Search
Close this search box.
Search
Close this search box.
Search
Close this search box.

Blog

Agile Testing

Accelerate Your Development Speed – Built In Quality

“Inspection does not improve the quality, nor guarantee quality. The inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product. Quality cannot be inspected into a product or service; it must be built into it.” – W. Edwards Deming.
A big number of bugs that are discovered in testing processes are easy to prevent. The fact that such bugs are discovered at the testing stage, which is usually at the end of the process, shows that the developers did not perform primary quality check of their work. This wastes the time of both testers and developers, reduces motivation and efficiency, and slows development. The costs go up significantly as a bug moves through traditional SDLC. For example, IBM estimates that if a bug costs $100 to fix in the Gathering Requirements phase, it would be $1,500 in the QA testing phase and $10,000 once in Production.
While we can’t expect to test everything and go our entire lives deploying a product that’s 100% error-free, we can make strides to safeguard software as best we can. Built-In Quality is a core principle of the Lean-Agile mindset. It helps avoid the cost of delays associated with the recall, rework, and defect fixing. The Built-In Quality philosophy applies Systems Thinking to optimize the system, ensuring a fast flow across the entire value stream, and makes quality everyone’s job. Built-In Quality practices ensure that each solution element, at every increment, meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
One way to drive forward Built-In Quality is to adopt the Zero Bugs approach.
Without Zero Bugs approach, you typically have the overhead and increasing cost of fix, as well as a culture in which people are used to bugs being a standard part of their environment which only makes the backlog of bugs grow (the broken window theory).

Zero Bugs Approach means applying a policy where the team keeps a very low (optimally zero)  threshold of open bugs. Once the threshold is reached, the team “Stops the line” and fixes the bug(s). Developers and Testers are pairing and therefore part of the bugs isn’t even reported in the bugs management tool and is fixed immediately. There is no Severity indication as a bug is a bug. Once you implement the Zero Bugs approach, you will no longer have to manage and prioritize a never ending backlog of bugs.
Progression bugs, which are related to new functionality, are fixed immediately as part of the Story Definition of Done. Regression bugs are negotiated with the Product Owner who decides whether to fix the issue or to obsolete it. If the fix doesn’t risk the iteration, the bug will be fixed immediately. If it might risk the iteration, then the PO prioritizes the bug vs. the team’s backlog,  and the bug will be fixed at the latest as top priority of the next iteration.
The Zero Bugs approach is just one of many ways to install a Built-In Quality culture and to shift left the quality awareness.
AgileSparks offers a 1-day Built In Quality course for tech leads that covers how leading software companies are changing their approach to quality, in order to achieve speed and continuous delivery. This course pushes the boundaries of the quality mindset and challenges the thinking about quality ownership within the team.

Read More »
Subscribe for Email Updates:

Most New:

Categories:

Tags:

Test Driven Development
Agile Release Planning
An Appreciative Retrospective
Agile Games
Agile India
Rapid RTC
Agile Release Management
AI
Scrum Primer
Kanban 101
Scrum Master Role
IT Operations
ATDD
Lean Agile Management
Self-organization
LeSS
Introduction to ATDD
Lean Agile Organization
Agile Israel Events
Continuous Delivery
Development Value Streams
Manage Budget Creation
System Integration Environments
WIP
Large Scale Scrum
EOS®
The Agile Coach
Story Slicing
predictability
Scrum
What Is Kanban
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Agile Israel
Implementation of Lean and Agile
Nexus and SAFe
Agility
Agile Basics
SA
Lean Software Development
System Archetypes
Product Ownership
Agile Risk Management
Advanced Roadmaps
LAB
Certified SAFe
Managing Risk on Agile Projects
Lean and Agile Principles and Practices
lean agile change management
Lean and Agile Techniques
RTE
Kanban
A Kanban System for Software Engineering
Risk-aware Product Development
System Team
Agile Product Ownership
Agile Marketing
Lean Agile
Kaizen Workshop
Lean Startup
Covid19
Agile Contracts Best Practices
Applying Agile Methodology
Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Continuous Deployment
Lean Budgeting
Agile Program
QA
Iterative Incremental Development
speed @ scale
RSA
ATDD vs. BDD
Spotify
Scrum Guide
Agile and DevOps Journey
LPM
Professional Scrum with Kanban
ALM Tools
Accelerate Value Delivery At Scale
Certification
Frameworks
Engineering Practices
Agile Community
Agile in the Enterprise
Kanban Game
Implementing SAFe
AgileSparks
Artificial Intelligence
SAFe
Program Increment
Enterprise DevOps
Lean-Agile Budgeting
Jira admin
Scrum and XP
Scrum.org
Presentation
Agile Development
Lean Agile Basics
Atlassian
Continuous Improvement
Jira
Sprint Retrospectives
Atlaassian
Scrum Values
GanttBan
Value Streams
Risk Management in Kanban
Legacy Code
Nexus vs SAFe
Slides
Agile Mindset
Agile for Embedded Systems
Coaching Agile Teams
Business Agility
Scrum Master
ARTs
RTE Role
Agile Product Development
Games and Exercises
Operational Value Stream
Entrepreneurial Operating System®
Daily Scrum
Scaled Agile Framework
Perfection Game
AI Artificial Intelligence
Tips
ROI
POPM
PI Objectives
Jira Plans
Software Development Estimation
Release Train Engineer
Lean-Agile Software Development
Continuous Planning
Change Management
Professional Scrum Master
ART Success
Sprint Iteration
Process Improvement
NIT
Legacy Enterprise
Pomodoro Technique
Tools
Releases Using Lean
Agile Techniques
Managing Projects
Portfolio for Jira
Agile
Hybrid Work
Risk Management on Agile Projects
Sprint Planning
Agile Testing Practices
Agile Delivery
Quality Assurance
Kanban Kickstart Example
Agile Games and Exercises
speed at scale
Agile Project Management
Webinar
Lean Risk Management
Code
Nexus
Principles of Lean-Agile Leadership
SAFe Release Planning
DevOps
SPC
Achieve Business Agility
Limiting Work in Progress
Agile Project
Software Development
Planning
Kanban Basics
The Kanban Method
BDD
Agile Exercises
Jira Cloud
Lean Agile Leadership
Introduction to Test Driven Development
Effective Agile Retrospectives
Kaizen
Agile Assembly Architecture
Reading List
agileisrael
Elastic Leadership
Product Management
Scrum With Kanban
PI Planning
SAFe DevOps
TDD
Video
Systems Thinking
Amdocs
Built-In Quality
Nexus and Kanban
Continuous Integration
Agile Outsourcing
Nexus Integration Team
AgileSparks
Logo
Enable registration in settings - general

Contact Us

Request for additional information and prices

This website uses Cookies to provide a better experience
Shopping cart