Testing roles are shifting

New ways of delivering software and solutions challenge existing perceptions of what roles and activities testers and test managers have. Some are getting more into development others into people skills. Sometimes forcefully, other times as part of self-organizing teams.

This post is a link collection for the talk: Testing roles are shifting, but where to? for the Ministry of Testing Meetup Copenhagen chapter, march 2017.

Introduction

• Testing roles are shifting, but where to?
• “How to Test in IT operations“
• What is the next big thing to happen in the software testing space?
• Test automation is not testing
• Situation Normal, Everything Must Change – Simon Wardley Keynote

Shift Left:

• Trending: Shift-Left
  • What the Shift Left in Testing Means
  • “Shift left” has become “drop right”
  • Shift Left QA. How to do it. Why it matters
  • How we Test Software at Google
• So we’re going “No QAs”. How do we get the devs to do enough testing?
• The “A” Word Under the Covers of Test Automation
• Stop hiring software checkers!

Shift Right:

• Shift-Right, you wild one!
  • Continuous Testing in DevOps
  • Stop Writing Automation
  • 8 Reasons to Shift Testing Right
  • Testing in the Wild
• The Mojo of the Weasel

Shift Coach

• The Shift-Coach Testing Trend
  • leading the testing than leading the testers
  • Testing without Testers (and other dumb ideas that sometimes work)
• Test Manager vs. Test Coach
• “How I Lost My Job As a Test Manager”

Shift Deliver:

• Continuous Testing in DevOps…

• Shift-Deliver, TestOps and Management of Changes

 

Additional links

• Shift-Deliver, TestOps and Management of Changes
• less about software, and more about solutions
• Shift X – Why are testers not happy where they are (put)?

• The Software Tester: Modern vs. Traditional [Infographic]

• Dannemiller version: D x V x F > R

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