Room
Room E1 - Track 4: Talks
Audience
Tester, Manager
Key-Learnings
- Metrics should be regularly revalidated to see if they still correlate with quality
- If you see an increase in defects, improve development instead of adding more testing
- Efficiency of QA initiatives should also be measured by reduced waste in development
- Quality will improve significantly only when it's everyone's responsibility
Have you ever felt the urge to increase the amount of testing or hire more testers, thinking it would improve product quality? As a tester, have you ever been held “accountable” for quality or pressed for time, leaving you feeling helpless? Or perhaps you’ve been asked to justify quality assurance initiatives with numbers?
Our industry is filled with myths: from “quality can be measured” to “more testing means higher quality” and from “QA slows down work” to “testers are responsible for quality”. In this talk, I will present the myths I once believed, explain the dangers they pose to both teams and products, and demonstrate how they should be debunked and overcome.