What type of QA engineer are you?  Quality Assurance, or Quality Assistance?

Shift-left is an approach to software development where testing is performed earlier in the lifecycle—in effect, moved left on the project timeline. Shifting left does not refer only to dynamic testing, or actually running the system; it also can refer to static testing, so it means conducting reviews and inspections too, as well as more unit and integration testing instead of GUI-based testing. 

To help make it easier to build Kubernetes applications, Red Hat and the Kubernetes open source community today share the Operator Framework – an open source toolkit designed to manage Kubernetes native applications, called Operators, in a more effective, automated, and scalable way.

From the way we look at software, evaluate risks, think about complexity, design our test approach and strategy, and help to release a stable product to the customer, technology has had an influence on how we test software. And that influence will only continue as technology advances. On a high level, here are five key things we’re already seeing that are going to shape the future of software testing.