Bob Galen. Bob began as a developer, then moved to Project Management and Leadership, then Testing.

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2 Bob Galen Mr. Galen has 30 years of experience with various lifecycles including waterfall variants, RUP, Agile, and Chaos! He has worked in industry domains including SaaS, Medical, Financial Services, Computer & Storage Systems, ecommerce, and Telecommunications. Bob began as a developer, then moved to Project Management and Leadership, then Testing. He has leveraged pieces of Scrum in late 90 s; before agile was Agile. This included Lucent in using Extreme Programming, and using Scrum since CSM, CSP CSC, CSPO Mr. Galen is currently an independent Agile Coach at his company - RGCG, LLC, and is one of 50 Certified Scrum Coaches worldwide. Bob is based in North Carolina, USA.

3 Mary Thorn A VP of QA and Agile Coach at Deutsche Bank Global Technologies in Cary, North Carolina, Mary Thorn has a broad testing background that spans automation, data warehouses, and web-based systems in a wide variety of technologies and testing techniques. During her more than fifteen years of experience in healthcare, HR, agriculture, and SaaS-based products, Mary has held manager and contributor level positions in software development organizations. She has a strong interest in agile testing methodologies and direct experience leading agile teams through Scrum adoption & beyond.

4 Agile is

5 Questions? tweetchat.com /rooms/ a3dawn

6 3 Pillars of Agile Quality

7 Automation Testing Cross Functional Team Practices

8 3 Pillars of Agile Quality Development & Test Automation Pyramid-based Strategy: (Unit + Cucumber + Selenium) Continuous Integration Attack legacy technical debt in the Backlog Visual Feedback Dashboards Actively practice ATDD and BDD Software Testing Risk-based testing: Functional & Non- Functional Test Release & Sprint levels Exploratory Testing Standards checklists, templates, repositories Balanced across manual, exploratory & automation Agile-centric Metrics Cross-Functional Team Practices Team-based Pairing Stop-the-Line Code Reviews & Standards Active Done-Ness Aggressive Refactoring User Stories 3 Amigo based Conversations Building the Right Solutions Copyright 2013 RGCG, LLC 8

9 3 Pillars of Agile Quality Development & Test Automation Pyramid-based Strategy: (Unit + Cucumber + Selenium) Continuous Integration Attack legacy technical debt in the Backlog Visual Feedback Dashboards Actively practice ATDD and BDD A central part of agile adoption is focusing on CI, 3-tiered automation development, and Dashboards to begin incrementally building coverage for faster feedback on changes. In the interim, Hardening or Stabilization Sprints and having a risk-based Release Train concept help It s important that Test or QA not own the tooling or all of the automation efforts. The strategy can come from Test, but the automation development is best left to the team. Mature teams invest in automation as part of Done-ness and continually on their backlogs Copyright 2013 RGCG, LLC 9

10 3 Pillars of Agile Quality Software Testing Risk-based testing: Functional & Non- Functional Test Release & Sprint levels Exploratory Testing Standards checklists, templates, repositories Balanced across manual, exploratory & automation Agile-centric Metrics Copyright 2013 RGCG, LLC Exploratory Testing (Charter / Session based and paired) can be an incredibly effective way to establish a whole-team, collaborative view towards quality and testing. It also emerges new tests. Leverage plans as a whole-team collaboration mechanism and do plan. Do not measure testing or tester progress; instead, measure throughput, output, sprint outcomes, and done-ness escapes at a team level. You need a balanced test team; not everyone needs to be able to program. But everyone needs to be skilled testers. Agile testing is a Risk-Based play in every Sprint and across a release sequence. Don t forget your techniques! 10

11 3 Pillars of Agile Quality Cross-Functional Team Practices Team-based Pairing Stop-the-Line Code Reviews & Standards Active Done-Ness Aggressive Refactoring User Stories 3 Amigo based Conversations Building the Right Solutions Copyright 2013 RGCG, LLC One of the hardest areas to get right culturally. It needs leadership alignment from Quality/Testing to Product to Development and a consistent voice of whole-team approaches. This is where LEAN lives, where whole-team collaboration happens, where professionalism and craftsmanship are held dear. I like the view of testers becoming the VOC, champions of quality, and consistent questioners of what is being build. Are we solving the right problems as simply as possible. 11 MMF, MVP, MMP, etc. And yes Virginia, there ARE standards and consistency!

12 Organizational Quality Strategies Continuously communicate your unified Vision Your strategy must be aligned/shared across: Development, Quality/Testing, and Product Keep working your strategy across the pillars Don t get stuck with too narrow a focus (easy road) Make your strategy visible (Information Radiators) Show progress (Ex: burn up of test automation coverage across tiers) Visualize organizational impediments to your Agile Quality strategies Attack them! Quarterly read-outs on progress, plans and adjustments Listen to your teams Celebrate successes! Copyright 2013 RGCG, LLC 12

13 Outline Myths & Realities Introduction 1. Transforming your Team 2. Automation 3. Developers & Automation 4. Developers Testing 5. Test Planning & Scripts 6. Testing within the Sprint 7. Exploratory Testing 8. Role of Testers 9. Developer to Tester Workflow 10. Managing Agile Testers 11. Test Metrics 12. Retrospectives The Secret Sauce 13. Continuous Improvement 14. The Customer 15. Agile Requirements The Product Backlog Copyright 2013 RGCG, LLC 13

14 Agile Test Automation Pyramid Mike Cohn; Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory Copyright 2013 RGCG, LLC 14

15 Bob Galen Principal Consultant, RGalen Consulting Group, L.L.C. Contact Info Experience-driven agile focused training, coaching & consulting Contact: (919) Blogs Project Times - BA Times - Podcast on all things agile - Copyright 2013 RGCG, LLC 15

16 Mary Thorn

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