Quality-Driven Development for enhanced collaboration between QA and Developers

Quality-driven development is the need of the hour for most of the companies to have a successful web application development. Instead of the development and QA team working independently, quality-driven development would help both the teams to coordinate together so as to have a QA-implemented automation to run within the development environment. The main objective of quality-driven development is to avoid the test duplication efforts.

For achieving a quality-driven development, the automated tests generated by QA would be run within the development environment. In addition it, whenever a tester identifies a bug or a problem, they can report it to the programmer and get it fixed at that instant itself without waiting to assign it to others. The new quality-driven development model is time consuming as the developer cannot claim the task to be completed successfully unless the automated tests were performed successfully. The initial objective would be learn the automation tool as it would help to generate a stronger foundation that would help make the automation ready whenever the coding is finished.

Making the team to collaborate with the new environment is another big task wherein communication is the key. An effective communication is required for understanding what is being coded by the developers on a daily basis. Thus the implementation of a pre-built automation framework for supporting code proved to be of immense help for the developers as they were able to focus more on the customer requirements. Similarly, the new process proved to be helpful for the QA team also as it helped to transform the time consuming testing tasks manual set to an interesting dynamic sequence of Ad hoc tasks. The new process has also led to the effective utilization of the QA team during the critical sprint tasks. A consistent quality was assured through automated test runs and thereby avoiding the need for running the regression tests traditionally.

Thus the additional time that was associated with the running of regression tests can be further utilized for the development of cloud-based applications and also for learning new technologies that would be useful for the company as a whole. Quality driven development has also helped the QA team to effectively engage in technical discussions with the architects as well as developers thus helping them to gain more knowledge regarding how the features are implemented rather than restricting to what a feature actually does.

The benefits of quality driven development is many and most of the companies using this model have began to see the impact of the process with every sprint. The new quality driven development was also able to bring the QA team and development team closer and work in close coordination with each other throughout the development cycle. Thus developers can provide suggestions to the QA team well in advance and thereby helping the QA team to build a better test strategy. Quality driven development was able to enhance the quality of the products, improve and streamline the testing process effectively, made the companies more agile and helped in improving the overall customer satisfaction.