Whitepaper
Delta Testing 101
Learn practical techniques for post-launch continuous customer testing within an agile environment. This whitepaper contains basic principles for rapid, ongoing feedback collection.
PDF · 14 pages · June 28, 2019
The fast pace of continuous delivery leaves software teams short on time and resources, and customer testing after launch is often what gets squeezed. This whitepaper is for engineers, product managers, and quality professionals who want to keep release quality up while keeping pace with agile development and continuous delivery.
It introduces delta testing, which asks real customers to try what changed since the last build. Along the way it sets the practices beside traditional beta testing, so you can see how the two differ.
What’s inside
The post-launch testing gap
How customer expectations pushed teams toward agile and continuous delivery, and why standard beta processes struggle to keep up once a product is live.
What delta testing is
How it works, its four common use cases, who manages it, and the benefits of bringing customers into the post-launch life cycle.
Practices for ongoing testing
Covers continuous planning, replenishing testers, recurring incentives, passive testing phases, feedback aging, and customer verification, each compared with traditional beta practice.
Surveys and build comparisons
How to track product KPIs on a regular cadence and compare metrics between builds to show what your testing delivers.
