Designing a Scalable Testing Strategy

Companies today often find themselves in positions where writing software tests are time-consuming and unproductive. leaving developers lacking clear guidance for how to test important features. Once your company reaches a certain size, it's important to develop a scalable test strategy to ensure engineers can continue writing good tests in a productive manner. In this talk, tech lead, author and professor Dr. Mauricio Aniche will explore different factors at play when designing a test strategy as well as the different trade-offs you will have to make to implement the right approach for your company. About the speaker Dr. Maurício Aniche’s life mission is to help software engineers to become better and more productive. Maurício is a Tech Lead at Adyen, where he heads the Tech Academy team and leads different engineering enablement initiatives. Maurício is also an assistant professor of software engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His teaching efforts in software testing gave him the Computer Science Teacher of the Year 2021 award and the TU Delft Education Fellowship, a prestigious fellowship given to innovative lecturers. He is the author of the “Effective Software Testing: A Developer’s Guide”, published by Manning in 2022. He’s currently working on a new book entitled “Simple Object-Oriented Design” which should be on the market soon.