Quality Assurance industry keeps changing very fast. Sometimes back it was a standard to use Waterfall, gate keepers of the quality were large QA departments and it took months to deliver software to customers. During the last decade many companies decided to move from Waterfall to Agile, added Mobile apps to their portfolio, some got rid of QA departments and made feature developers test their own code. It worked well for some companies but it failed badly for others. The talk is about the way how we overcame some of the challenges in Mobile software development and quality - testing on right level, risk-based testing, mobile test automation and QE processes.

1. Rocket Science
challenges of mobile quality
Viktor Tymoshchuk - Quality Engineering at Concur

2. challange#1: QE is hard

3. why rocket science?
A pursuit, activity, or endeavour that requires
extraordinary skill or intelligence.
idiom by thefreedictionary.com

4. quality engineering =
A pursuit, activity, or endeavour that requires
extraordinary skill or intelligence.

5. quality mindset / skill set
why QE is so hard?

6. no formalised education
why QE is so hard?

7. hard to hire experts
why QE is so hard?

8. lack of credit and influence
why QE is so hard?

9. Quality Engineering is as hard as Rocket Science

10. challange#2: test the right thing

13. test pyramid model

15. stays at one place
next level is based on previous
focuses on volume
not addressing risk

18. test rocket model
moves fast
all levels are equally important
focuses on value
adresses risk

19. launching a rocket is risky

20. risk-based testing
component probability impact risk
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21. Test Rocket Model - focus on risk and value

22. challange#3: influence product quality

23. web mobile

25. rocket launch
before launch blast off in the space

26. rocket launch
before launch blast off in the space
1. Unit
2. Services/API
3. UI
5. CI/CD pipeline
6. Beta channels
7. Staged release
7. Prod. health-checks
8. Track incidents
9. Customer feedback
1-9 development flow
9-1 feedback importance

28. Influence product quality - measure and
communicate on every stage of your Rocket
Launch

29. Let everyone know how hard QE is
Bring value by testing the right thing with Test Rocket Model
Influence product quality - measure and communicate on every
stage of your Rocket launch
what’s next?

30. Thank you!
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