huge audience. Thus, web testing seems like a convenient way of ensuring that a web application is fully functional without any faults.

It is apparent of how the software testing industry is changing and how it might get altered in the coming future. These were some of the most notable recent software testing trends that have not only increased the importance of software testing and quality Assurance but have changed the method of software testing too.