The cost of testing with George
george
20 years
Kochi (india not japan)
wanted to be a dev
India space program had a test team
local, microsoft
elearning
multiple products
mysis/financial/health care (pathology), 2003 automation
Sas (manager)
manager to architect to practice lead
what are you learning?
cyber security
devSecOps
git
docker
RPA
Cost centre?
overhead
test orgs to blame?
warterfall to agile; no ownership of quality
inhibitor
value of testing?
contributions to cost
challenges in testing
resources (people, salary)
software licences costs
test environment management
the cost of bug feedback
skills increasing (SDET)
technical challenges
dev based testing can be low
high cost of design/unit test
low cost tools
not open to cloud test env
lots of manual still involved
how to figure out the correct balance of testing
lack of continuous improvement
where are you finding defects?
no focus on preventing defects
where to focus first?
reducing manual?
automating outside of automation code
not UI automation
start with API testing
how to show the value of testing?
metrics
deployment frequencies
it based/ savings
availability
lead time for changes
change failure rate?
time to restore
improvements to productivity
revenue increase
Tools to help communicate costs?
power BI/tableu
Dealing with managers who want to cut costs
unit test creation
3rd party feedback
100% automation is impossible
data provisinoing
have a 3 to 5 year career plan
you don't need to focus on automation
there are ways to add value in other ways
package specialization
non functional?
chaos engineering
communication is important