With his presentation Andrzej will show how to create responsibility for the quality in the whole team, preventing bugs, integrating the team and sharing knowledge about how to test. To achieve that he will present a shift-left approach, which is the answer for the need of delivering faster while keeping a high quality of the application. During the presentation he will also speak about Session Based Testing as a natural extension of the mentioned approach and evidence of completed work. During the early phases of software development it can be used in QA Hug and QA Demo to collect test data, describe automation scope or collect notes from pairing Developer and QA. All of this is presented as a summary of already successfully delivered projects. So come and listen to how shift-left and session based testing works in practice and how they can be combined into one process.

1. Session based testing and shift
left approach as a way to
improve quality in a project

2. HELLO!
I am Andrzej Dolinski
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer @Cognifide
Co-founder of @DebatQA
You can find me at:
@DolinskiAndrzej
@danon9111
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3. Shift-left approach
What does this mean?

4. “Is an approach to software testing
and system testing in which testing
is performed earlier in the lifecycle
4Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-left_testing

5. “Suggesting that testing shouldn't be
held until the last few days before a
release is the easiest way of
explaining the ideas in the phrase
'shift left'.
5Source: https://smartbear.com/learn/automated-testing/shifting-left-in-testing/

6. Agile?
Is that you?

7. 7Source: https://giphy.com/gifs/problem-VZ5gRT17YNkn6

8. What does
“earlier” mean?
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9. Requirements
gathering
Project
discovery
Analysis
Project
planning
Sprint
planning
Coding Code Review Testing
Release

10. Requirements
gathering
Project
discovery
Analysis
Project
planning
Sprint
planning
Coding Code Review Testing
Release

11. Requirements
gathering
Project
discovery
Analysis
Project
planning
Sprint
planning
Coding Code Review Testing
Release

12. How do we
know, we are
doing that?
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😒

13. It depends
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14. Requirements
gathering
Project
discovery
Analysis
Project
planning
Sprint
planning
Coding Code Review Testing
Release

15. The whole team
is responsible for
the quality!
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16. Session Based
Testing
○ Mission
○ Session
○ Session Report
○ Timebox
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17. Requirements
gathering
Project
discovery
Analysis
Project
planning
Sprint
planning
Coding Code Review Testing
Release
QA Hug
QA Demo

18. QA Hug
○ What are we doing?
○ How do we want to test?
○ What edge cases should we consider?
○ What automated tests to create?
○ Who is going to create the automated tests?
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19. 19Source: https://www.stickyminds.com/article/shift-left-approach-software-testing

20. QA Demo
○ How the new feature works?
○ Have all the requirements been met?
○ Have all automated tests pass?
○ Have all test ideas been checked?
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21. Shift-left approach
Responsibility
The whole Team feels responsibility for the quality
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22. Shift-left approach
Knowledge Sharing
Developers guides QA’s and QA’s guides Developers
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23. Shift-left approach
Bus factor
The whole Team is familiar with the whole system
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24. Shift-left approach
Documentation
Based on test sessions we can create scenarios for automated
tests and valuable documentation
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25. Shift-left approach
Risk mitigation
QA’s are not waiting fot the bugs, they prevent them
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26. Shift-left approach
Feedback
Team gets quick feedback about the quality of both –the
product and their work
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27. Shift-left approach
Responsibility
The whole Team feels
responsibility for the quality
Knowledge
Sharing
Developers guides QA’s and QA’s
guides Developers
Bus factor
The whole Team is familiar with
the whole system
Documentation
Based on test sessions we can
create scenarios for automated
tests and valuable documentation
Risk mitigation
QA’s are not waiting fot the bugs,
they prevent them
Feedback
Team gets quick feedback about
the quality of both –the product
and their work
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28. Trust
the
Team!
28Photo by Perry Grone on Unsplash

29. THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
@DolinskiAndrzej
@danon9111
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30. CREDITS
Special thanks to all the people who made and released
these awesome resources for free:
○ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
○ Photographs by Unsplash
○ Backgrounds by SubtlePatterns
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