Risk or Fear: What Drives Your Testing?- Jenna Charlton

6th November 2019
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Jenna Charlton

Test Lead at AmpliFund

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Talk Description

Risk or Fear: What drives your testing? Many say they do risk-based testing, but walking the walk is showing to be more challenging than organizations realized. Teams are finding they end up testing “everything” which is counterproductive to a risk-based approach. The testing community must apply a truth telling question: What motivates your test coverage decisions? Fear or Risk?

Many teams are realizing after implementing a risk-based strategy, they continue to test from a place of fear as opposed to calculated risk. Others never reassess or renegotiate risk as their application matures.

As the application under test matures, so must your strategy

Takeaways:

  • Discernment: Test decisions, what is your real motivator?
  • Embracing the concept, “What is good enough quality?”
  • Reassessing risk by integrating new data
  • How to overcome bias created by fear and previous failures

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

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Jenna Charlton
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Test Lead at AmpliFund
Testing leader, international keynote speaker, grad student researching the application of professional identity formation theory to QA
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