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Dr. Prakash Mutalik

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Founder and CEO of Eka TechServ Over 39 years in IT industry

Worked AT & T, Wipro & HP

Consulted in SW Quality Co-founded RelQ

Was Test Director in EDS/HP

Founded a Test / KM technology company

Advisor to several funds

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Testing established is one of the lines ofbusinesses in IT There is no IT player who is not in testing

Customers accept that their key applications need

to be tested Engineers are willing to consider testing as a career

Outsourcing of Testing is established

Global testing service market : 20-22B; Indian

share : 10b. Growing rapidly, 20 % margin.

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ConvinceCustomer

that Testing

needs to be

done

Provide

Test

resources

Manage

Test

Projects

Build

TCoEs

Build/Adopt

new

Tech/

Models

Focus onTest Auto.

Perform.

Testing

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Customer is too demanding Software is getting more complex and is

often mission critical We dont have resources/skills/models to

meet the demands Investment , courage and innovativeness is

required to change the paradigm

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Testing is an after thought; not willing togive enough time or importance

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Market /Economic

Compulsions

Customer

Expectations

IT

Changes

ImpactOn

Testing

Impact on

Testing

Business

What it

Means to

you

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IT vendor has to reduce the cost Vendor delivers services / products of highest

Quality

Vendor adds value to his business

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Reduce cost of development Improve productivity Reduce manpower cost Reduce testing cost; push it to developers

Improve the Quality

Build Q into software. Focus on process, QA tech Automate Re-use tested modules

Understand Customers business Train existing staff Hire from customers Industry

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Slashed Testing budget Need to reduce cost Create newer cost effective models for testing Need to retrain testers and reposition testing

Look for market repositioning

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Availability of cloud based test tools Cloud based virtual test environment

Cloud based test service

Prime factor is to drive the cost factor down

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Testing area What cloud can offerSales and customer acquisition Sales portals / applications may

helpDistributed testing (multilocation testing)

Possible

Test Life Cycle Frameworks with built in TLC areappearing

Test teams Crowd sourcing

Test effort estimation/ planning Tools and frameworks

Test cases and test scripts Needs to be manually done

Test Environment (platforms,network, storage, )

IaaS, PaaS can provide

Defect reporting, Functional/testautomation, Performance testingand other tools

Tools available , TaaS

Payment Pay as you use

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Growth of cloud computing is outstrippingmany predictions. The growth is based onsome compelling value proposition : speedto market, agility to bring forward or retire

service, chance to move capex to opex. Fortesting, cloud offers range of opportunity totake up certain kind of projects, opportunityto reduce cost

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Costof

Change

Time

Iteration 1

Requirements

Analysis & Design

Code

Test

Iteration 2

Requirements

Analysis & Design

Code

Test

Iteration 3

Requirements

Analysis & Design

Code

Test

Iteration 4

Requirements

Analysis & Design

Code

Test

Deploy

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Agile Scrum project management

Project InitiationGet an understand-ing of the project

Release planningPlan the sprints,Test Plan

Iterations / sprints Release Tests

Performance/Load

Installation/compatibilityUATCompleteregressionReleasedocumentation

Story Tests

AutomationTests

ManualTests

ReleaseReady checks

Go toRelease

Tests

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Testers are first class citizens on agile teamsand part of the whole team supportingcustomers, business stakeholders, developersand other team members

Testers support quality infusion through entireteam and product cycle

Test tasks and stories are planned andexecuted like development tasks and stories

Automate where possible and use session-based testing for exploratory testing

Communicate through information radiators

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Be cathedral builders not stonecutters

Collective ownership

Testers are part

of the team

Drop the Quality Police mindset

Focus on team goals & customervalue

Agile testing

mindset

Automate tests wherever practical

Need rapid feedbackAutomate tests

Balance against developer focus on

technical implementation

Use agile test matrix as guide

Look at the big

picture

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Software is becoming increasingly complexand mission critical

Many projects fail or inordinately late

Poorly tested software costs customer. In TDD, test is written first, and code is

developed to meet the tests For more details on TDD, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_developmenthttp://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html

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Industry standards, legal regulations are oftenmade mandatory. Recent regulations show that notmeeting these stds could cost companies theirbusiness.

Companies are expecting that the test teams checkfor this compliance

Banking , health care and data security arebecoming very strict.

We expect that this compliance testing will onlybecome more and more important in the comingyears

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Build a valuable and efficient TestOrganization

Explore newer test delivery models,platforms such as Cloud

Use initiatives such as KnowledgeManagement to improve test productivity andtest organiztion

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Improve the image of Test Organization in thecompany. Convince the management that Testingis a specialized skill and is necessary.

Assess your Testing needs, current state of Testing

and Establish Test processes. Have a focus onEstimation, re-use of Test artifacts, automationtools

Train your test professionals in processes, tools,

domains. Take initiatives to improve test productivity.

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Testing is not just supplying bodies. Thereare other models : projects, building TCoE,value added services such as Automation,performance testing.

Explore cloud based services , cloudsourcing, and other models

Expand your business and expertise inseveral domains / verticals.

Examine building skills to add value tocustomer business.

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