agile testing: whole team approach
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Agile Testing
Whole-Team Approach
Standing survey
Stand up if you’d say yes to these questions... Don’t be shy :)
Let’s Play Domino!REQUIREMENT
1. Build a structure that is at least 4 horizontally standing domino blocks high.
2. Use all your blocks
3. Once you’re done with each round, write your time in the flipchart sheet and proceed to the next round
Let’s Play Domino!ROLES: In your teams, assign:
- 2 “testers”
- 1 timekeeper
- Everyone else are “builders”
Round # Time to “DONE”
1
2
3
Agile Manifesto
Agile mindset that should annihilate the older ones
TESTING
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Testing throughout At the end
Preventing bugs Finding bugs
Testing understanding Checking functionality
Building the best system Breaking the system
Team responsibility Tester responsibility
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Tips and Tricks
Some practices you can get started w ith right aw ay
Questioning
* during team planning, start with “WHY?”
* what ‘success’ looks like?
* clarify assumptions
Credit: https://pixabay.com/en/questions-puzzle-who-what-how-why-1328347/
Credit: BJ Edward Taduran and iEventify Team
Flows and Wireframes
* visualize “shared understanding” with entire team
* draw up system relationships & interactions
Credit:Software Testing PH Meetup @ Venturespace / Titan Tech
Collaborative Mindmapping
* brainstorm and design tests as a team
* visualize it with mind maps or post-its
* focus on risks
Credit: Ecal Team @ Oxygen Ventures Australia
Desk Checking
* dev to demo in his local
* check it against acceptance criteria
* soft-log the feedback
Credit: Jon Bach, “The Freedom Scale”
Exploratory Testing
* don’t pre-design tests as if everything is certain
* reduce cost of documentation to absolute minimum
Credit: http://blog.agilistic.nl/8-useful-strategies-for-splitting-large-user-stories-and-a-cheatsheet/
Per-Item Testing
* make tasks as small as possible, then ‘test early and often’
* get rid of “environment ownership”
Next steps
What you should do from today (rather than sharing Facebook hoax or fake new s site)
Credit: Five Monkeys uploaded by Goran Sijak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-PvBo75PDo
ResourcesBooks - “More Agile Testing”, “Exploratory Testing”, Growing Agile book series Blogs & Tweets - Michael Bolton, James Bach, Gojko Adzic, Ian Pestelos :)
Meetups - Agile Philippines and Software Testing Philippines group in Facebook
