Ken Pugh presents Shift Testing Left to Build in Quality

We are very excited that Ken Pugh is visiting Melbourne next week and has agreed to share with us the talk he gave at the Global SAFe Summit earlier this month.

Agenda
6pm Snacks & Networking
6:30pm Ken Pugh presents Shift Testing Left to Build in Quality followed by Q&A

About Ken
Ken Pugh is the Chief Consultant for Ken Pugh, Inc. and a SAFe SPC4. He helps companies evolve into lean-agile organizations through training and coaching. His special interests are in collaborating on requirements, delivering business value, and using lean/SAFe principles to deliver high quality quickly. His latest book is Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development: Better Software Through Collaboration. He is the co-creator of the SAFe Agile Software Engineering course.

Shift Testing Left to Build in Quality
Built-In Quality is a key value in SAFe. Quality includes both building the right thing and building that thing right. Shift testing left to build in quality revolves around Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD). With HDD, you create an idea for a functional change and a hypothesis as to the customer’s use of that functionality. That hypothesis forms a test as to whether you are building the right thing. With BDD, tests are created for the functionality prior to its implementation to ensure you are building the thing right. Tests for internal components are created prior to coding with TDD to check that they are working properly. In this session, Ken Pugh describes how HDD, BDD, and TDD work together and how the different SAFe roles collaborate in these processes.

Learning Objectives:
Describe how Shift Left Testing helps build in quality
Identify the different aspects of Shift Left Testing
Identify how loopbacks and delays are reduced by Shift Left Testing