Seven Key Factors for Agile Testing Success

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1 Seven Key Factors for Agile Testing Success NDC 2010 Lisa Crispin With Material from Janet Gregory 1

2 Introduction Tester on agile teams since 2000 Current team: Has delighted customers Delivers value to production every 2 weeks Drives development with tests, examples 100% regression test automation 2

3 Your Agile Experience How about you? How many testers/qa professionals? How many on agile teams? How many in transition? How many planning a transition? How many on more traditional teams? Agile testing works on those, too. Managers, testers, developers...? 3

4 Takeaways Keys to agile testing success Overcoming barriers Practical steps you can take today Even on non-agile team 4

5 Key Success Factors Mindmap Look at the Big Picture Use the Whole Team Approach Collaborate with Customer Key Success Factors Adopt an Agile Testing Mindset Automate Regression Testing Build a Foundation of Core Agile Practices Provide and Obtain Feedback

6 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 6

7 Who s On Your Team? Separate test team? How could you integrate more? How could you collaborate more with customers? Does your team have all the roles, skills needed? 7

8 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 8

9 What Do You Do To Improve? Professional development Team, process improvement How can you be more proactive? 9

10 Automate Regression Testing Drive development with tests Design for testability Team effort Team chooses tools Start simple 10

11 Regression Test Automation Issues? Make it a team problem to solve Get over hump of pain Unit tests have best ROI GUI smoke tests option for legacy code But choose tool carefully Effort Time 11

12 Test Automation Pyramid 12

13 Provide and Obtain Feedback Core agile value Team uses feedback to improve Testers are expert feedback providers Feedback lets team make course corrections 13

14 Focusing on Feedback Big Visible Charts Retrospectives test results from build process Take advantage of short iterations Discoveries during exploratory testing Collaboration with users, customers 14

15 Foundation of Core Practices Continuous integration Frequent and fast feedback Coding and testing one process Test environments Manage technical debt Work incrementally Synergy 15

16 Implementing Core Practices Self-organizing team Plan stories/tasks to build infrastructure Refactoring iterations Baby steps address one thing at a time 16

17 Collaborate with Customers Elicit examples Whiteboard discussions Adapt for distributed teams Power of Three 17

18 Getting Customers on Board Build trust Learn their jobs Ask for concrete examples, scenarios How will you use this? What s the worst that can happen? Testers can help developers, customers communicate But don t get in the way 18

19 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 19

20 Agile Testing Quadrants 20

21 Whole Team Mindset Change Automate Regression Tests Core Agile Practices Customer Collaboration Provide Feedback Big Picture View 21

22 Questions? 22

23 Now Available Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams By Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory Copyright : Lisa Crispin

24 Bridging the Communication Gap Specification By Example and Acceptance Testing Gojko Adzic 24 Copyright Copyright 2008 Janet 2010: Gregory, Lisa Crispin DragonFire

25 All Proceeds to Charity! Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software Edited by Tim Riley, Adam Goucher Includes chapter by yours truly Copyright : Lisa Crispin

26 Some Agile Testing Resources lisacrispin.com janetgregory.ca exampler.com testobsessed.com testingreflections.com dhemery.com 26