--- title: Why We Shift Testing Left: A Software Dev Cycle That... description: Shifting testing left is a practice of moving testing earlier in the development process to improve developer velocity and reduce bugs in production. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-shift-testing-left-a-software-dev-cycle-that-doesn-t-scale-t8p1pvh0p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why We Shift Testing Left: A Software Dev Cycle That Doesn’t Scale | daily.dev og:description: Shifting testing left is a practice of moving testing earlier in the development process to improve developer velocity and reduce bugs in production. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-we-shift-testing-left-a-software-dev-cycle-that-doesn-t-scale-t8p1pvh0p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/T8P1PvH0P.png og:image:alt: Why We Shift Testing Left: A Software Dev Cycle That Doesn’t Scale og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/T8P1PvH0P) # [Why We Shift Testing Left: A Software Dev Cycle That Doesn’t Scale](https://api.daily.dev/r/T8P1PvH0P "Go to post") Shifting testing left is a practice of moving testing earlier in the development process to improve developer velocity and reduce bugs in production. 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