Quality Engineering Strategy

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Rik Marselis

Sogeti

EuroSTAR 2023 Virtual Day was an event to share ideas, knowledge, inspiration and to connect as a community. Its talks covered the strategic importance of testing, the quality engineering strategy, valuable techniques for better efficiency in your work, neurodivergency in the testing world, the value of continuously learning from mistakes and not accepting complacency, leveraging feedback processes, well-balanced teams, and why humans become vulnerable to Plan Continuation Bias.

In this talk, Rik Marselis, winner of the EuroSTAR 2023 Testing Excellence Award, shares: Quality Engineering Strategy

Most testers know (and use) a test strategy. In today’s world of high-performance IT delivery, that is not enough. Introducing: the Quality Engineering Strategy.

The goal of such strategy is to describe the allocation of quality measures to IT delivery items (e.g. user stories, features etc.), to balance the investment in quality engineering activities and to make an optimal distribution of effort over fundamental DevOps activities and Test Varieties. The quality risk class is used to assign the intensity of the quality measures that must be applied. The Quality Engineering Strategy uses 4 groups of quality measures: Build quality in (also known as preventive), Demonstrate quality statically (also known as detective and static testing), Demonstrate quality dynamically (also known as detective and dynamic testing) and Improve quality (also known as corrective).
If you like you can follow this webinar as a workshop, then you download and use the template of the quality engineering strategy and fill it in for your own situation.

This webinar is based on the latest TMAP book “Quality for DevOps teams”. Rik will use the Excel-template from the body of knowledge website www.TMAP.net.

About Me!

Rik Marselis is principal quality consultant at Sogeti in the Netherlands. He is a highly regarded presenter, trainer, author, consultant and coach who supported many organizations and people in improving their quality engineering & testing practice by providing useful tools & checklists, practical support and having in-depth discussions. His presentations are always appreciated for their liveliness, his ability to keep the talks serious but light, and his use of practical examples with humorous comparisons.

Rik is an accredited trainer for TMAP, ISTQB and TPI certification training courses, but also he has created and delivered many bespoke workshops and training courses. For example, on quality engineering for Intelligent Machines and DevOps. He is the chairman of the TMAP special interest group.

Rik is a fellow of Sogeti’s R&D network SogetiLabs. These R&D activities result in presentations, books, white-papers, articles, podcasts and blogs about IT in general and quality engineering & testing in particular. He is a co-author of the TMAP book “Quality for DevOps teams” and contributor to the www.TMAP.net body of knowledge for quality engineering & testing.

In 2023 Rik received the EuroSTAR 2023 Testing Excellence Award and in 2022 he received the ISTQB Software Testing Excellence Award and the EuroSTAR Best Tutorial Award.