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Teams can implement quality gates into the release process by asking themselves and their teammates a series of questions before passing code onto the next phase:
<ol>
<li>Where are my untested code changes?</li>
<li>What is my overall code coverage?</li>
<li>Did my tests fail, and if so, am I comfortable with those failures?</li>
</ol>
Read on to learn about the strategies that can help you implement these quality gates – and the tool that will help you ensure the right answers to these questions.

The next time you hop in a car, consider how that car came to be. A car production line is made up of several stations, each creating a separate part such as doors, hoods, and handles. The car doesn’t pass onto the next station until the previous station properly completes its task – cause it’s impossible to add tires till you have a frame!
Think of quality gates as the car assembly stations of software testing. Deliverables must meet specific criteria to progress through the gate and onto the next stage of the SDLC. Like on the line, if all is good, then the car proceeds to the next station. And if not, it’s stopped and sent back to be fixed.
In today’s enterprise IT environments where speed is everything, it can be tempting to crash through the quality gates in the rush to production. But by taking the time to understand where the quality issues exist in your current processes, you can gain more visibility into your risks and prevent defects and errors from slipping into production where they are the most expensive to fix and rework. However, in today’s complex organizations, gaining this kind of visibility into quality is far easier said than done.
According to an article in the <a href="https://hbr.org/2021/02/software-testing-is-tedious-ai-can-help" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Business Review</a>, “Few C-suite executives understand the inefficiencies buried in their software development processes and how addressing those inefficiencies can significantly sharpen their competitive edge.” All too often, it’s code changes that miss the quality gates and go untested on their way to production.
At Tricentis, we have witnessed first-hand the benefits of implementing quality gates to intelligently identify gaps in test coverage across E2E, regression, integration, CI, and manual tests to minimize risks and release with higher quality, faster. Furthermore, organizations can test smarter by determining which tests to skip and which ones to run, leading to accelerated go/no-go decisions, shortened testing cycle times, and faster releases.
Organizations can ensure they block untested code changes from reaching production by introducing three key quality gates – or predefined criteria that must be met before the project can progress – into their release processes

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Teams can implement quality gates into the release process by asking themselves and their teammates a series of questions before passing code onto the next phase:
<ol>
<li><a href="#where-are-my-untested-code-changes">Where are my untested code changes?</a></li>
<li><a href="#whats-my-overall-code-coverage">What is my overall code coverage?</a></li>
<li><a href="#did-my-tests-fail">Did my tests fail, and if so, am I comfortable with those failures?</a></li>
</ol>
Read on to learn about the strategies that can help you implement these quality gates – and the tool that will help you ensure the right answers to these questions.

3 quality gates to transform software testing

You don’t know what you don’t know. You may have been getting by only relying on unit tests, making pass/fail decisions, or even a gut feeling. But those metrics aren’t sufficient to keep up with today’s complex IT landscape. To release with confidence, you need to find all of the code changes that may be hiding among your many applications, microservices, and more.
To address the uncertainty, many teams decide to run all of their tests for safety’s sake. But running every test in your test suite before a release can create a bottleneck. A tool like Tricentis SeaLights prioritizes only the necessary tests based on what&#8217;s actually at risk. It provides comprehensive code changes coverage analysis for every kind of test, including unit, component, API, integration, functional, and manual tests. Decisions become entirely quantitative, as you can see coverage for each kind of test down to the method or function level.
The AI-powered quality intelligence platform includes a dashboard where rows represent your various software pipelines. Each row has its own quality gate so you can set the threshold for testing changes. By identifying and blocking your untested code changes from reaching production, you’ll minimize production defects and ensure high-quality with end-to-end test coverage. (<a href="#3-quality-gates">Back to quality gates questions</a>)

1. Where are my untested code changes?

Now we’re going to zoom out and consider your overall code coverage, the metric that measures the percentage of your source code that is executed by your tests. This quality gate is especially important to consider for organizations that have older, legacy applications where the source code hasn&#8217;t changed in many years. Regulated organizations with code coverage reporting requirements may also need to answer this question. Either way, knowing is infinitely better than guessing in this context.
SeaLights provides overall code coverage for every test type and stage. The test gap analysis allows developers to see the overall coverage gap and modified coverage gap. Should your overall code coverage quality gate fail, your teams will be read in via Slack channel or a shared email thread so they can jump right into the report. (<a href="#3-quality-gates">Back to quality gates questions</a>)

2. What is my overall code coverage?

This is probably the one place where having failure as an option is a good thing. That’s because you need a quality gate to determine whether or not your tests failed, how many failed, and why they failed. If a test fails for a code issue, it&#8217;s indicative that something went wrong, and it’s beneficial that you caught it and can fix it before it reaches production, saving the business time and costs.
SeaLights tells you how many of your tests failed, either by integers or percentage, depending on your risk profile. Knowing this number can help organizations focus their troubleshooting efforts on critical tests that needed to run and failed, rather than troubleshooting all the failures from executing all of their tests. (<a href="#3-quality-gates">Back to quality gates questions</a>)

3. Did my tests fail, and if so, am I comfortable with those failures?

The gaming company implemented SeaLights to get detailed insight into new untested code changes and comprehensive analysis into code coverage. The team was able to automatically block untested changes from reaching production and eliminate gaps in their test plan. This resulted in a 90% reduction in production defects, allowing the team to cut test cycle time and costs by executing only code change-related tests. The company can now troubleshoot and fix issues faster by focusing on relevant tests and has minimized the risk of production errors by identifying and addressing gaps in test coverage.
“What we really like about SeaLights is that we can quickly see our quality risks and easily understand what our tests are not covering as our codebase changes over time.” 
&#8211; Software quality lead, global gaming company
The powerful SeaLights solution enables organizations to understand where new code changes can have an impact, assess the risk of new code changes, determine if there are code coverage gaps, and resolve bugs introduced with new code changes all in a continuous automation testing cycle. With SeaLights, you’ll get the metrics, traceability, and insights you need to meet your quality gates and deliver software quickly. Even though the math doesn’t work, having these three quality gates does add up to zero defects in production.

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