How do you address an organisations’ “quality problem”? Mark will be talking about his role as Head of Quality at Cambridge Assessment and exploring how he is approaching getting the answers to that very question.
14. Patterns of “How we do Testing”
Pure
Agile
Strict
Waterfall
Independent
Leap-frog
Mini-Waterfall
Integrated
Continuous
15.
16. Testing Services
TEST MANAGEMENT
Test Delivery Management
Test Strategy
Knowledge Management
TEST CAPABILITY
E2E Testing
Independent Testing
Embedded Testers
TEST LABORATORY
Performance Testing
Automation
Data Management
TEST SUPPORT
Tools Support
Metrics Support
Software Testing
Community
17. Why qTest?
• Integration with JIRA, #1 requirement
• QC migration patterns available
• Encourages adoption of Rapid Software Testing methodology
• The journey is long and the organisation needs a tool that can
evolve with us
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18. 2-Tier / 2-Speed
IT Infrastructure
E2E Customer
Journey
Single View of
Customer
Process
Digitisation
Cambridge Assessment is 159 years old, 3 exam bodies, a research organisation and 2500 people
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… an organisation looking to find its way and asking all of the questions you would expect
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Need to move people away from the notion that Quality results from Testing
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Software Engineering is a process (“concept to release”) and we always need to know where we are in the process.
Within any organisation there are multiple contexts that influence and, in some cases, dictate how software is engineered. We need to appreciate the process distinctions.
Agile transformation has seen the adoption of practices over principles, no organisational change to support the transformation to date
Act as an agent of transformation in all that we do
No silver bullets, it takes time