Agile QA & Test: A Shift in Mindset from Finding to Preventing Bugs
Although most software companies have adopted agile development these days, many still treat quality assurance (QA) as something that gets handled when coding is done and is “ready for test.” Use of this waterfall method to ensure quality costs teams in rework, context switching, slower code release cycles, growing bug queues, and the release of defects into production. Join Oscar Gracia and Todd Albers as they present techniques you can use to help change this ready-for-test mindset. Learn how to focus on testing and quality from the start by using a pre-grooming approach to ensure stories are detailed enough for developers to code from. Discover how conducting developer demos can help developers find bugs themselves. Join Oscar and Todd to get the tools you need to make iterative changes—both individually and within your organization—so you can shift the mindset from finding bugs to preventing bugs.
Oscar Gracia has been in software quality assurance for 15 years working with teams to build a wide array of software, from Real-Time Ad-Exchange to Payment System software. Oscar has worked with small and large teams across a diverse set of companies ranging from start-ups to mature organizations that employed a range of methodologies from waterfall to agile. For the past 5 years Oscar has been working with AppFolio helping to establish and maintain a focus on preventing bugs and driving value for the customer while maintaining the teams agility, as AppFolio matures from a start-up to a growing public company.
Involved in agile development for more than ten years, Todd Albers has worked for both large and small companies—all practicing or adopting Agile. From this exposure to different types of agile development, he has learned to take the ideas that work best and implement them within different types of teams. Excited to share what he has learned with others, Todd strives everyday to see small changes make huge impacts.