In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are locked in a fierce competition to develop superior and more secure products. Success hinges on their ability to create better and faster applications, all while reducing the cost associated with ensuring quality. Shift-left testing helps teams test earlier in the development process, which shortens testing cycles and prevents unexpected issues from popping up during deployment or, even worse, after a product is already in use.
Significantly Lower Expenses
The main incentive to move testing to the left of your development cycle should come from this alone. A study by the Ponemon Institute indicates that resolving vulnerabilities costs approximately $80 if they’re identified early in the development process. However, if discovered later, say during the production phase, the same would cost roughly $7600.
Not to mention that once an app is published, the true cost of bugs and vulnerabilities becomes apparent.
Enhanced Quality of the Product
Bugs are easy to correct when they are discovered during the writing or review of code thanks to shift-left testing.
A key component of the shift-left approach is test automation, which allows for the early and frequent implementation of strict code quality checks without putting undue strain on the team. Test teams can conduct tests a few times a day, which allows them to promptly provide feedback and concerns to the development team, saving valuable time and effort on flawed code.
Efficient Fixing of Issues
Agile methodologies, automation, and digital innovation have completely transformed your application experience.
More time is available for bug fixes when the development and testing teams are coordinated from the start of the SDLC. A shift-left testing strategy is frequently advised in situations that require the program to be executed on time and sustainably. It eliminates situations in which executives have to revert to the fundamentals, saving a great deal of work.
Expanded Assessment and Testing Scope
Software Testing teams can evaluate the code and its features more thoroughly when they are involved from the start of the development cycle, which ultimately results in a higher-quality final product.
Active Management of Time and Resources
Changing expectations are difficult for old development strategies to manage, which frequently leads to higher expenses.
In addition to having to deal with strict deadlines, teams that use the standard SDLC model sometimes lose developer hours to laborious changes later in the cycle. By proactively engaging in an agile framework, Shift-left testing enables the testing and development teams to identify mistakes early on, resulting in greater resource utilization.
Canarys helps you to do strategic assessment and planning
In order to use shift-left testing effectively, DevOps procedures must be adhered to, QA automation must be integrated across the SDLC, and suitable code standards must be upheld in an agile setting and we help you to do exactly the same.