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Leveraging Global Talent for Effective Test Agility. 2012 Agile Conference. Outline. Introduction The Development and Testing Process Testing Quadrants Conclusion. Introduction. We had a corporate mandate to utilize offshore outsourcing and decided we were going to make the best of it .
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Leveraging Global Talent for Effective Test Agility 2012 Agile Conference
Outline • Introduction • The Development and Testing Process • Testing Quadrants • Conclusion
Introduction • We had a corporate mandate to utilize offshore outsourcing and decided we were going to make the best of it. • we found was that by starting with an overall testing strategy and an understanding of the strengths and constraints,
The Development and Testing Process • A. Existing Test Approach • B. Challenges Testing High Performance Computing • C. Additional Challenges of Testing Simulation Software
OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING • India • Romania • Vietnam
The problem • The more complex customer regressions were still catching a lot of problems. • Besides taking a long time to run to provide results, the problems discovered with the more complex customer data were also difficult to debug.
Conclusions • A. Test Automation is Necessary to Maintain Velocity • B. A Testing Strategy Helps to Maximize Efficiency • C. Outsourcing Can Work When Used Judiciously. • D. Treat Outsourcer as a Partner • E. Cost Effective Global Talent • F. Distributed Teams Can be Effective • G. Test Automation Does not Replace Exploratory Testing