This is a 3 dimensional study to look in what , why and how (much) of Shifting mindset for delivering a high quality product at sustainable interval. As more teams embrace the challenges of continuous delivery, we hear lots of people talking about “shift left” and “shift right” in a testing context. In this session we will talk about what does that mean, exactly, and why does everyone want to do it? (8 mins - Context setting)

This session will also be covering two contrasting case studies from two great organisations - 1) First one from teams in Siemens, where we tried to dismantle a mammoth unit of System Test which had 600000+ test case mostly manual and integrate it more in development by shifting left. We will talk about all the Quality Gates, The current states , Mission, DoDs, Failed reactions, Transparency and Visualization at every stages. Most important the learning associated with this to understand what to do and what not to do when teams are spread geographically. 2) Second One from a product team of Cisco, which have came a long way in agile journey but had to reassess the testing strategy altogether and what made them breakaway from their earlier shift left strategy. (12 mins - Sharing the case studies )

We will discuss , debate and dive in to how ‘Shift Left’ concept brought a huge transformation for the entire ‘Testing’ role. Until then, the sole focus for the Testing was only on ‘Defect Detection’ and now the aim of the ‘Shift Left’ from Testing perspective is a journey of ‘Early Defect Detection to Defect Prevention’. ( 15 mins - Involving the audience, Sharing the technical details , working demonstration )

We will also see how Shift Left is a Big Leap in the software industry in Software Development methodology towards speed to market, improving software quality and reducing ‘Time to Market’. ( 5 mins - current Industry trends about testing strategy)

Q&A, Co-learning, Sharing best practices. - 5 mins