Software Quality Assurance has come a long way since the early waterfall days with brutal crunch modes and countless all nighters to hammer quality in before the deadline. Now with the need for greater agility and feedback you can no longer wait for slow and expensive test results.
Several years ago the “shift-left” movement eliminated much of the dedicated QA engineer and SDET discipline and forced developers to be more responsible for the quality of what they delivered at the source. In leveraging Unit Testing & TDD, feature switches, pair or mob programming and other techniques teams are able to deliver quickly and accurately what the customer actually called for. In doing so much less time passes between concept to delivery making it possible for customers to appreciate the benefits of shiny new features without the normal delay of a monolithic all or nothing waterfall release cycle.
Beyond that though customer feedback is a critical part of a rapid delivery cycle. Open channels for customer feedback and telemetry can drive the best customer focused experiences and outcomes over anything a “visionary” PM can dream up in the ivory tower.
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