Managing Technological Diversity: Avoid Boiling the Ocean
Drop everything! We need to regression test the newest browser version. Apple just released a new device and iOS. We need to test our site on IE11 with Windows 8.1. Sound familiar? The number of technologies our software products must be compatible with has grown exponentially, and the market is adopting new technologies with ever-increasing speed. So, how do we manage the diversity of technology with which our software products must be compatible? Katy Douglass shares Nationwide Financial’s story of transforming their reactive processes into proactive processes that anticipate change. Katy shares a strategy to manage and predict technological diversity that you can use in your organization. She shows how to gain better insight into trends, determine test coverage through application usage data, implement a process of anticipating new technology through risk and issue management, and create frameworks for browser, OS, and device test scope decision making.