Shift-Left Testing

Summary

Moving testing activities earlier in the development process — reviewing requirements, writing test cases before code is even written — catching issues when they're cheapest to fix.

• 1Identify a testing activity that could move earlier in a hypothetical project's timeline.
• 2Learn why fixing an issue found during requirements review is far cheaper than fixing it post-release.
• 3Preview Phase 10's Application Security connection to shift-left thinking in a security context.