TDD is the discipline of bringing quality controls as early as possible to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Is a controlled way clearly state expectations about a future piece of software before it gets build. TDD is better combined with test automation. Finally it requires a big shift in the way requirements are captured, documented, and finally validated. I can help you at all levels, by training all key stakeholders from the ones in charge of defining requirements (usually Product Owners or Business Analysts); to the ones building and validating the software product (developers and SQAs). Also I can help to put in place all required tooling in order to achieve the higher degree of tests automation possible for your specific context.
Want to know more? Check out how this service is usually delivered, problems it helps you to solve, and benefits gained.
This service helps you solve or alleviate the following situations
- Doing a full system test for your software products is not feasible, it will take many months, so you are not doing it and end users are finding critical bugs directly on production environments.
- Your company or department reputation is suffering because the end users and key stakeholders are aware of the high rate of defects you ship into production.
- Your development team’s morale is low due to being constantly in “repair mode”, reducing the amount of improvements and new feature delivered.
- You have no repeatable tests, every feature is validated differently depending on the individual doing the test. Developers can’t be sure if they are releasing something that will pass critical quality characteristics because of different test scripts, procedures, and expectations.
Benefits to your organization
- Reduced Time-To-Market (TTM).
- Increased team’s morale.
- Less defects introduced in early stages of the SDLC.
- Less defects going to production/live environments.
- Increase confidence about not breaking things with new features or changes.
- Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) because of less time and staff required to validate and support the system.
- More time spent in doing value-adding tasks such as new features, improvements, and innovation; rather than just fixing defects.
How this service is usually delivered
- By training, first, key actors in the SDLC: Business Analysts / Product Owners, Developers (all specializations), and SQA engineers / testers, in order to enable TDD and test automation.
- By helping software development teams select and put in place the best test automation tooling for their context.
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