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"Seven Key Factors for Agile Testing Success"

Presented by:

Lisa Crispin ePlan Services, Inc.

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330 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 888-268-8770 · 904-278-0524 · [email protected] · www.sqe.com

Lisa Crispin Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world. Lisa joined her first agile team in 2000, having enjoyed many years working as a programmer, analyst, tester, and QA director. Since 2003, she’s been a tester on a Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc. She frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences in North America and Europe. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. For more about Lisa’s work, visit www.lisacrispin.com.

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Seven Key Factors for Agile Testing Successg g

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Lisa CrispinWith Material from Janet Gregory

Introduction • Tester on agile teams since 2000• Current team:

• Has delighted customersg• Delivers value to production every 2

weeks• Drives development with tests,

examples• 100% regression test automation

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Your Agile Experience

How about you?How many on agile teams?H i t iti ?How many in transition?How many planning a transition?How many on more traditional teams?

Agile testing works on those, too.Managers, testers, developers...?


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Takeaways

Keys to agile testing successOvercoming barriersP ti l t t k t dPractical steps you can take today

Even on non-agile team


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Key Success Factors


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The Whole Team Approach

Team committed to testing, qualityDaily collaborationT t t t t i iTesters get support, trainingAnyone can do any taskTesters transfer testing knowledgeGet the right people


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Who’s On Your Team?Separate test team?

How could you integrate more with developers?How could you collaborate more with customers?

Does your team have all the roles, skills needed?


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Agile Testing Mindset

No Quality PoliceContinually improveD ’t it d it b tiDon’t sit and wait – be proactiveCoding and testing are part of one processApply agile principles and values


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What Do You Do To Improve?

Professional developmentTeam, process improvementH b ti ?How can you be more proactive?


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Automate Regression Testing

• Drive development with tests• Design for testability

T ff t• Team effort• Team chooses tools• Start simple


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Regression Test Automation Issues?Make it a team problem to solveGet over “hump of pain”Unit tests have best ROIUnit tests have best ROIGUI smoke tests option for legacy code

But choose tool carefully

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Test Automation Pyramid


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Provide and Obtain FeedbackCore agile valueTeam uses feedback to improveTesters are expert feedback providersTesters are expert feedback providersFeedback lets team make course corrections


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Focusing on FeedbackBig Visible ChartsRetrospectivesEmail test results from build processEmail test results from build processTake advantage of short iterationsDiscoveries during exploratory testingCollaboration with users, customers


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Foundation of Core PracticesContinuous integration

Frequent and fast feedbackCoding and testing one processCoding and testing one processTest environmentsManage technical debtWork incrementallySynergy


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Implementing Core PracticesSelf-organizing teamPlan stories/tasks to build infrastructure“Refactoring iterations”Refactoring iterationsBaby steps – address one thing at a time


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Collaborate with Customers

Elicit examplesWhiteboard discussionsAd t f di t ib t d tAdapt for distributed teamsPower of Three


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Getting Customers on Board

Build trustLearn their jobsA k f t l iAsk for concrete examples, scenarios

“How will you use this?”“What’s the worst that can happen?”

Facilitate developer-customer communication

But don’t get in the way


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But don t get in the way

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Look at the Big Picture

Drive development with business-facing tests, examplesUse real world test dataUse real world test dataThink about impacts on other areasUse exploratory testingUse the Agile Testing Quadrants


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Agile Testing Quadrants


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Questions?


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Now Available

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

By Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory

www.agiletester.ca

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Some Agile Testing Resourceslisacrispin.comjanetgregory.caagilealliance.orgagilealliance.orgexampler.comagile-testing@yahoogroups.comtestobsessed.comtestingreflections.com


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