QA Process Optimization: Agile & Automated Testing

Quality has been a thorny issue for the software development industry. From early programs to modern applications, software has always been prone to bugs- defects that shouldn’t be there yet often make their way into production, diminishing user experience and frustrating developers. Ensuring that the final product works as expected is the core responsibility of QA practices and processes. However, this is easier said than done. The QA function is often misunderstood and forgotten, especially in agile environment where principles like “progress over perfection” and “fail fast to learn fast” made practitioners shift their focus away from thoughtful quality management. 

Managing quality is not about eliminating every bug and issue. It may not even be possible. Instead, it’s about building software development processes that are able to deliver the expected results which the team commits to. Predictability, as a key measure of quality, allows teams to adjust their throughput by consciously deciding on the acceptable quality levels for their final products.  

In this course, we will explore how to design and structure an effective quality process in the modern agile team through collaboration and automation. We will look at tools and techniques that work; and combine them with meaningful measures, which will allow us not only position QA function appropriately within the agile delivery process but also improve and fine-tune it over time 

By the end of the course, you will be equipped with knowledge and tools to design and fine-tune a QA process that works well in an agile software development team. 

If you want to learn more about tailoring QA to agile, join us in this learning journey.