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We are back and this time talking about Growing a Culture of Quality and the shift left approach, both super hot topics at the moment!

I’m sure that many of you have worked in organisations where Testing and Quality have not been valued as highly as they should have been ,so we have 2 fab speakers talking about how to move teams forward in starting to understand that testing is more than an activity left to the end of a project.

So, grab your own pizza and a drink and join us for an evening of informative talks and another Amazon voucher giveaway courtesy of SR2 – Socially Responsible Recruitment.

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Talk 1 : Shifting Left by Alistair Goodall

How do you move your testing left and start testing earlier in the development lifecycle? Plus what’s good about it?

When I started on my first mobile project I had no idea about shifting left and learnt where and how I could get access to the software earlier and the tooling I used.

What about the rest of the team, how are they contributing to moving testing left?

What other tools are available to me to help test a feature as early as possible?

This talk will cover my journey across three projects I have been involved with as I have looked to test as early as possible and look at how the team as a whole plays a part in testing earlier. We will also look at what tools and practices are available to enable shifting testing left.

Al Goodall is a Lead Software Quality Analyst at WorkForce Software.
He can be found on Twitter at @testninja77. In his spare time Al likes to go running and has taken part in the Severn Bridge 10k time trial in 2020 and has signed up to do it again this year.

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Talk 2: Growing a Culture of Quality by Simon Prior

Long ago was a time where testing was purely seen as an activity by a siloed team who executed 1000’s of tests towards the end of a project. In the modern world, this is still a very real situation in some areas, but on the whole, testing as a collaborative, continuous activity is much more the norm

But getting to that stage is not easy, for some reason, there has historically been a stigma attached to testing as a lesser activity that slows the release of a project down and changing this mindset is a huge obstacle to get over. In places where testing is perceived in a negative light, it is possible to move forward, but it will take hard work and use of the power of persuasion, while coaching and building collaborative best practices which a whole range of tech teams can buy into.

In this talk, I will walk through ways to get Testing at the table for discussions and build a culture of Quality where the business accepts the value that testing brings and helps fight our corner when needed. This ultimately comes down to communication in the right ways and showing the value that Testing can bring to a situation

Simon is heading up the Digital QA team at EasyJet. In his career he has worked in various roles across IT from developer, Scrum Master, Build Engineer before finally finding his passion in Testing. He has a keen interest in finding ways to improve the testing process and ensuring products are released with the highest possible quality.

Simon is a well known speaker & meetup organiser in the Software Testing world, a Podcast co-host (check out TestingPeers.com) and also a keen advocate for companies to consider Neurodiversity as part of their inclusion programmes. He blogs at https://simon-prior.uk

The meetup will be hosted on Crowdcast, and a link will be shared closer to the time

The plan for :

19:00 Introduction with Sam
19:05 Alistair Goodall
Followed by Q&A

19:40 Simon Prior
Followed by Q&A

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If you aren't already part of the South West Test slack community, don't forget to join our group for in-between meetup chat 💬

https://join.slack.com/t/southwesttest/shared_invite/zt-6nbv7cea-b7qKUk9DdPwRCtJsNCUETA

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