Speakers

As a quality enthusiast, I believe that people should take pride in their work and companies should aim to produce high-quality products. I have spent the last 23 years in IT, focusing on engineering, quality assurance and mentorship. I am also a huge animal lover and have saved and raised more than 50 cats and dogs.

Value, Money, and Costs: The Ultimate Common Language for the Testing Strategy

Have you ever faced the challenge of determining the right amount of testing for your product or struggled to choose the most effective testing types for your specific context? In software development, there’s no one-size-fits-all “best practice” for testing. Every product is unique — what works for a high-stakes medical device won’t suit a simple content management system.

What makes designing the testing strategy harder is that thought leaders encourage everyone to adopt shift-left, shift-right, TDD, pair programming, code reviews, and many other measures aimed at improving quality. People talk about reducing time to market, having fewer bugs, improving testability, and increasing test coverage, etc.

However, even if engineers believe a certain practice is good and matches the context, they often lack the economic justification to advocate for the practice with managers, rendering the testing strategy disconnected from product economics.

Let’s demonstrate that determining the fit-for-purpose testing approach can be straightforward. I want to help QA engineers, software developers, and managers establish a common language to reason about the testing strategy and practices — the language of value and money.