How to ensure software quality in the new infrastructure? Cloud testing becomes a popular service

Recently, "new infrastructure" has become popular. Overnight, from national policies to enterprises and media, they are all actively working on the areas involved in new infrastructure. With the further interpretation of the policy, the concept of "new infrastructure" (full name: new infrastructure construction) is basically positioned in seven major sectors including 5G infrastructure, ultra-high voltage, intercity high-speed railways and intercity rail transit, charging piles, big data centers, artificial intelligence, and industrial Internet. However, the essence of "new infrastructure" is still the construction of information digitalization infrastructure.

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Compared with the previous large-scale "infrastructure", the most important point of "new infrastructure" is the shift from the pursuit of high growth to the pursuit of high-quality development. As we all know, the software testing industry in the construction of information digital infrastructure is the foundation of the new infrastructure and an important means of information system quality assurance. With the development of the new infrastructure, it has also entered a "race against time" construction period. As enterprises resume production and work, the shortage of talents in the testing industry has also risen rapidly, and even many test leaders of Internet companies and software companies have been "targeted" by headhunters.

The head of a representative enterprise undergoing information transformation also said in a previous media interview: "The beginning of the year is usually an urgent period for project time, and the demand for development and testing personnel is very high. Although work has gradually resumed, it is still difficult to recruit and recruit testers. Recruitment can generally only be conducted through remote interviews, and the speed at which testers who pass the interview can take up their posts is generally not very fast."

On the other hand, senior practitioners in the testing industry have also become the target of some "enterprises". Industry insiders revealed that headhunters in the talent market have begun to look for "testing industry experts" and related testing industry job recommendations, and have offered very considerable salaries and benefits.

Faced with strong demand, "cloud testing" using the "cloud" service model has also become the best choice for many companies with testing needs. In addition to solving current problems such as tight projects and lack of personnel, cloud testing's contribution to reducing costs and increasing efficiency in the entire testing industry has also been gradually understood by everyone. Take Testin Cloud Testing, the pioneer of the cloud testing model, as an example: whether it is an Internet company or a traditional enterprise in transition, handing over all testing to Testin Cloud Testing can increase efficiency by at least 50% and reduce costs by at least 30%. For example, a company's testing team has 10 people. Using Testin Cloud Testing's cloud testing service, first of all, the hardware cost can be reduced by more than half. In addition to the purchase of hardware costs, the manpower can be reduced by at least half to 5 people. It can even be done without a fixed testing team and completely adopt the cloud testing model. Assuming that the salary of a test engineer is 15,000 to 20,000 yuan/month, hiring one less person will save at least 200,000 yuan in costs a year, and for this company, the testing cost will be reduced by at least one million yuan.

The cloud testing model allows enterprises to submit test tasks to the cloud testing platform at any time and anywhere in the world, without being restricted by time and space. While saving manpower and software development time, it greatly improves the software industry and mobile Internet field's grasp of software quality. At a time when talent is in short supply, this model of transforming testing into "cloud" + enterprise services has become the mainstream of the industry.

"New infrastructure" is different from traditional infrastructure. It emphasizes information technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and industrial Internet, and endows information construction with technological connotations in all walks of life. We can see that under the wave of new infrastructure, while many companies are still thinking about how to get closer to new infrastructure, some companies that use enterprise services and model innovation have easily submitted their own answers.