The faster, smarter and reliable lean startup QA
Sandeep MankarThoughtWorks
By:Jesal Mistry
ThoughtWorks
QAs on a lean startup team
to talk about
practices followed
challenges faced
and lessons learnt
in ensuring quality
while eliminating process
and focusing on the product!
agile techniques
on a lean startup team
we had to be disruptive
Agile techniques + Lean approach
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so,
practices that we followed
minimum viable product (MVP)
needs a mindset
change!
release when neededis your regression
complete?
every commit = production ready
Easier said
then done!!!
feature toggles
who, when
& what
automated integration tests
well…most of
the times!
prioritize + progress wall using Mingle
do I have time
for this?
acceptance tests using Cucumber
“to automate, or not to automate?”
automated build deployment using Go pipelines
maintain?!
automated infrastructure provisioning using Puppet
how do we test
these?
local Dev/QA sandbox for testing using Vagrant
*conditions
apply
invariably helped us achieve
Continuous Deployment (CD)
but hold on…
as always, there were challenges for QA!!!
and, as always,we learnt to…
test early in the cycle
faster feedback to developers and BAs
b’coz faster feedback is crucial
specially for a lean
startup
calling out complex scenarios in story / feature kick offs
so that YOU don’t have to test everything!
calling out risks upfronttaking
make mistakes
think how will it work in Production?
test closer to production
and, when in doubt…ask the business!
prioritize your tests
automate your user journeysvalidated
and use it as a safety net
minimize time taken to test
be flexible about what defects must be fixed
if it is not required tomorrow, let’s not test it right now
don’t forget to test yourinfrastructure!
identifying and maintaining environments
test your application configurations
and most importantly
test your deployment pipelines!
and there is more…
once your app gets some traction
test with production data
analytics
special environments~ performance ~
re-focus your tests
and reduce redundant testing
b’cos QAs should help make
faster
smarter
reliable
product releases!
so, where does that bring us?
xNeed of the
Hour
build reliable software
faster time to market
smarter QA
Thank You!~ & ~
Questions?
by
Jesal MistryThoughtWorks
[email protected]@jesalnmistry
Sandeep MankarThoughtWorks
[email protected]@smankar8
