Testing Challenger Flashcards
1. INSIGHT Warmer
Opening Statement:.The software testing industry is evolving at an enormous pace. Clients are under increasing pressure to streamline their testing environment and processes with main objectives being to lower cost, increase quality, and speed time to market. The challenge has been further complicated by trends such as:
1.DisruptiveTechnology
SoLoMo has resulted in software being integrated virtually into everything.
` immense pressure to ensure that apps are reliable, scalable, private and secure across a multiple platforms including handsets, tablets, OS, browsers and locations.
- Agile and DevOps continuous release models have the ability to dramatically improve quality across the entire SW dev life cycle as well as time to market through continuous integration. tools. Continuous testing is something that we will be seeing a lot this year as companies today are more focused on getting into the delivery phase without having to wait for long. Testing in production is one approach that will be commonly used by testers in order to provide a constant flow of updates on how the software is shaping up with respect to its features and value to business.
- Cloud-based Testing
IT mainstream with about 26% of software applications to be hosted on cloud by 2015, Cloud infrastructure offers a consumption based pay as you use model unlike other test environments which can be difficult and expensive to build and maintain.
- Regulatory Compliance for clients that have concerns around data privacy and security
2. Reframe:
Opening Statement: With downward pressures on budgets that see 70-80% of their budget being consumed by ‘run & maintain’ activities, the case for a re-think is clear. A new approach to Testing isn’t a nice to have any more - it’s necessary for survival. What are your thoughts on these challenges? I suggest that a new paradigm of testing must be embraced to meet the tremendous challenges your facing. Things to consider include:
- A holistic approach to address the Testing QA needs across the SDLC
- Robust Automation Solution with measurable ROI and benefits
- Strategy to implement Continuous Delivery by eliminating traditional silos of dev QA production
- Evaluate Testing as a Service with a pay as you go cost model
- Requirements Ambiguity Testing and Statistical Prediction to uncover defects early in the cycle
- Testing of End to End business processes is a trend growing rapidly according to Gartner
According to Gartner :
”The primary area of more improvement from providers is more expertise with new technology areas such as mobile, cloud, analytics, and social”
3. IMPACT: Rational Drowning:
••Opening Statement: ••Imagine results such as:
- Improve quality by 20-30%
- Reduce Time to Market by 20-40%
- Reduce cost by 15-30%
4. Emotional Impact: A recent case study showed
Quality “Delivered 50% increase in quality by reduction of post production defects and increased reliability of systems”
Automation “Realised 50% reduction in warranty defects, 60% increase in test automation over 12 months”
Savings “Delivered in excess of $1.6M savings in year 1 - savings stand at $5.5M in 15 months. Reduced production issues by over 50% despite a 4 x increase in activity”
Regression Effort: “Reduced the regression effort from 42 person days to 6 person days”
Zero Defect “Delivered over 60 projects to date, all of which have had zero production defects”
5. SOLUTION: New Way Forward
Opening Statement: The solution to address your objective of strengthen your QA organization can be executed through the following three parallel tracks.
Track 1 – Test Automation (8 Months)
- A focus on simplifying the test automation process and enhance the test automation coverage across the SDLC.
- Build an automation framework that will support automation of end to end business processes.
- Focus on establishment of Continuous integration setup to enable quality code deployments.
Track 2 – Test Environment – Cloud/Virtualization POC (1.5 Months)
Conduct a POC exercise to understand feasibility of moving applications into the cloud. The focus will be on determination whether the system can support multiple connections for separate cloud instances and document risks and constraints of moving applications to cloud.
Track 3 – TCoE Implementation (3 Years; Steady State from Year 2 onwards)
A phased approach to implement TCoE framework consisting of test management consultants, SMEs, test leads (data management and functional) who will focus on improving following area
»Requirement planning and management
»Defect slippage in production and UAT environments
»Streamlining test data management process
»Enhancing test coverage across applications
6. CSC Offerring:
Opening Statement: Why CSC? CSC, according to Gartner has a strong vision for how its testing offering should support clients though the entire SDLC and how testing should be implemented to support the transformation and modernization journey through application of end-end business process automation to testing..
- CSC is a recognized leader in establishing enterprise TCoE with over 9000 testing consultants
- We can significantly reduce cost thru our TaaS model
- TaaS allows quick ramping of resources
- CSC has advanced test environments, best of breed automation tools, and the latest test platforms
- We are specialized in end to end SDLC testing including business process testing
