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QA Myths Busting: A Practical Guide to Higher Quality

Vitaly Sharovatov

from Qase (Marseille, France)

About speaker

As a quality enthusiast, I believe that people should take pride in their work and companies should aim to produce high-quality products. I have spent the last 23 years in IT, focusing on engineering, quality assurance and mentorship.

About speakers company

Qase is an all-in-one test management platform for planning, executing, managing, and analyzing both manual and automated tests. With 35 integrations, an intuitive UI, and AI-powered features, Qase helps you deliver higher quality software, faster.

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Have you ever felt the urge to increase the amount of testing, thinking it would directly improve product quality? Have you ever been held “accountable” for quality or pressed for time, leaving you feeling helpless? Or perhaps you’ve been asked to justify quality assurance initiatives with numbers?

Our industry is filled with myths: from “quality can be measured” to “more testing means higher quality” and from “QA slows down work” to “testers are responsible for quality”. I believed them all too once, then I started questioning my beliefs when I saw how product quality improved when we reduced code coverage from 70% to 40% — I then realised that quality metrics are only proxy metrics and their correlation should be revisited regularly.

Join me and let's see what dangers all these myths pose to both teams and products, and how they should be debunked and overcome.

The talk was accepted to the conference program

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