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Straight-Through Quality are approaches and outputs of test automation that have quality and deliver business benefit. STQ takes its name from the business concept of straight-through processing. Also acting as a tool and enabler for STP.
Traditional techniques for testing and delivery have often required a great deal of manual support and intervention. These approaches are subject to human error, cost of delay and lack of reuse. These also have the negative side-effect of being unable to deliver 'fail-fast' approaches, which have proven popular with Agile practitioners. Previous traditional approaches have been typically expensive where whole silo'ed departments are created within commercial companies to deliver Quality and Deployment alone. Thus STQ as an approach hopes to resolve this problem.