A phrase we hear often in Software Testing circles and commentary is “shift left.” When we dig a little, we realize that “shift left” is talking about the idea that Software Testing is happening either too late in the process or it is not effective at the time it is being allocated. This dates back to an embrace, willingly or not, of the traditional Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and especially the Agile Waterfall (Agile Falls) methodology. In the waterfall methodology, each piece is completed (design, programming, testing, packaging, etc.) and the product moves through each of those cycles.

Michael Larsen

Michael Larsen is a Senior Automation Engineer with LTG/PeopleFluent. Over the past three decades, he has been involved in software testing for a range of products and industries, including network routers & switches, virtual machines, capacitance touch devices, video games, and client/server, distributed database & web applications.

Michael is a Black Belt in the Miagi-Do School of Software Testing, helped start and facilitate the Americas chapter of Weekend Testing, is a former Chair of the Education Special Interest Group with the Association for Software Testing (AST), a lead instructor of the Black Box Software Testing courses through AST, and former Board Member and President of AST. Michael writes the TESTHEAD blog and can be found on Twitter at @mkltesthead. A list of books, articles, papers, and presentations can be seen at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mkltesthead.

This article is a follow-up to How to Accelerate your Transition to the Cloud. In which we discuss the reasoning for migrating to the cloud, lift and considerations for moving, most notably lift and shift and if QA leaders need to be all in. It can be read online at LogiGear.com/blog 

Michael Larsen

Michael Larsen is a Senior Automation Engineer with LTG/PeopleFluent. Over the past three decades, he has been involved in software testing for a range of products and industries, including network routers & switches, virtual machines, capacitance touch devices, video games, and client/server, distributed database & web applications.

Michael is a Black Belt in the Miagi-Do School of Software Testing, helped start and facilitate the Americas chapter of Weekend Testing, is a former Chair of the Education Special Interest Group with the Association for Software Testing (AST), a lead instructor of the Black Box Software Testing courses through AST, and former Board Member and President of AST. Michael writes the TESTHEAD blog and can be found on Twitter at @mkltesthead. A list of books, articles, papers, and presentations can be seen at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mkltesthead.

Technical debt is not something an organization intends to get into. As we get involved in a new venture, or we look to expand on or develop a new opportunity for a legacy market, we think we are making good choices or that we have covered our bases when it comes to development and testing initiatives. However, over time and as demands for time and attention grow, technical debt is a persistent issue. It is common but it doesn’t need to be inevitable. Additionally, technical debt is, like any other debt, something that can creep up on us if we are not aware or alert to its ramifications. 

Michael Larsen

Michael Larsen is a Senior Automation Engineer with LTG/PeopleFluent. Over the past three decades, he has been involved in software testing for a range of products and industries, including network routers & switches, virtual machines, capacitance touch devices, video games, and client/server, distributed database & web applications.

Michael is a Black Belt in the Miagi-Do School of Software Testing, helped start and facilitate the Americas chapter of Weekend Testing, is a former Chair of the Education Special Interest Group with the Association for Software Testing (AST), a lead instructor of the Black Box Software Testing courses through AST, and former Board Member and President of AST. Michael writes the TESTHEAD blog and can be found on Twitter at @mkltesthead. A list of books, articles, papers, and presentations can be seen at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mkltesthead.