Customer as Anchor - The Stopping Challenge of Testing

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 4 Testing works with invisible ink 4 REQUIREMENTS RISKS (of problems) CODE ENVIRONMENTS …to tell if there’s more and how well we know. We target these… …to find these... Coverage Test Ideas / Experiments Information of Relevance BUSINESS TIME USER WHAT WHEN WHO HOW WHY

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 9 Nothing changes if you change nothing 9 System version running in production Testing done by development partner Testing done by the system owner System version running in production Regression testing?

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 10 If you change something… 10 System version running in production Testing done by development partner Testing done by the system owner System version running in production Regression testing? Regression testing?

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 11 Prepare to Shift: Left and Down 11 Shift Left Shift down Quality engineering over quality assurance Whole team approach Clarifying core examples Single-commit delivery Test-driven development Exploratory unit testing “77% of production bugs could have been found with a unit test” We’re still half-way into the automation transformation that AI supports.

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 14 Organizational boundaries, responsibility topologies Development partner testing Follow change. Programmatic safety net Testing services Bridging to information. Fixing phase of acceptance. Acceptance testing Domain knowledge. Realism. Short feedback cycle. Granularity. Risk coverage. Tech knowledge. Business knowledge. Demonstration.

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 15 "QA is a revenue assurance unit." - Abimbola Adegbite 15 User experiences software Support is form of failure demand with customer facing upside Customer is the organization collating all revenue and expenses Testing optimizes lifecycle costs with information

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 16 The Three Contemporary Testing Profiles (Contemporary) Exploratory Tester Start with information, document with automation. Finish with testing done. (Contemporary) Test Automation Engineer Start with automation, design for information. Finish with testing done. Programmer Start with intent, document with automation. Finish with testing done. Great collaboration skills compensate for lack in other skills. See the bigger picture for customer benefit.

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© 2024 CGI Inc. 20 Customer as anchor 20 Anchor to a baseline in production. Human-size steps. Frequent to continuous delivery Reassignment of organizational testing responsibilities Left and down. Structural trust through automation. Same test is not same test by acceptance and system tester unless we collaborate on hands-on work and examples. Learning to agree scope and address risk. Decompose end to end automation to understanding in end to end.

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