 | | Word of the Day |  | | Daily updates on the latest technology terms | June 10, 2020 | | | shift left | | Shift left is a strategy for improving software development projects by moving quality assurance (QA) tests to the earliest possible point in the development cycle. The term is often associated with the DevOps movement and automated testing. Shift left got its name because the strategy moves unit tests and other QA tasks visually towards the left-hand side of a project management timeline. This approach supports the popular developer's adage: "Test early and test often." Detecting problems earlier in the software development lifecycle can improve security because it makes debugging easier. Another advantage to shifting testing to the left is that it requires the development team to be involved in planning Agile sprints. In turn, the test team's involvement in the planning process helps ensure their work will be completed on schedule. Continue reading about shift left testing... | |  | "To shift left in DevOps, development teams take responsibility to ensure that code is of sufficient quality to not affect operations. Automation ensures things run as expected and that code gets packaged and provisioned without human intervention." - Clive Longbottom
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QA skills Software testers must be proficient at test case design and bug tracking, and work with application development and security teams to make quality an organization-wide priority.
autonomous software testing
As software testers learn technical skills for test automation -- particularly how to write scripts -- autonomous testing can empower them to be more strategic in their efforts.
API testing
Make API testing part of your QA test planning any time you work on a web or mobile application, because APIs gather, send and exchange data between applications.
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