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Agile Testing: Key Factors & Core Practices
ADTmag.com Supercast
Lisa CrispinWith Material from Janet Gregory
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Introduction • Tester on agile teams since 2000• Current team:
• Delights customers• Releases every two weeks• Drives development with tests• 100% regression test
automation
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Takeaways
Keys to agile testing success Overcoming barriers Practical steps you can take today
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Use the Whole Team Approach
Adopt an Agile Testing Mindset
Automate Regression Testing
Provide and Obtain FeedbackBuild a Foundation of Core Agile Practices
Collaborate with Customer
Look at the Big Picture
Key Success Factors
Succeeding with Agile Testing
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The Whole Team Approach Team committed to testing, quality Daily collaboration A learning culture Anyone can do any task Knowledge / skill transfer Get the right people
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Agile Testing Mindset No Quality Police Continually improve Don’t sit and wait – be proactive Coding and testing are part of one
process Apply agile principles and values
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Automate Regression Testing• Drive development with tests• Design for testability• Team effort• Team chooses tools• Start simple
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Test Automation Pyramid
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Provide and Obtain Feedback Core agile value Team uses feedback to improve Testers are expert feedback providers Feedback => course corrections
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Foundation of Core Practices Continuous integration Frequent and fast feedback
Coding and testing one process Test environments Manage technical debt Work incrementally Synergy
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Collaborate with Customers Elicit examples Whiteboard discussions Adapt for distributed teams Power of Three
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Look at the Big Picture Drive development with business-facing
tests, examples Use real world test data Think about impacts on other areas Use exploratory testing Use the Agile Testing Quadrants
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Agile Testing Quadrants
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Mindset Change
Big Picture View
Whole Team
Automate Regression Tests
Provide Feedback
Core Agile Practices
Customer Collaboration
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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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Bridging the Communication GapSpecification By Example and Acceptance Testing
Gojko Adzic
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All Proceeds to Charity!
Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
Edited by Tim Riley, Adam Goucher
Includes chapter by yours truly
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The Agile Samurai
Good intro to agile
Jonathan Rasmussen
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Some Agile Testing Resourceslisacrispin.comjanetgregory.caexampler.comagile-testing@yahoogroups.comtestobsessed.comtestingreflections.comdhemery.com
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Questions?