Ensuring software quality and innovation through continuous testing

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General objective

At the end of the course, you will know the necessary steps to implement a continuous software testing strategy in your organisation.

Who is this training for?

This course is aimed at executives, managers, change agents, Lean agents, leaders or quality and continuous improvement specialists.

Benefits

• Continuous testing improves your ability to deliver quickly and flexibly while taking a "controlled" risk.
• Continuous testing approaches allow you to continue to innovate while avoiding system failures that affect your operations and those of your customers.
• Continuous testing allows you to deliver your value-added IT solutions before your competitors and to the satisfaction of your customers.

Details of the course

The programme is based on the main concepts of continuous testing and on the participants' shared experience. In order to consolidate the learning, exercises with high added value for the understanding and use of continuous testing concepts are integrated into the programme.

Prerequisites

Be involved, in some way, in software or information systems quality assurance and testing. Prior knowledge of the main activities of the software development life cycle is required. Knowledge of testing and automation is an advantage, but not mandatory.

Why take this course?

Any transformation brings profound changes, both technological and cultural, as it requires a change in attitude among individuals, regardless of their hierarchical level. This training will enable you to master the strategy necessary to set up a sustainable continuous testing approach.

You will learn new software testing skills and consolidate existing ones through exposure to modern and proven methods.

Expected benefits?

• Deliver new features with speed and confidence, to give you a competitive edge.
• Protect the reputation and profitability of your organisation by avoiding quality problems.
• Control your software development lifecycle by giving you visibility and control over the value of what you build.

Examples of training benefits in figures

Following an international survey, the Continuous Testing Report 2020 shows that organisations that have adopted continuous testing :

• Improve production velocity by up to 70%, reducing development sprints from 3 to 1 week
• Reduce development effort by 30%, because testing is under control

Did you know that testing is used to reduce the risks inherent in your projects and IT solutions? Without testing, your deliveries are risky.

Phase 1 - Preparing for the continuous test

Know the 7 success factors

Phase 2 - Determining the right pace for successful implementation of the continuous testing approach

Mastering the basic ingredients:

• Processes to be put in place according to the level of maturity
• Links with the DevOps approach

Phase 3 - The principles of the continuous testing approach

Knowing and implementing :

• Shifting left
• Test orchestration
• Infrastructure and support processes
• Shifting right
• The quality organisation

Phase 4 - Creating an effective continuous testing strategy

The implementation of your continuous testing approach by :

• Determining what to test
• Achieving risk management
• Determine your quality and delivery targets
• Respect the test pyramid
• Determine the levels and types of testing required
• Describe your deployment pipeline
• Know the pitfalls to avoid