Chapter 9. The Role of Quality Assurance in Lean-Agile Software Development

“When you are up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember your original intention was to drain the swamp.”  —Author unknown

In This Chapter

This chapter covers several critical issues surrounding the role of quality assurance in Lean-Agile software development.

• The role of testers must be one of preventing defects, not finding them.

• How moving the specification of acceptance test to the start of the development cycle can greatly reduce waste—both the waste of building the wrong thing and the waste of building the thing wrong.

• What to do when it is not easy to test early.

The terms “Quality Assurance” (QA) and “Quality Control” (QC) are used in a variety ...

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