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1. #ATAGTR2017
16th 17th March
Focusing Test Managers time on what matters
– managing testing projects; NOT preparing reports
Ajay Emmanuel – VIEW26 GmbH

2. Agile Testing Alliance Global Testing Retreat 2017
Agenda
1.
Enterprise and industry
issues
2.
The need to re-invent
4.
Case Study
5.
What the future holds
3.
Key Challenges – QA
Reporting

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Enterprise and industry issues
Digital Transformation continues to drive IT strategy and make
itself felt in the QA and Testing function
Uncertainty about about
budget needs as digital
continues to disrupt.
Internet of Things testing
and security pushing up QA
& Testing costs over the
near horizon.
Ongoing technology
advancements increasing
risk of failures.
Organizations increasingly
struggling to find the right
approach to quality
validation and testing in
Agile & DevOps
environment.
Distributed QA teams with
each one having its own
test process and tools.
Shorter release cycles
putting pressure on QA
function to maintain
acceptable release quality
at the same time increase
test productivity and test
velocity.
Push for Agile & DevOps
Continued adoption of Agile
methodologies for digital
transformation programs
Faster time to market
Pressure on enterprise to bring
new products and services
ahead of competition
Emergence of Internet
of Things
The Internet of Things is
another element of Digital
Transformation , sitting
alongside cloud, mobile and
cyber security
Implications
Forces

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The need to re-invent
Non value adding activities can take upto 25% of QA professionals
Productive time.
Over half of Software QA professionals spend more
than a quarter of their time creating reporting
documents.
Of these, nearly 50% claim they spend over half their
working day verbally reporting or creating reporting
collateral.
53% 46%need for better
communication tools
require better
reporting tools
Survey findings
25%
Source: Software Testing Trends by PICCADILLY Labs . Survey results across 350 test professionals

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Key Challenges – QA Reporting
To turn data to insights, the QA & Test function must address several
challenges
Key Challenges
 Test Managers managing multiple test
projects across multiple locations
 Reporting across ALM tools.
 Traditional and Agile work alongside each
other.
 Inconsistency in data model across tools.
 Traditional medium - Email for reporting
 Difficult for senior management to access
real-time data.
Data
Consolidation
Data
Refinement
Data Reporting

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Transformation CaseStudy
As part of digital transformational initiatives – the Telco transformed
its test reporting process , ensuring team maximized time on value
adding tasks
Leading UK based
telecom company
with test teams
spread across 14
markets
 Instantly eliminated 100% of non-value adding
time from its testing process
 Standardization in reports provided from
teams across markets
 Real time reporting on key KPIs across
markets.
Challenges: Transformation:
Results:
 Test Managers spending
approximately 20 mins to prepare
test report per project.
 Teams using different version of ALM
tools.
 Data quality issues due to distributed
test team across geographies
 Thomas first developed a clear vision of
KPIs & metrics to be reported across
markets.
 With top management support, developed an
integration data model to be used to
reconcile current tools and serve as a guide
for future tool integrations
 Next was to deploy the analytics platform
across markets which served as the key
enabler for real-time reporting

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What the future holds
Getting from Improved Automation to Machine Based Intelligence
 Leveraging predictive analytics to
bring speed efficiencies in all areas
of quality decisions
 Machine learning approach would
enable QA activities to be
automatically defined and adjusted
to reflect realities of past projects
and releases
“from the inside out”
Improved Automation Machine based
intelligence
“prescriptive analytics”
 Subjective manual decision making
 Risk based testing test strategy
gaining popularity with rise in digital
transformation programs.
 Improvements in automation levels

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Thank you
Reach me at
ajay@view26.com
9539998565