Lean software testing approach for cycle time reduction

1. Lean Testing approach for Execution
Cycle Time Reduction
CHANDAN P

2. Purpose and Objectives
 About Lean thinking
 Systemic thinking
 Lean Test Team members
 Cycle time reduction steps
 Incremental testing
 Requirement Engineering
 Gamification
 Optimized the whole flow
 Impact based testing
 Visual dashboard
 Result and collaboration

3. What are the identified factors for
lean thinking?

4. System thinking

5. How lean test engineers should
think?

6. What are the steps for cycle
time reduction?

7. Build and test in incremental way.
 What to Build? -
Build-Show-
change……..What to
build? ……..
Cycle goes on

8. Four areas to focus
 The customer is the starting point. Testing should focus on
adding the best value to all stakeholders. E.g. set priorities based
on a product risk analysis.
 Improve your test processes. Use models and methods as reference,
but not as target. Use what suits best to the organization’s own
processes.
 Ensure teamwork. Not only within the test team but also with the
other members within your projects.
 Collecting and analyzing data. Improving the test process cannot be
done without measuring the effect of the changes made in the
process. Keeping metrics, analyzing them and taking action should
become a company’s second nature.

9. Requirement Engineering:
 Requirement management is a
engineering subject which
need to handle with care

10. Test Team Structure
 Flat team with poly skill team members is more agile.

11. Leaderboard for Gamification
specific for a team

12. Optimizing the flow

13. Impact based testing
 Why to run all the test cases?
Only affected area has to cover.

14. Project dashboard for decision
making

15. Factors influences cost
reduction

16. Types testing vs cost effect

17. Result

18. Extreme collaboration

19. Communication Barrier need to
remove for speed

20. Key Takeaway

21. Q&A