Lean Testing: The Key to Faster Software Delivery

Lean Testing: The Key to Faster Software Delivery

Pramod Surya Pramod Surya

Pramod Surya

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发布日期: 2024年8月1日
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In the fast-paced world of software development, delivering quality products quickly is crucial. Lean Testing is a method designed to make testing more efficient by cutting out unnecessary steps and focusing on what's essential. By adopting Lean Testing, you can improve product quality, speed up delivery, and make better use of their resources.

What is Lean Testing?

Lean Testing comes from Lean Manufacturing principles, which aim to get rid of unnecessary steps, constantly improve processes, and deliver what the customer values most. In software development, it means optimizing testing to focus only on the most valuable and efficient activities.

Key Principles of Lean Testing

  1. Customer Value: Understand what the customer values most in your software and focus your testing efforts on those areas.
  2. Reducing unnecessary steps: Identify and eliminate anything in the testing process that doesn’t add value, like redundant test cases or unnecessary documentation.
  3. Continuous Improvement: Always look for ways to make your testing process better and more efficient.
  4. Just-In-Time Testing: Test only when necessary, and ensure testing is aligned with current development work.
  5. Automation: Use automated testing tools to save time and increase accuracy.

Benefits of Lean Testing

  1. More Efficiency: By eliminating unnecessary steps and focusing on value, Lean Testing makes the testing process more efficient.
  2. Faster Delivery: Streamlined testing processes lead to quicker feedback and faster issue resolution, speeding up the overall delivery.
  3. Higher Quality: Continuous improvement and automation lead to more thorough and consistent testing, improving product quality.
  4. Better Use of Resources: Lean Testing ensures resources are used effectively, reducing unnecessary time and effort.

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How to Implement Lean Testing

  1. Assess and Plan: Start by evaluating your current testing processes. Identify areas of unnecessary steps and opportunities for improvement.
  2. Get Stakeholder Support: Make sure everyone involved understands the benefits of Lean Testing and supports its implementation.
  3. Train Your Team: Provide training on Lean principles and practices. Equip your team with the knowledge and tools they need to implement Lean Testing.
  4. Develop an Automation Strategy: Plan where automation will have the most impact and prioritize these areas.
  5. Set Up Continuous Feedback: Create a system for ongoing feedback and improvement, Like regular Retros. ?Regularly review testing outcomes and processes to find and act on improvement opportunities.

Summary

Lean Testing helps software development teams deliver high-quality products faster by focusing on what's essential, cutting out unnecessary steps, and continuously improving. By adopting Lean Testing, you can stay competitive and meet customer expectations more effectively.

Let’s discuss Lean Testing and share experiences! How has Lean Testing helped your organization?

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Jayateerth Katti

Testing | Mentor | 20 Years of testing service | Test Manager | AI Enthusiast

7 个月

Good thoughts Pramod Surya . Testing is always contextual. Specially, test strategy greatly differs in service based and product companies. Everyone will have customer centric approach. At least they claim like that. Automation can be a key strategy. But not always If the product is stable and in the market for years, running the same set of automated scripts may not be a prudent strategy. In my view, exploratory testing is the best strategy.

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Mahesh Mistry

7 个月

Ok - now lets get real. As the Test Manager/Lead, YOU are responsible for managing the Functional and Reputational Risk of the Application Under Test (AUT). You manage that Risk by Testing to ensure no errors occur. All the points highlighted indicate a bloated delivery organisation that is not focused on doing the above. The rules are simple: - 80/20 Rule: 20% of the AUT performs 80% of the delivery. Make sure you are testing/regression testing that 20% at every release as a priority. Automate where possible - Always test the hardest bits first. By definition, ask the dev team to deliver this first in the plan. No point in having a flash GUI if the backend folds with an out of bounds error. - Always test your deployment and roll back process Anything else after this is window dressing. Make the most of the time you have.

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Pramod Surya

Test Architect | Dell | SDET | BDD Coach | Career Coach | Driving Test Innovation | Enabling professionals to grow | #GrowTester | Let's Connect

7 个月

What is your favorite principle of Lean Testing? Mine is customer value, which has led to incredibly quick deliveries for business features. Let’s discuss! ??

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