Abstract: In an Agile world,we are being asked to move faster—reducing the length of time to delivery while still continuing to improve the quality. At the same time, we are faced with increased pressure to reduce testing costs. The main aim of Shifting left is ‘Early Defect Detection to Defect Prevention’. Bugs are cheaper when caught young. Being a testing professional during start of his career where he has seen the agile transformation from ground zero. He has experienced all what a tester can face usually in start of a agile way of working. Most difficult phase is shift from defect identification or detection mode towards a more collaborative approach of defect prevention. Why a tester was no more quality police and he/she is not the sole responsible person for quality but it was whole team. Development teams need to focus on quality from the beginning, instead of waiting for errors & bugs to be discovered late in the game. These learning and many more in his early career helped him when he started coaching agile teams for delivering better quality product. In recent time where he was leading a transformation , one of the major ask was to break the boundaries and silos between development and system testing teams. This topic is close to his heart because he practiced, performed and tried to perfect time and again. He want to share How “Shift-Left” Testing Can Help Your Product Quality? What it means to testing community, with vastly different skill sets, are getting involved in the testing process. More specifically, it means that development teams are being incorporated into the testing cycle earlier than ever before. Key Takeaways 1. Why "Shift Left" and what it is ? Shift Left Testing will be explained and demonstrated 2.What Should we Do Differently In Shift Left? - This will help you understand how to implement and practice shift left 3. What are the best practices of getting started to apply Shift Left Testing in your organisation? 4. We will list all the challenges and benefits one can face shifting the test strategies at team, program and org level.

1. Shifting Gears for
better quality or faster delivery…
Shift Left or Shift Right!
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Ashish Kumar
Agile and Lean Coach , Siemens Technologies

2. A Case Study – What we could achieve
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3. Approach

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