Most of us assume we are adding great value. The only source of truth seems to be around the year-end discussions. We get excited about appreciation emails but is that the reality? In search of reality, Pradeep asked tough questions to employees, customers, C level people and found some answers of business value of testing. Is Testing a cost or value? Does testing improve revenues? Does testing improve profitability? Do C level people even care to know what is happening in Testing? Do V level people care? What do they care about? Find answers to those questions in this talk.

2. Is there a business value for testing?
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3. The banana leaf meals analogy
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4. The banana leaf meals analogy
This is me, today.
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5. You are an important person in this world.
True or False?
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6. True in our personal lives
if we are cheerful and a humane person
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7. True in business lives
Only if we are adding revenue or profits + professional, ethical & humane
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8. Is your testing adding revenue or profit?
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9. How do you know?
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10. The pilot and the aeroplane analogy
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11. Testing is invisible value for business.
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12. How much value will you put to something invisible?
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13. 3 steps of growth inside Testing
Find Bugs
Prevent Bugs + Find Bugs
Help people to test
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14. What is the $ value for these roles?
Find Bugs
Prevent Bugs + Find Bugs
Help people to test
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15. What is the $ value for these roles?
Find Bugs
Prevent Bugs + Find Bugs
Help people to test
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What Testers think?
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16. What is the $ value for these roles?
Find Bugs
Prevent Bugs + Find Bugs
Help people to test
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$ $
$ $ $ $
Reality
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17. People make more money finding
one bug in bug bounty!
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18. Who values testing?
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19. Engineering & Product
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20. How much do they value it?
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21. Does testing feature in top 3 priorities of a CTO?
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22. Does testing feature in top 3 priorities of a CPO?
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23. Does testing feature in top 3 priorities of a VP Engg?
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24. Then who?
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25. Testing features in top 3 priorities for those who test!
care to
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26. Testing doesn’t help improve revenue or profits.
directly
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27. No company in the world has ever said the
reason for their failure is because of poor testing.
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28. No company in the world has ever said the
reason for their failure is because of poor testing.
We like to think so.
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29. The older you get in testing, the reality strikes.
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32. Testing stems from life.
To understand testing one has to understand life.
That’s why most won’t understand it, in this life.
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33. Flight path analogy to career in testing
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34. Secret of successful people in Testing
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35. Career Analysis of Super Successful People
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36. Career Analysis of Super Successful People in Test
Great Testing
Great Impact
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37. Career Analysis of Super Successful People in Test
Great Testing
Great Impact
Could have been the ceiling
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38. Career Analysis of Super Successful People in Test
Great Testing
Great Impact
Found the escape velocity
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39. Strive to become a great engineer, first.
What we can learn the Super Successful!
Competent engineers solve problems.
Incompetent engineers build their CV into a list of tools.
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40. Unless you care for people - you can’t make Impact.
What we can learn the Super Successful!
Stop being too busy caring just for your growth
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41. Being famous is a by product of the impact you create.
What we can learn the Super Successful!
Otherwise you become famous for being famous.
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42. Big growth happens when you find the escape velocity.
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Not when you jump jobs for 30% more money!
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43. Those who can’t find the escape velocity, land their plane.
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Sometimes crash.
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44. Be in the business of helping people who make money
What we can learn the Super Successful!
If your work isn’t helping people make a lot of
money - you aren’t going to make either.
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45. Work to create Impact.
What we can learn the Super Successful!
Ask impact related questions at work.
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46. Find your escape velocity in Testing
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47. Have a nice lunch!
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