Testing Serverless, the Cloud and the Last Mile of Value — feat. Lewis Prescott (Cancer Research UK)

Show notes

A QA automation lead on serverless testing, shift-right, feature flags and proving delivered value. Lewis Prescott, QA Automation Lead at Cancer Research UK, discusses testing serverless Lambda architectures on a cancer genome project with AstraZeneca, where there are no integration points and everything is code. He contrasts ASOS's approach of using real multi-region users and blue-green deployments as UI tests with high-level UI coverage on a charity budget. The conversation ranges over shift-right testing, feature flags reducing the need for many environments, blurring of dev, ops and QA roles, and configuration-management testing. A key thread is the business 'last mile': continuously validating whether delivered features still add value, illustrated by a gluten-free product line and gamification of fundraising via Strava. **In this episode:** - Cloud Testing - Shift-Right Testing -