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'''Shift-left testing'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.sei.cmu.edu/post.cfm/four-types-shift-left-testing-082 |title=Four Types of Shift Left Testing |author=Donald Firesmith | date=23 March 2015 |accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref> is an approach to [[software testing]] and [[system testing]] in which testing is performed earlier in the lifecycle (i.e., moved left on the project timeline). It is the first half of the maxim "Test early and often."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ee330950%28v=vs.110%29.aspx |title=Test Early and Often |author=Microsoft | date=2012 |accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref> It was coined by Larry Smith in 2001.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Larry|date=September 2001|title=Shift-Left Testing|url=|journal=Dr. Dobbs Journal|volume=26|pages=56, 62|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810171940/http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/biblio/ddj/Website/articles/DDJ/2001/0109/0109e/0109e.htm|title=Sep01: Shift-Left Testing|date=2014-08-10|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>

== Harm due to late testing ==