QAI STC 2014 Plenary Keynote: Innovation & agility in testing a paradigm shift

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Insights.Assurance.Leadership
Innovation & Agility in
Testing: A Paradigm
Shift
Sridhar Throvagunta
Global Head - Test Advisory Services

Helping customers do business better…
Test Advisory Services

White lies!

By 2020…
By 2020, Internet of things creates huge opportunity for
testers!
By 2020, testers have a NO career!

Story time

Two shoe salesmen were sent to Africa to see if
there was a market for their product.
Which Salesman Are You?
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 tester report!

Winds of change…

The Confluence
Technology
T-BoK
Business
Change Drivers: Innovation and Agility

Reinventing Business
Pharma
 Slow & ineffective
innovation
 Long gestation periods
 Increasing cost of R&D
 Need for collaboration
 Humungous data
 Multi-geo compliance
Manufacturing
 Product & Process
innovation
 Shorter product cycles
 SCM & Raw materials
 Customer Supplier
collaboration
 Social
Retail
 Distribution system
simplification
 Direct to customer
 SCM
 Data Mining
 Ratings & Reviews
EnU
 User Ex (Predictive
Analytics)
 Humongous data
 Location & Mobile
aware technologies
GMT
 Integrated User Ex
 Product innovation and
value added services
 Digital future

Business Impact on Testing
Domain rich testing
Poor software quality has become one of the most
expensive topics in human history: > $150 billion per
year in U.S.; > $500 billion per year world wide –
Caper Jones
CFO influence in IT is growing; 42% of IT
organizations report directly to the CFO
CMO is knocking on the CIO, Gartner
Shift towards Fixed Pricing/ Outcome Based enabling
client’s ability to innovate and cut time to market
CxO

Reinventing Technology
Change Drivers: Innovation and Agility

Technology Impact on Business
Total economic value add for the Internet of Things will
be $1.9 trillion dollars in 2020 - Gartner
Mobility market will reach $1 trillion by 2014 - Gartner
CIO’s must answer the question “Why Not Run In The
Cloud?” – Forrester
Big Data will grow around 80% in a period of the next
five years - Gartner

Reinvent Testing
Dev team acted as Testers
Pockets of competencies/Test
governances
Adhoc, uncontrolled, reactive,
and undocumented testing
High production defect seepage
High Cost of Operations
Part of SDLC/PDLC
Testing as end of lifecycle
activity
Outsourcing
Cost, Time & Quality
T&M Engagement Models
Business Assurance
through Shift Left
Methodology
Centralization,
Standardization, and
Optimization
Industrialized Service
Delivery
NextGen Pricing Models
Specialized Services
Testing 1.0 Testing 2.0 Testing 3.0
Industry is trending business assurance & confirmation

Testing Impact on Business
Early defect detection results into phenomenal cost
savings - Gartner
Test Life Cycle Automation results in reduced costs,
faster time to market and higher quality - Wipro Test
Advisory Services
Domain based solutions will be key influencer -
Forrester
Over 80% of organizations who centralized their test
practices experienced an ROI between 31% and 70% -
Forrester

iNNovation

Areas of Improvement
 Enable Business Assurance and Confirmation
 Shift Left
 Complete automation
 BVT
 Business Resilience
 Shift Right – TestOps
 Test residue for product Improvement & SLA/ OLA refinement
 End to End Ownership and TCO reduction
 Commercial models: Pricing for Value
 Business Value Creation

Thank You
Sridhar Throvagunta
@SriSukta

True Lies!

A Tester Reports: Terrible!
 Who is saying that:
 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 so:
 Testing Slows down
 Consumes resources without any visible value
 Developers are getting better
 Tools are getting better

A Tester Reports: Fantastic!
 Who is saying that:
 It’s time for you to raise your game, Scott Barber
 Redistribution of testing, Paul Gerrard
 Represents user and builds confidence, Sridhar
Throvagunta
 Why so:
 Testing creates business value
 Checking to testing
 Testing is going beyond go/ no go decision to advisory and
risk management

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