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How To Implement ATDD In Large Scale Agile Projects

Raj Subrameyer

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AGENDA● CONTEXT

● PROBLEMS

● ATDD IMPLEMENTATION

● RESULTS

● Q & A


CONTEXT


PROBLEMS


PROBLEMS● No transparency

● Ambiguity in requirements

● No one owned the stories

● No one knew about the

automation framework

● No QA-Dev collaboration

● Frequent scope creep

● Team morale - all time low


HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE FACED THESE PROBLEMS?


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ATDD IMPLEMENTATION


WHOLE TEAM (25 people)

TEAM B (13 people)TEAM A (12 people)

WILL FOLLOW ATDD WILL CONTINUE OLD PROCESS


ATDDIMPLEMENTATION

CYCLE

Training and experimentation

Increasing visibility

Iterative learning and feedback


STEP 1

TRAINING AND EXPERIMENTATION


TRAINING● How to write Gherkin (GWT)?

● Key attributes of a good story

● Demonstration of automation framework

● Exercises to write test code as a team


Cucumber(Feature File)

Step Definition

WebDriver script(.net, java, nodeJS, php, etc…)

Device Or Emulators(iOS/Android)

Requirement

Methods to Implement

JSON/HTTP UI Automation

APPIUM Server

Cucumber withAppium Work Flow


STEP 2

INCREASING VISIBILITY


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DAILY PROCESSES & CHECKLISTS

CHECKLISTS● Kick-off meetings

● QA-Dev handoff meetings

● Unit Test Written

● Automation Tests Written

● Story Testing complete

● PO demo complete


Daily processes Process Hawk Automation visibility

INCREASING VISIBILITY


STEP 3

ITERATIVE LEARNING AND FEEDBACK


ITERATIVE FEEDBACK

Bi-Weekly retrospective

meetings

Quick 30 min meeting/week with Team A

Daily standup meetings


IMPACT OF ATDD ON TESTING


ATDD AND TESTING● Clarity on what is automated vs

not automated

● Paired exploratory testing

● Dev-QA paired up to write

automation code

● Tagging modules in

automation code

● Had separate automated

Smoke and Regression Test

● 2 day PR rule for automation

code


SESSION BASED EXPLORATORY TESTING● 45-90 minute Time Boxed Sessions

● Charter/Goal

● Note Test Ideas/Scenarios

● Paraphrase/Debrief

● Discuss Observations

● Post Defects


EXPLORATORY TESTING BLOG POST: http://www.rajsubra.com/sbtm/


http://www.rajsubra.com/2018/06/06/sbtm/

ATDD AND TESTING● Clarity on what is automated vs

not automated

● Paired exploratory testing

● Dev-QA paired up to write

automation code

● Tagging modules in

automation code

● Had separate automated

Smoke and Regression Test

● 2 day PR rule for automation

code


RESULTS


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CONCLUSION


CONCLUSION● Aligns with “Shift-Left Paradigm”

● More visibility into automation

● Not “One size fits all” approach


YOU CAN DO THIS TOO


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