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Agile Testing: Key Factors & Core Practices

ADTmag.com Supercast

Lisa CrispinWith Material from Janet Gregory

Copyright 2010: Lisa Crispin

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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


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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Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

By Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory

www.agiletester.ca

Copyright 2010: Lisa Crispin Copyright 2008 Janet Gregory, DragonFire

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Some Agile Testing Resourceslisacrispin.comjanetgregory.caexampler.comagile-testing@yahoogroups.comtestobsessed.comtestingreflections.comdhemery.com


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