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Agile: The Death of the
Tester?Andrew Palmer - 02/Oct/14
@MRAJPalmerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mrajpalmer
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The Challenges• Am I hiring the right people?• Is the new world going to cost me
money?• What does QA mean now?
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Remembering Prince2• The introduction of PRINCE2 and the
standard of gated methodology• Waterfall or V Model - given a spec to test• The Testers had a defined role:
• Test Plans, Scripts and Results• Test Environments• Sign Off
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Service Manual - The New Prince 2?
• The introduction of the Service Manual and the Digital Service Standard Assessment
• User based requirements and acceptance• The Testers part of a delivery team:
• Conduct user testing• TDD• Tests are an asset of the product
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What a Tester is now?
‘Waterfall’ ‘Agile’
Test ManagementTest Plans
Test ResultsGherkin
Kanban Board
Manual TestingTest Cases
Test ExecutionVerification of Stories
Acceptance Tests
Automated Testing Repeatable Tests TDD
Non-functional Testing Performance verificationContinuous Performance
Testing
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What’s the problem?• Do we need to re-train Testers? • Can we trust developers?• Should we change our recruitment policy?• Can we estimate effort?• Can we evaluate team performance?
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Cost• Test Analyst: £35,000• Agile Test Analyst: £42,000
• ISEB Foundation Course: £1,150• Certified Agile Tester Course: £1,780