Embracing Shift-Left Testing

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Argues that shift-left is about concrete practices not buzzwords and can be fully manual as well as automated, claiming a finance client moves from three releases a year to weekly by automating environment provisioning and parallelising tests; healthcare project adopts test‑driven development as the primary safety net; tooling includes Docker containers and database snapshots, CI/CD, git, Selenium, ZAP, TestRail, Azure/TFS to get fast feedback and fewer late defects.

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1. 0:00Shift-left testing introduction
2. 1:50Speaker background
3. 3:36Testing history overview
4. 5:44Benefits of shifting left
5. 11:06Shift-left strategies
6. 16:05Design thinking shift-left
7. 20:39QA roles in agile
8. 23:27Feedback loops and test design
9. 27:01Tools for shift-left
10. 29:53Shift-left success examples
11. 33:04Misconceptions and challenges
12. 39:30Q&A

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