The BTN, in partnership with Prolifics Testing, brings together some of the leading testing and quality assurance professionals across industry to go further into depth the role of testing within successful digital transformations.
The 2019-20 World Quality Report found that when they asked business leaders to rate factors in terms of the impact made on increasing the company QA and testing budget, ‘Increased amount of developments and releases’ rated the highest. Clearly, the highly iterative nature of these new DevOps and agile methodologies is both a blessing and a curse: on one hand, the software can be changed more easily and more quickly, but on the other, these changes bring increased scope for creating defects, putting more and more pressure on the testing team.
The 3rd expert in this series showcases Stuart Makin (Head of QA & Test at O2 Telefonica UK), in which he is accountable for a team of permanent O2 test professionals and a QA & Test Managed Service partnership of QA & Test Experts.
In part 2, Stuart looks at the evolution of their processes and how O2 has increased the speed of their delivery, whilst ensuring quality is not hampered. Quality at speed and quality at demand needed to be working in tandem. Stuart then looks at how they can develop workstreams to deliver a better experience for their customers and the benefits of automation.
O2’s focus on the use of automation to create faster and more efficient deliveries, helped them to predict a risk-based approach.
Stuart highlights the benefits they are seeing from utilising an Agile methodology versus Waterfall and the benefits of testing things in a completely different style.
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