Test Leadership Congress 2020

We all want to test fast and test smart. As the time available for testing shrinks with
continuous integration and frequent or continuous deployment, it becomes ever more
critical to think strategically, whether you are testing a single story, an entire application
or an integrated suite of applications.
Strategic testing is all about how you make the best use of time and any other resources
available to you: to mitigate risks, find important bugs and provide your stakeholders with
information that really matters to them about the software.
This tutorial teaches simple yet powerful techniques to decide quickly what, how, and
when you and your whole team need to test.
Topics to be covered include:
 Understanding what product quality means to your key stakeholders in practical
terms you can use to direct testing.
 Driving out risks, principles, or organisational rules that could direct test priorities
or severely constrain testing.
 Deciding how to determine testing scope and coverage.
We’ll use simple, flexible media—such as mindmaps and diagrams—for working through
strategies and communicating them clearly.