1. Why every Tester should
also aspire to be a Developer on his project!
Sandeep Mankar
Sr. Consultant, ThoughtWorks

2. Software Development Life Cycle
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Changing paradigms of software
development lifecycle
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TDD
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BDD
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ATDD
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Agile
CD
And importance of multi-skilled team
members
www.impruvism.com

3. Software Testing
Software Testing is a challenging intellectual process
No Less than Coding
No Less than Analysis
For Testers:
Understanding Business perspective - helps
Understanding the Code - also helps
www.freelyassociating.org

4. Cost of a bug fix
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Cost of a bug fix increases
exponentially from design to
deployment
Cheapest place to catch bugs
is “In Development” (coding /
design)
http://watirmelon.com/2013/05/17
fixing-bugs-in-production-is-it-that-expensive-any-more/

5. Test Coverage
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Test Pyramid
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Developers write Tests
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QA should own Test
Coverage
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Find Untested Code
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestCoverage.html
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html

6. Role of a QA
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Find Bugs ?
Ensure code being developed
would work in production ?
Ensure quality is a prerogative ?
But Quality should be everyones
prerogative!!
Role of QA is to help build
'Quality' Software!
www.emedco.com

7. Role of a QA
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Understanding the Code helps- do more of it!
It is important to catch defects early in the dev
cycle – pair with the developers!
QA's should own Test Coverage – Write Code!
Help dev to drill down to root cause – Review
code!
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Pair with developers / Write code / Review code
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Role of QA is to help build 'Quality' software!

8. Agile Team Member
http://blog.3back.com