Adopting Continuous Quality Assurance to mitigate Business Risk

Conference Plenary at STeP-IN SUMMIT 2012 (February 2012)
Mahesh Mani, – India Head, Technical Services, Micro Focus

In the face of rapid technology changes, vastly more complex systems, globalization, mobile devices, cloud computing, and new regulatory burdens, changes in the way we develop and test software are even more critical. New approaches like Agile are rapidly gaining popularity and delivering business value. Thought leaders are encouraging organizations to drive quality from the start of the software development lifecycle to streamline and reduce costs. New innovations are solving the age-old problem with requirements. We will explore emerging trends and new approaches that are challenging the way we think about software development and quality assurance and present us with ways to achieve “doing more with less”.

Risk Identification — First Step for Managing Risks in Testing Projects

“Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle” states that if one parameter is measured accurately then the other parameter goes less accurate. Uncertainty in IT field directly relates to the Risks that we could face in a project. But unlike Physics, the more risks we find out in a project and the ways to mitigate them the project parameters (performance, quality etc.) become more predictable.