DZone
Thanks for visiting DZone today,
Edit Profile
  • Manage Email Subscriptions
  • How to Post to DZone
  • Article Submission Guidelines
Sign Out View Profile
  • Post an Article
  • Manage My Drafts
Over 2 million developers have joined DZone.
Log In / Join
Refcards Trend Reports
Events Video Library
Refcards
Trend Reports

Events

View Events Video Library

Zones

Culture and Methodologies Agile Career Development Methodologies Team Management
Data Engineering AI/ML Big Data Data Databases IoT
Software Design and Architecture Cloud Architecture Containers Integration Microservices Performance Security
Coding Frameworks Java JavaScript Languages Tools
Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance Deployment DevOps and CI/CD Maintenance Monitoring and Observability Testing, Tools, and Frameworks
Culture and Methodologies
Agile Career Development Methodologies Team Management
Data Engineering
AI/ML Big Data Data Databases IoT
Software Design and Architecture
Cloud Architecture Containers Integration Microservices Performance Security
Coding
Frameworks Java JavaScript Languages Tools
Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance
Deployment DevOps and CI/CD Maintenance Monitoring and Observability Testing, Tools, and Frameworks

Related

  • Utilize These Detection-as-Code Best Practices
  • Top 11 Selenium Testing Misconceptions You Should Know
  • Shifting Left: A Culture Change Plan for Early Bug Detection
  • Modern QA Practices to Enhance Software Reliability

Trending

  • Provider-Agnostic OIDC Auth Flow for Your Apps (PyJWT + FastAPI)
  • gRPC and Its Role in Microservices Communication
  • Apache Cassandra With Java: Introduction to UDT
  • Machine Learning for CI/CD: Predicting Deployment Durations and Improving DevOps Agility
  1. DZone
  2. Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance
  3. Deployment
  4. Continuous Testing: 6 Ways to Speed Up and Streamline Your QA Strategy

Continuous Testing: 6 Ways to Speed Up and Streamline Your QA Strategy

The new year is the perfect time to implement these improvements to your QA process by bringing in continuous testing and the benefits it offers.

By 
Ashley Dotterweich user avatar
Ashley Dotterweich
·
Updated Feb. 09, 18 · Tutorial
Likes (6)
Comment
Save
Tweet
Share
8.4K Views

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.

Join For Free

A new year likely means new goals, whether you want to ship features faster, boost quality or scale your team. Whatever your goals are, make sure to set your team up for success with the right QA strategy. Check out the complete run of our Continuous Testing webinar series on Brighttalk now for tips from testing experts on creating a more impactful QA strategy this year.

1. Take a Modular Approach to Testing

Even relatively small test suites are likely to recycle and reuse the same activity flows in multiple test cases. By using a system that allows you to create modular test cases, you'll be able to keep your suite up-to-date and accurate with drastically less management time. Watch this webinar on how modular testing helps improve the efficiency of your test suite over time to learn more.

2. Implement Version Control for QA

Version control is standard practice for development, but hasn't yet been widely adopted for QA. By using version control for software testing, your team will have better control over test cases and code quality. Get ahead of the curve and learn how to apply version control to your QA process.

3. Start Functional Testing Earlier

Don't hold back on functional testing. Teams that start writing tests as soon as a new feature is spec'd and begin running functional tests as early as possible benefit from shorter development cycles and fewer bugs in production. Learn how "shifting left" can be applied to functional testing to speed up development for your team.

4. Integrate Your Testing Workflow With Dev Tools

Fast-moving teams know that they must de-silo QA to keep up with the demands of fast-paced development cadences. Integrating QA with other critical development tools and processes helps streamline the testing and reduces the risk of anything slipping through the cracks. Check out this webinar to learn which development tools you should prioritize integrating into your QA process, and what a successfully integrated workflow looks like.

5. Rightsize Your QA Strategy to Your Quality Goals

It's common for teams to approach QA with a "test all the things" mentality, aiming for as many test cases as possible. Bloated test suites are hard to manage and can yield unreliable results, so they don't directly translate to better quality software. In this webinar, we discuss best practices for designing a QA strategy that fits your goals.

6. Find the Right Metrics to Measure Quality

Measuring the efficacy of your QA process helps your team celebrate successes and stay on track long-term. But many teams focus on the wrong measurements and, as a result, struggle to map their testing strategy to high-level business goals. In this webinar, learn the essential quality metrics that will ensure that your team can measure and communicate their progress effectively.

Question answering Pipeline (software) Version control teams Testing

Published at DZone with permission of , DZone MVB. See the original article here.

Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.

Related

  • Utilize These Detection-as-Code Best Practices
  • Top 11 Selenium Testing Misconceptions You Should Know
  • Shifting Left: A Culture Change Plan for Early Bug Detection
  • Modern QA Practices to Enhance Software Reliability

Partner Resources

×

Comments

The likes didn't load as expected. Please refresh the page and try again.

ABOUT US

  • About DZone
  • Support and feedback
  • Community research
  • Sitemap

ADVERTISE

  • Advertise with DZone

CONTRIBUTE ON DZONE

  • Article Submission Guidelines
  • Become a Contributor
  • Core Program
  • Visit the Writers' Zone

LEGAL

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy

CONTACT US

  • 3343 Perimeter Hill Drive
  • Suite 100
  • Nashville, TN 37211
  • [email protected]

Let's be friends: