A mind-shift from just 'Quality Assurance' to 'Quality Analysis'! Even if a feature has 0 bugs, is it worth pushing to production if no one would use it?

1. bugs redefined
Sneha Kadam
@ichsneha
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2. Sunday 17 November 13

3. A software bug is an error, flaw, mistake,
failure or fault in a computer
program...that produces an incorrect
or unexpected result or causes it to
behave in unintended ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
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4. what about..
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5. features that no-one use..
Are they not
“incorrect”?
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6. features that
degrade user-experience..
Are they not
“unexpected”?
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7. features that are now
obsolete..
Are they not
“unintended”?
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8. so, why are these not
bugs?
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9. they directly affect the
business
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10. what if someone replaced
your “buy” button with
spacer.gif ?
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11. Users are the heart of
our product
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12. Users define the business
not the other way around
businesses that pivoted
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13. User-base defines the
success of the product
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14. Users now have a choice
to go to your competition!
Orkut -> Facebook
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15. but these problems have
existed for long,
why should we be talking about it
today?
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16. we now have evolved tools
to find & capture these
bugs..
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17. along with evolved
techniques that give
validated learning
Lean startup, CD
Dropbox - started with 1 geeky vid
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18. so how do I get
validated learning?
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19. using metrics!
#orders #users
Google analytics, Omniture..
Crazy Egg, Optimizely ...
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20. metrics
indicate user trends..
revenue
conversion rate
stickiness of the site
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21. what if someone replaced your
“buy” button with spacer.gif ?
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22. metrics also acts as an
immune system
bugs caught by metrics
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23. real-user = QA
& find bugs!
FB timeline pushed only to a few users
(canary releasing)
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24. A/B testing
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25. A/B testing
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26. think beyond..
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27. thank you
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