eClinical Shifts Left

By Mark Maietta, President, YPrime

Shift left testing ignited a revolution in modern software development with the concept of early and continuous testing, resulting in higher quality and faster delivery. The shift left testing principles focus on continuous integration and delivery, a practice designed to find and prevent defects early in the software delivery process.

Continuous integration is a development methodology that involves frequent integration of code into a shared repository through built-in controls that ensure quality and efficiency. Continuous delivery is the process of streamlining changes to production, such as configuration changes, new features, and error fixes, with a goal of ensuring each deployment is high quality, sustainable, predictable, and scheduled in a routine manner.