The Role of Testers in Improving Process and Reducing Cost of Quality - Part 2

Organizations have become more and more interested in defect prevention as a way of reducing the cost of quality. Historically, the role of the test team in software organizations has been limited to identifying and reporting problems to the development team to fix. Experience suggests that this is a very expensive way to deliver quality products. In our part 1 of this webinar, Mike Ennis has shared a number of methods to help the test team become more of a quality assurance team and help prevent defect from getting into the product. These included risk based testing.

In Part 2 of this webinar, Magdy Hanna will present more methods that test professionals can use to prevent defects early in the process as well as using these methods to improve the development process, the testprocess, and the requirement process. These methods include:

• Closing the gap between development and testing with collaboration.
• Scenario-based Development and Testing.
• Sharing testing responsibility with developers.
• Impact analysis
• Using requirement analysis techniques