The software testing industry seems to have a recurring habit of rediscovering established practices, giving them fashionable new names, and presenting them as the next big innovation. I find myself wondering: are we actually advancing the discipline, or just reinventing its vocabulary? 1. Shift-left Testing – Discovering What We Already Knew? Reviewing requirements before development, identifying ambiguities in acceptance criteria, involving testers early, preparing test cases before implementation, and identifying defects as early as possible have been established software engineering and testing practices for decades. There is nothing particularly revolutionary about these activities. Yet, suddenly, we have a fashionable new term for them: Shift-left Testing . Are we really discovering something new, or simply giving established practices a new name and presenting them as the next big thing? Good testing has always been about preventing defects rather than waiting for them to appear...