Shift-left Testing for Continuous Delivery of Quality and Value at Speed
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The document discusses the evolving role of quality assurance (QA) in organizations, emphasizing its integration into digital transformation processes for improved business outcomes and customer satisfaction. It highlights the objectives of QA, including business assurance, defect detection, user satisfaction, and the need for speed and quality in software releases. Additionally, it promotes a webinar featuring James Bach on effectively integrating testing within digital transformations.
Shift-left Testing for Continuous Delivery of Quality and Value at Speed
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- 2. www.cigniti.com | Unsolicited Distribution is Restricted. Copyright © 2017 - 18, Cigniti Technologies 2 Shift-leftTesting for Continuous Delivery of Quality and Value at Speed James Marcus Bach, Founder and CEO of Satisfice, Inc. and trainer and consultant, says, “Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.” The recently released World Quality Report paints a rather positive picture of the state of testing and QA. As the need for both Quality AND value at speed becomes imminent, software testing is gaining higher prominence for organizations trying to accelerate digital transformation. The report says, “Expectations of QA have been steadily increasing. There is an upward trend in almost every case for the objectives that include the need to support business growth and the importance of ensuring end-user satisfaction. Both of these indicate that QA is no longer seen as a backroom discipline, divorced from the rest of the organization. If you hear fewer soundbites about QA and more about digital transformation, it’s not because QA has ceased to be relevant, but because the contribution of QA is implicit in the success of the digital transformation. QA has been steadily evolving – from an independent function to an integrated function, and now to an inclusive function. Also, the role of QA practitioner is transforming from testing and finding defects, to ensuring that other engineering team members inculcate quality in their way of working. They need to do this by enabling them and by removing any impediments on their way to achieving quality objectives. QA is not only shifting left but also moving right.”
- 3. www.cigniti.com | Unsolicited Distribution is Restricted. Copyright © 2017 - 18, Cigniti Technologies 3 Shift-leftTesting for Continuous Delivery of Quality and Value at Speed Objectives of QA and testing Major business stakeholders have identified the following objectives of Quality Assurance and Testing in their organization: 1. Business assurance: Contribute to business growth and business outcomes 2. Custodian of quality: Detect software defects before go-live 3. Digital happiness: Ensure end-user satisfaction and customer experience 4. Brand ambassador: Protect the corporate image and branding 5. Quality at speed: Speed up software releases with good quality 6. Automate: Make QA and testing a smarter automated process 7. Quality enablement: Support everybody in the team to achieve higher quality Testing – Shift-left or Squish-right James defines testing as “the process of evaluating a product by learning about it through exploration and experiment”. Testing is an extensive and exhaustive process, which requires dedicated and committed individuals who can help stakeholders make the right decisions about a software product and its release. Given the demands for ‘Quality at speed’ and ‘Value at speed’, organizations have embraced a number of new technologies and methodologies. With the primary focus on ‘speed’, testing often has to suffer due to insufficient time and inadequate coverage.
- 4. www.cigniti.com | Unsolicited Distribution is Restricted. Copyright © 2017 - 18, Cigniti Technologies 4 Shift-leftTesting for Continuous Delivery of Quality and Value at Speed Cigniti has invited James Bach to speak in our upcoming webinar on how to pitch testing at the right stage of your digital transformation to see comprehensive results. The session will help the attendees understand the impact of testing at various stages of digital transformation and how it can help safeguard customers, users, and brands from embarrassing technical issues. Register for the webinar and save your spot to listen to James’ insightful presentation live on Feb 17th, 2021. Being a global leader in the independent software testing and quality engineering services, Cigniti is a strong advocate of Quality Assurance and its implementation right from the early stages of the software lifecycle. We encourage customer feedback and believe in including such feedback in our broader testing approach. We take great measures to ensure that we are fully equipped with state-of-the-art services and have partnered with other experts that specialize in providing testing services. Talk to us.
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