Software and software development are pervasive and omni-present today – across domains, technologies, geographies. A lot of role change has been happening in software teams including tighter collaboration amongst developers and testers. However, one question that lingers, as millions of lines of software code gets churned is “Are developers able to do justice across all attributes of product development?”. Software development is not just about core functionality of what the software is to deliver on, but increasingly other aspects including performance, security, usability, accessibility, linguistic aspects etc. Ignoring some of these early on in development can turn out to be very expensive if not impossible to achieve with existing architecture down the line, potentially impacting product acceptance not just overall development costs. When it comes to product architects as well as software testers, we often see both generalists as well as specialists – for example, you have core functional testers and ones that specialize in automation, performance, security, accessibility testing etc. Similarly you have security architects, performance architects who focus on those aspects of the product.

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