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$DDOG “shift left strategy” - devs will like this observability. ![](https://cdn.commonstock.com/a8e229ae2c05b1675af2f388f1a581c9b3d8d48f258cde0c9eceac99831221a8-828x774.png)

Is it fair to define 'shift left testing' as:

Moving the testing phase to earlier stages of the development life cycle.

Advantages:
- Identify and resolve more bugs before they reach production and become too costly, time consuming, and risky to fix
- Automate more integration and delivery workflows and tests (which reduces the risk of human error and frees up developers)
- Teams can share ownership of testing responsibilities.

So would a 'shift left strategy' essentially be bringing data observability earlier to a development process?