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The Master Test Plan
Why do people want test plans?
Test Management
Eddy Bruin
How to please management about how testing is done
Ray Oei
Impressive looking index. Follow all ‘conventions’.
Put in nonsense to check if someone actually read it
Why do you not want a test plan?
What do you want to communicate
about your testing?
The Agile manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
The 7 Basic Principles of the Context-Driven School
1.The value of any practice depends on its context.
2.There are good practices in context, but there are no best practices.
3.People, working together, are the most important part of any project’s context.
4.Projects unfold over time in ways that are often not predictable.
5.The product is a solution. If the problem isn’t solved, the product doesn’t work.
6.Good software testing is a challenging intellectual process.
7.Only through judgment and skill, exercised cooperatively throughout the entire project, are we able to do the right things at the right times to effectively test our products.
Test management Treatments
Placebo
Fake, but it will please (temporaraly)
Trojan Horse Virus
A cure in disguise
Antibiotics
A complete treatment
Utilize agile ‘standard’ practices
Utilize agile ‘standard’ practices
TMap style testplan with CDT/RST/HTSM content
TMap style testplan with CDT/RST/HTSM content
Talk the old language, do something new
Talk the old language, do something new
Chance of failure
Imp
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Some principles
• Let the team own the test management• Quality assistance• Have a lightweight test framework• Communicate the framework to teams and stakeholders• Show them the options, let the teams choose• Show transparency and show results• Scientific method
http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/im-an-agile-test-managerdo-i-really-exist-presentation
Session Based Test ManagementBe Transparent
Session Based Test ManagementBe Transparent
•Make stakeholders aware they influence quality
•Test sessions (SBTM)
•Smiley board on quality of features
•Involve more people in testing•Bug hunts
•User sessions
•Tell the test story
Slack management
Example of change
Test management overview
Features
All acceptance criteria checked
(or not!)
Epics Links to documentation
Notes
Warning! Open issues
Some practices
• Mindmaps• Slack management• Test ideas• Risk analyses
• Nightmare headline game• Product risk analyses
• Create a learning culture• Walk in sessions• Gather tester and let them present what they did and want to do
• Session Based Test Management• Be transparent
Hey, we just met youAnd this is crazy
So here’s our twitter So tweet us maybe?!
@eddybruin
Big thanks to …
@rayoei