MAIN TRACK TALK

Making room for testing – empowering teams to deliver business value with confidence

Many teams proudly report ‘80%+ test coverage’ and still ship outages. On paper, projects show solid unit and integration tests. In reality, they have a stubborn, double-digit change failure rate, frequent production issues, and a growing backlog of defects. High coverage is telling the level of busyness, not the confidence of a safe change. This talk shares how teams confronted that gap and rebuilt approach to quality using DORA metrics and actionable, cross-platform, cross-craft, quality practices.

Used DORA metrics plus defect age and escaped bugs to pinpoint where our current testing wasn’t protecting us. Rebalanced strategies from mostly tech-facing unit tests towards a mix of technology-facing and business-facing checks that actually reflected real user journeys and business-critical flows. Turned a high-level ‘quality vision’ into actionable quality goals for individual teams: each with its own quality objectives, minimal validation set, and a small set of metrics that were reviewed every quarter. Re-think standard testing models/pyramids to valuable fast feedback loops and the specific validations we expect at each.

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Andrei Contan

Andrei is helping teams build software smarter, think clearer, and define their processes moving from ‘let’s write code’ to ‘how do we know we’re building something valuable?’ He is passionate about how organisations work, why some decisions fail and how we can redesign systems not just switch tools.