Are you familiar with the Shift-Left approach?

The Shift-Left approach in testing means moving quality assurance stages of software development to earlier phases.

The idea is to detect and fix defects as early as possible, which reduces correction costs and speeds up product release.

Examples of implementing Shift-Left:

• Involving QA engineers during the planning and requirements analysis stages.
• Automating tests and running them during the build stage (CI).
• Using static code analysis and code reviews to identify errors before execution.

Thus, Shift-Left promotes closer collaboration between developers and testers, improves quality, and reduces the time needed to fix bugs.