W6 Session 10/26/2016 11:30:00 AM

Design for Testability in Practice Presented by:

Nir Szilagyi

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Nir Szilagyi PayPal Senior quality engineering manager Nir Szilagyi brings more than sixteen years of experience to the risk platform engineering team he leads at PayPal. Previously at eBay, he led the products platform quality engineering team in Israel and US. In both companies, Nir led the team transformation from a classic advisory group to an agile engineering team, focusing on quality throughout the product development lifecycle. Passionate about automation and testing smarter, Nir believes that agility, engineering solutions for quality, influencing testability, and open communication drive organizations forward. Nir had been involved in shaping eBay's test automation framework and is leading the development of similar quality initiatives at PayPal.

External Use

Using mindmaps Lightweight documentation for testing Florin Ursu

Using Mindmaps – lightweight documentation for testing

Using Mindmaps – lightweight documentation for testing

Documentation

A lot of it

NO Documentation!

Some

Documentation

What will I test?

What are my priorities?

What did I test?

What did I NOT test?

What are my

observations?

Risks?

Did I find any issues?

Documentation

Using Mindmaps – lightweight documentation for testing

Using Mindmaps – lightweight documentation for testing

What are the mindmaps?

• Mind mapping techniques have been around for a while, with origins going back several hundred years.

• Mind mapping in testing has become popular in recent years as it assists in lateral thinking and allows complex information to be presented in a simplified visual form, making important relationships visible. This can assist teams with key tasks including:

• Creating test plans;

• Designing test scenarios;

• Choosing effective test data.

Which tool did we adopt for Pong Studios?

•The tool I chose for mindmaps is MindMaple

• Cross platform: PC, Mac, iOS

• FREE (paid version also available with some non essential additions)

• Ability to export to Microsoft Office

• Accepts attachments and notes

• Visually integrate important task details

http://www.mindmaple.com/

• "Mind map": A mainly-hierarchical diagram used to organize information, ideas and understanding of a topic. It is a type of diagram that can aid visual thinking, learning, planning and creativity.

• A mind map is a diagram for representing tasks, words, concepts, or items linked to and arranged around a central concept or subject.

• A mind map uses a non-linear graphical layout that allows the user to build an intuitive framework around a central concept. A mind map can turn long list of monotonous information into a colorful, memorable and highly organized diagram that works in line with your brain's natural way of doing things.

Historical use

• “Visual mapping” can be traced back to 3rd Century CE by Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre’s Tree of Porphyry

• 692 CE - graphical representation of the outline of the Bible

• 1527 - Dante’s Divine Comedy published by Panganino & Alessandro Paganin

• 16th Century - “Treatise on the virtues of excellence, and how one may acquire them.” by d’Anguerrande

• 1664 – religious visual representation by John Bunyan, of Pilgrim’s Progress fame

• 1957 – Walt Disney produced a visual representation of his business model and relationships between organizational units

• 1974 – Tony Buzan on BBC television series “Use Your Head” introduced the term “Mind Map”

Mind Mapping in Software Testing

Where can you use mind mapping in software testing?

• Test Planning

• Test Strategy design

• Test Plan design

• Test Case Design

• Test Data planning

• ** ANYWHERE ** where thought, creativity, analysis, design, planning, etc. is required

• In our team, we use mindmaps for:

• Structuring test plans

• Presenting test plans to stakeholders

• Prioritizing tests

• Exporting to test cases

• Presenting test results and highlight:

• Completion percentage

• Level of confidence

• Risks

Intuitively we might build a mindmap like this

Standardizations adopted

• Format – Growth Direction – Right

• Style – Branch Shape – More – Rounded Elbow/Outside

Conventions adopted • Priorities

• Percentage of completion

• Resources

• Pass/Fail Test Cases

• Trickle Down quality indicators

I see what you did there…

Documentation

A lot of it

NO Documentation!

Some

Documentation

What will I test?

What are my priorities?

What did I test?

What did I NOT test?

What are my

observations?

Risks?

Did I find any issues?

Documentation

Example mindmaps

• Creating a mindmap – Mindmapple demo

• Initial mindmap

• Priorities

• Resources

• Testing results mindmap

• Priorities

• Resources

• Completion level

• Level of confidence

• Example mindmap

Group Exercise

Create the mindmap needed for testing a basic calculator to the level that it can be presented to the stakeholders.