How We Built a Quality-Driven Development from Scratch
“When I talk to my colleagues and tell them that we have a team of developers that are performing manual testing guided by a test-plan nobody believes me… ” Let me just start by saying that I’m very proud of our team and how far we have come. Since my arrival, we have tripled in size and have significantly improved our quality standards. When I Joined Testim, we were a small R&D team based in Israel. We had no QA department or defined testing process and had to implement it all from scratch. There are many challenges in trying to create a process where testing is integrated into our CI/CD workflows. For one, there is awareness. The process of assimilating the Idea that we have to test our produced features and acknowledging there are consequences if we don’t. We have a very talented and speed oriented Dev team. But, it comes to a point when you have to stop and take a step back to really plan for the future. As we strive for continuous improvement, we have to periodically...