Offense and Defense Are Both in the QA Playbook. How is Your Offense? STPCon Dallas - September 2016. Join us!!

If the SDLC were like the NFL, what plays are you teaching your team? Do you have a ‘defensive’ powerhouse? A testing team that is excellent at detecting defects. How about your offense?

This session will equip leaders in software quality with actionable tools and techniques to build your “offense” -  To not just be excellent at finding defects, but preventing them too. Topics will include:

• Root cause analysis, decision-flows, and accountability
  ? Requirements quality
  ? Quality in Dev and what you can do to improve it
  ? Cost of quality
  ? How a defect today may save you tomorrow
  ? How and when QA says “No”

Session Takeaways:

• Preventing defects via Root Cause Analysis and cross-functional accountability.
• Tools required for requirements quality and cascading benefits to the SDLC.
• The value proposition of unit/component testing and how to get your application development peers on-board with quality practices in the dev workflows.
• How and when to say “No” when quality is getting pushed to the backseat; behind schedule, scope and costs.
• Learn how to “sell” the cost of quality, and more importantly, the costs/consequences of low quality.
• Use your byproducts to increase the effectiveness of your test coverage and improve code quality.

About Mark:

Mark Bentsen has been leading cross-enterprise collaboration in the DFW area among Software Quality practitioners for the past seven years. Gathering corporately on a quarterly basis and on field trips to one another’s work places, the QA Trailblazers are pushing each other to expand the capabilities of the modern software testing organization. He is the QA Manager of ARGO data, a software development company providing mission-critical and analytical solutions for financial services and healthcare. Mark is a certified CTAL-Full, CSTE, PMP, and ASQ CMQ/OE.