Straight-Through Quality (STQ) are approaches and outputs of

test automation In software testing, test automation is the use of software separate from the software being tested to control the execution of tests and the comparison of actual outcomes with predicted outcomes. Test automation can automate some repetitive bu ...

that have

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and deliver business benefit. STQ takes its name from the business concept of

straight-through processing Straight-through processing (STP) is a method used by financial companies to speed up financial transactions by processing without manual intervention (straight-through). It was developed for equities trading in the early 1990s in London for autom ...

(STP). Also acting as a tool and enabler for STP. Traditional techniques for testing and delivery have often required a great deal of manual support and intervention. These approaches are subject to human error, cost of delay and lack of reuse. These also have the negative side-effect of being unable to deliver ' fail-fast' approaches, which have proven popular with

Agile Agile may refer to: * Agile, an entity that possesses agility Project management * Agile software development, a development method * Agile construction, iterative and incremental construction method * Agile learning, the application of incremen ...

practitioners. Previous traditional approaches have been typically expensive where whole silo'ed departments are created within commercial companies to deliver Quality and Deployment alone. Thus STQ as an approach hopes to resolve this problem.

Examples

Tangible examples of STQ approaches in the software industry are present and often known as continuous integration (CI) and

continuous delivery Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time and, following a pipeline through a "production-like environment", witho ...

(CD). These combined can ensure that software delivery is integrated, automatically tested and ready for automatic delivery at any time. Together

CI/CD In software engineering, CI/CD or CICD is the combined practices of continuous integration (CI) and (more often) continuous delivery or (less often) continuous deployment (CD). Comparison * Continuous integration: Frequent merging of severa ...

can enable STQ which can be used as Business output terminology for business users who do not understand the technical complexities of CI/CD.Straight-Through Quality - Introducing the Agile concepts of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery to the Business.
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Business Case for Test Automation
Quality Automation

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