Shifting Left – Using Cost of Quality as a Driver Against Resistance

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Shifting Left - Using Cost of Quality as a Driver
Against Resistance
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Shifting Left - Using Cost of Quality as a Driver
Against Resistance
Agile practices, being espoused almost
universally, demand that testing be done faster
and earlier in the software development lifecycle
(SDLC). Leaders of application development are
under cumulative pressure to sustain quality
while growing delivery velocity. To establish a
highly productive product delivery organization,
they should employ a shift-left approach to
testing and invest in test automation. While
shift-left testing may appear to be the ideal
approach for assisting you in the testing process
before releasing new products, the technique is
insufficient on its own. Shift-left testing must
be integrated into continuous testing so that
testers can yield more prevalent, comprehensive,
and realistic tests using real functional data.
The confluence of shift-left continuous
testing increases the automation of your
application testing and ensures that it is used
as much, as early, and as continuously as
possible throughout the product development
pipeline. While continuous testing is part of
the DevOps pipeline process for feedback on bugs,
shift-left testing focuses on defined targets.
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Shifting Left - Using Cost of Quality as a Driver
Against Resistance
What do Shift-Left and Continuous Testing mean
for your DevOps QA strategy? Continuous testing
is a process of incorporating automated tests
into the software delivery pipeline quickly,
steadily, and comprehensively. If the whole of
the DevOPs pipeline (i.e. from the plan, design,
development to implementation) is included in the
continuous testing, then the left shift will be
part of each cycle and establishes test
strategies for each work in the cycle. What is
the webinar all about? Gartner Research finds
that "Application leaders are under increasing
pressure to maintain quality while increasing the
velocity of delivery". Attend this webinar for
insights on making a case for Shift Left,
establishing an end-to-end strategy, anticipating
challenges, and managing change through a
real-world enterprise case study. About the
speakers Maryanne Fleming has worked in retail
for more than 30 years. In this time, she has
gained valuable insights while leading projects
for large multinationals such as Marks and
Spencer, Mothercare, Monsoon Accessorize and
more. As a Project Manager, she gained first-hand
experience of testing time being compressed to
hit Go Live dates, with the attendant risk to
quality, cost, and actual Go Live dates.

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Shifting Left - Using Cost of Quality as a Driver
Against Resistance
Robb is a thought leader in the domain of
software quality assurance and is based in
London. His 20 years of consulting experience has
included clients and project locations as diverse
as a global energy concern in Cape Town, a
multinational telecommunications company in
Manila, a mining company in Borneo, a global bank
in Frankfurt, a major semiconductor manufacturer
in Shanghai, and the United States Army at the
Pentagon. Who Should Attend? QA and IT leaders
from enterprises in any industry or region will
find this webinar insightful. Register for the
webinar and save your spot to listen to some
interesting insights on August 5th, 2021. Being
a worldwide leader in independent quality
engineering services, Cigniti is a strong
advocate of Quality Assurance and its
implementation right from the initial stages of
the software lifecycle. We take great measures to
make sure 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. Read Full Blog at
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