Why and how testing should be shifting left & shifting right to deliver Business Value

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Align Testing With The Business
By Shifting Left & Right
Joel Montvelisky
PractiTest Co-Founder & Chief Solution Architect

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About Me!
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(last 24 years)
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Joel Montvelisky
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The Cloud / DevOps Disruption

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How did we get to DevOps?

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✓ No more shipping CDs / posting download links
✓ Full control of the server infrastructure
✓ Deploy as frequently as needed
✓ Instrumentation ⇒ No more flying blind!
The Cloud / DevOps Disruption

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It’s now more cost-effective
to “find” some bugs in production
The Cloud / DevOps Disruption

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A different set of rules, speed and constraints
The Cloud / DevOps Disruption

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Before we start “shifting”
…
some important adaptations

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More Than Before - It’s About Risk Management
☯ Pre-Deployment vs. In-Production testing
☯ Speed vs. Required stability
☯ Proactivity vs. Reactivity

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It’s Critical To Model Your System & Environments
✎ Evaluate changes and risks
✎ Have predefined responses for issues
✎ Facilitate communication between scattered teams

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Check Out The Holistic Testing Approach
By Janet Gregory
https://janetgregory.ca/testing-from-a-holistic-point-of-view/

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Let’s Go Ahead
and Shift Left

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User Story Formatting & Planning
● Test Scenarios / Acceptance Criteria
● Important quality factors
● Required instrumentation
● Deployment considerations:
Feature Flags, Partial Updates, Migrations, etc.

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User Story Value Hypothesis (USVH)
1. Clear understanding of the value seeked
2. Define metrics & benchmarks
3. Ensure instrumentation
4. Coordinate as part of the Dev and Ops tasks

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Test Planning
✓ Application and Environment modeling
✓ What to test before deployment?
What in production?
✓ Analyse required deployment tests (if/when needed)

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Shift-Left Testing
⇽ Include Unit & Integration Tests into traceability
⇽ Test coaching and enablement for non-testers
⇽ Pair testing/feedback sessions during development

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Let’s Push Forward
And Shift Right

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Deployment Operations
🛫 Deployment / Rollback testing
🛫 1 min / 5 min / 30 min monitoring
🛫 Dark Launching / Feature Flags
🛫 Blue Green Deployment / Canary Release

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Automation In Production (?)
☸ Short sanity as part of 5 min monitoring
☸ Continuous Functional & API testing on prod environment
☸ Live dashboards

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Monitor & Analytics
📊 Exception and Alert monitoring
📊 User behaviour analytics ❗❗
📊 USHV dashboards
📊 Feedback sessions with real users

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It’s An On-Going
Improvement Project

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Do, Fail, Learn, Change, Evolve
↻ Try things, you need to fail on your road to success
↻ Listen to feedback from your team
↻ Learn from the community
↻ Embrace change

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It’s Not About Testing.
It’s Not About Quality.
It’s About The Business!
Finally…

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Thank you!
joel@practitest.com
@joelmonte
https://www.practitest.com/