Shift Left: How to Improve Quality by Testing Earlier

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Agile development has radically transformed the software world over the past two decades. By breaking down projects into short sprints, companies have been able to incorporate customer feedback faster and fine-tune software to meet or exceed expectations. Unfortunately, the focus on speed often led to a breakdown in quality. 

The shift-left movement developed as a way to balance speed with quality. Put simply, the shift-left movement aims to push testing toward the early stages of software development. By doing so, development teams can minimize defects, improve quality, reduce costs, and increase velocity, helping projects get released on time, and on budget. However, shift-left isn’t just about timing. It is a holistic transition which requires changing you team’s mindset and responsibilities. 

In this eBook, we'll take a closer look at the origins of the shift-left movement, and how to implement it in your organization to improve quality while delivering on-time and on-budget. 

You'll learn:

• What Is the Shift Left Movement?
• The Pros and Cons of Shift Left
• How Shift-Left Works in Practice
• Best Practices to Maximize Success
• How Cloud Testing Environments Help