Expanding Your Testing Scope: Thinking Beyond System Health

A big part of testing is ensuring that you're anticipating and proactively detecting problems before they appear. This means thinking beyond bugs and errors and considering tests that assess your system's ability to meet the needs of the business and customers. For example, most businesses and architectures are designed to deliver operational and cost efficiency. The challenge is, many organizations don't actively test/measure their efficiency. Customers also have expectations about their experience. What testing do you do to evaluate how the system is meeting its experience goals? This session will look at the broader scope of testing, looking at strategies, techniques, and technologies that can be used to assess these broader considerations. The goal here is to broaden the scope of testing, establishing a new testing mental model that challenges testing and validation to be more connected to the cost, operational, and efficiency of the business.