Evolving from Testing to Continuous Quality Engineering Quality and testing processes adopted…
As Planit’s global Practice Director for Quality Engineering (QE) and Assurance, Tafline is responsible for driving best practices in QE across Planit, including to consultants and clients worldwide. Tafline has over 20 years of experience in the ICT industry and has delivered large and complex programmes of work with teams of over 80 quality engineers and testers. Tafline holds a PhD in software testing and is a regular feature in software engineering, technology and quality engineering conferences. Tafline is an international standards leader, developing quality engineering and testing standards with ISO/IEC and IEEE. She is chair of the software and systems engineering committee at Standards Australia (IT-015), representing Australia’s interests in software and systems engineering standards development with ISO. Tafline is also a part-time Professor of Practice at La Trobe University via a partnership with Planit, teaching software testing and metrics to the next generation of software engineers.
Evolving from Testing to Continuous Quality Engineering Quality and testing processes adopted within the software development lifecycle can have a significant impact on the quality of the delivered product. Both traditional and agile lifecycle models can fall short of delivering high quality products for various reasons, including engaging testers too late, neglecting non-functional requirements, and failing to invest in quality assurance and testing early. The sheer way the lifecycle is structured – placing testing after development – contributes significantly to these issues. In this presentation, Tafline and Leanne explore critical aspects of quality assurance and testing that are commonly overlooked in traditional and agile lifecycles. We introduce QModel as a quality engineering lifecycle model that is deigned to overcome these challenges. QModel emphasises the adoption of a whole-team approach to continuous quality that embeds quality and testing practices into every lifecycle stage (rather than testing being a separate lifecycle stage). The aim is to “get it right first time” by building quality into each product ,and evaluating quality early and often, thereby avoiding technical debt, reducing costly rework and accelerating the delivery of higher quality products to production.