Quality Improvement Approaches
SeaLights' main quality improvement approaches empowers teams to build and maintain a culture of continuous quality improvement. Each approach has distinct benefits and can be tailored to suit your organization's goals and resources effectively.
Release Quality Improvement ensures stable releases, while Over Time Quality Improvement lays the foundation for future reliability and maintainability.
Release Quality Improvement
Focuses on ensuring code changes for product deployment are adequately covered by tests.
Uses Code Changes Coverage as a KPI and quality gate for releases.
Ensures releases meet quality standards before going live.
Over Time Quality Improvement
Takes a long-term view, focusing on gradual improvement of overall code coverage.
Identifies untested code changes but doesn't block immediate releases.
Aims to steadily increase coverage over time, leading to long-term quality enhancement.
Key considerations for successful SeaLights implementation
Defining processes: Establish best practices for analyzing coverage gaps, writing new tests based on identified gaps, and determining appropriate test quantities and types.
Setting KPIs: Implement new KPIs within existing processes to track progress towards quality objectives.
Determining quality gates: Define clear criteria for go/no-go release decisions, including desired coverage levels and acceptable risk thresholds.
Planning and checkpointing: Even with the "over time" approach, plan a timeline with defined checkpoints, set specific coverage goals, prioritize areas for improvement, and establish clear release criteria.
SeaLights empowers data-driven decision-making, but it's your organization's commitment to continuous improvement that unlocks the full potential of this powerful solution. Remember, the data provided by SeaLights is just the starting point. Building a culture of quality requires ongoing effort, planning, and the creation and maintenance of new processes and KPIs.
By actively engaging in these considerations, your organization can leverage SeaLights as a catalyst for achieving continuous quality improvement, faster releases, and enhanced software reliability.
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