Is software testing at cross roads? The deck takes a critical look at various schools of thought and presents a pragmatic view of the future...

1. Testing @ Cross Roads
Sridhar Throvagunta
Global Head - Test Advisory Services
Rupesh K Garg
Senior Manager – Test Advisory Services
Insights.Assurance.Leadership
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2. Helping customers do business better…
Test Advisory Services
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3. Insights.Assurance.Leadership
White lies!
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4. Five years hence…
By 2018, testers have a
By 2018, Internet of things creates
testers!
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Insights.Assurance.Leadership
NO career!
huge opportunity for
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5. Insights.Assurance.Leadership
Winds of change…
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6. The Confluence
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Business
T-BoK
Technology
The Change Drivers
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7. Business
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Domain rich testing
Business context
Cost of poor software quality
CxO
CFO influence on IT
CMO is knocking on the CIO
Shift towards Fixed Pricing/ Outcome Based enabling
client’s ability to innovate and cut time to market
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8. Technology
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Economic value add of the Internet of Things
Mobility market will reach $1 trillion
Growing Cloud adoption to reduce CapEx
Big Data getting bigger
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9. T-BoK
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Defect Prevention over Detection
Test Life Cycle Automation
Domain based solutions
Centralization – Standardization - Optimization
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10. Insights.Assurance.Leadership
Story time
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11. Which Salesman Are You?
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Two shoe salesmen were sent to Africa to see if there
was a market for their product.
The first salesman reported back, “This is a
terrible business opportunity, no-one wears
shoes.”
The second salesman reported back, “This is a
fantastic business opportunity, no-one wears
shoes.”
What would a
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tester report!
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12. Insights.Assurance.Leadership
True Lies!
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13. A Tester Reports: Terrible!
 Who?
 Testing is Dead - Alberto Savoia, Google
 Death to the Testing Phase - Gojko Adzic, Eurostar
 Pursuing Quality? You wont get there by Testing - James
Whittaker, Google
 Why?
 Testing Slows down
 Consumes resources without any visible value
 Developers are getting better
 Tools are getting better
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14. A Tester Reports: Fantastic!
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 Who?
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That’s just a dumb slogan, Gerald Weinberg
Redistribution of testing, Paul Gerrard
Represents user and builds confidence, Sridhar
Throvagunta
 Why?
 Without testing, IT will never mature
 Checking to testing
 Testing is going beyond go/ no go decision to advisory and
risk management
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15. Insights.Assurance.Leadership
Reimagining the quality
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16. Software Testing is Serious Business
Lack of software testing led to World War – III
(Well almost ) and Gut feel saved us 
Lack of software testing killed 28 US soldiers - Gulf War
Lack of software testing led to the US blackout of 2003
Huge social cost of software failure
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17. A New Role for the Testing Discipline
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Enable Business Assurance and Confirmation
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Complete automation
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Shift Left
BVT
Business Resilience
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Shift Right – TestOps
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Test residue for product Improvement & SLA/ OLA
refinement
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Innovative commercial models
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End to End Ownership and TCO reduction
Create Business Value
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18. Thank You
Sridhar Throvagunta
Rupesh K Garg
@SriSukta
@RupeshGarg20
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