| | August 20208hrough the implementation of Dev OPS and Agile, engineering teams and prod-uct management teams collaborate and communicate intensely, multiple times a day. Developers are merged into a test-ing cycle or testers are merged into the development cycle right from the early stages. With these changes in the role of a tester, the scope for Qual-ity Assurance (QA) has broadened tremendously. Be it a software-developer-in-test (SDET) or a QA engineer, as a member of a collaborative team, a modern day's tester now has a cadence similar to that of a software devel-opment engineer. These changes have brought in two major essential parameters which everyone should adopt: Shift-Left Testing: Where testing is part and parcel of continuous integration (CI) Shift-Right Testing: Where the horizon of test-ing is broadened after receiving feedback from the end-users.Shift-Left has been the most preferred word in testing parlance in the past decade and has enabled the evolution of quality assurance into something more than just test-ing. The concept of Shift-Left has been enabled to operate right from the requirements stage and increasing demand for services, such as requirements validation and require-ments assurance, which establishes the strategic role played by quality assurance in the IT industry. Adoption of Agile, DevOps and CI/CD have further aided shift-left principles and it is a common understanding that testing cannot be limited to the end of the SDLC as was done in the past.QA is actually defect prevention and not detectionHowever, quality assurance is still seen as the next step to development, which runs quite contrary to the purpose of QA being more about defect-prevention rather than de-fect detection. Even in an Agile setup, we find that devel-opment and automation, despite their proximity, operate in silos and often imitate a fragmented waterfall operation TTESTING IS NOW MORE ABOUT DEFECT PREVENTION THAN DEFECT DETECTIONBy Kishan Sundar, Vice President, Digital Assurance, Maveric Systems Limited IN MY OPINION
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