Agile Testing Role of Testers

Agile Testing and Testers Role in Agile
Development
3rd ATA Chapter Meet
Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing AllianceConfidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance
31st May 2014

 Steering Committee Member, Agile Testing Alliance
 Co-Author of a book on Selenium
 Certified Trainer Agile Testing - ATA,Qualified Project
Management Professional (QPMP), Six Sigma Black Belt,
ISTQB certified foundation and advanced level Tester, Sun
Certified Java Programmer, Presenter in International
conferences on Project Management, Quality and Testing
 19+ years of IT Industry experience with:
 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd, India, NSE.IT (National Stock Exchange, India)
 Celox Networks, USA, Netscout Systems, USA
 BE CSE, MBA Finance from UMASS Lowell.
Principal Consultant
Aditya Garg
 Steering Committee Member, Agile Testing Alliance
 Co-Author of a book on Selenium
 Certified Trainer Agile Testing - ATA,Qualified Project
Management Professional (QPMP), Six Sigma Black Belt,
ISTQB certified foundation and advanced level Tester, Sun
Certified Java Programmer, Presenter in International
conferences on Project Management, Quality and Testing
 19+ years of IT Industry experience with:
 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd, India, NSE.IT (National Stock Exchange, India)
 Celox Networks, USA, Netscout Systems, USA
 BE CSE, MBA Finance from UMASS Lowell.
Aditya has been an automation test architect and principal consultant excelling in designing, strategizing and architecting manual and
automation testing solutions. His primary focus has been in the area of establishing and leading testing center of excellence and practices,
managing large IT projects, undertaking testing process studies using Six Sigma, CMMi and TMM models, proposing QA solutions,
performance engineering and architecture reviews, designing automation frameworks, exploring open source test automation
tools/frameworks and Business development
Aditya’s current research area is use of pair wise testing in agile projects specially in optimizing test automation regression packs build
around BDT with tools like Cucumber, Selenium and Capybara.

Agile Testing and Testers Role in Agile
Development

Agile Means ?

Agile is being responsive to CHANGE
•Fast
•Nimble
•Adaptable
•Flexible
Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing AllianceConfidential | Copyright © Agile Testing AllianceConfidential | Copyright © QA Agility Technologies
Agile is being responsive to CHANGE
•Fast
•Nimble
•Adaptable
•Flexible

Agile – iterative n incremental

Agile Projects
Reference: Mike Cohen: Mountain Goat Software

Is Agile Popular ?

Why is Agile getting popular ?

What is the frequency of releases for
Facebook ?

Agile helps manage the change better
Do we need to change ?
What happens if we don’t change ?
Agile helps manage the change better
Do we need to change ?
What happens if we don’t change ?

http://www.slate.co
m/blogs/future_ten
se/2013/08/23/sta
ck_ranking_steve_
ballmer_s_employ
ee_evaluation_sys
tem_and_microsof
t_s.html

What is the testers role in Agile ?

Reference: http://watirmelon.com/2013/05/07/do-you-even-need-a-
software-tester-on-your-agile-team/
QA and Testers role - Perceptions

QA and Testers role in Agile -
Perceptions
• No need of specialized Testing folks
• Developers themselves can do testing
• Traditional Testers do not adapt to the agile need and mindset
• US v/s THEM mentality
• Testers don’t know how to collaborate
• No need of specialized Testing folks
• Developers themselves can do testing
• Traditional Testers do not adapt to the agile need and mindset
• US v/s THEM mentality
• Testers don’t know how to collaborate

Reference: http://watirmelon.com/2013/05/07/do-you-even-need-a-software-
tester-on-your-agile-team/
QA and Testers role - Perceptions

Are testers going to go EXTINCT ?

What is this ?

Biggest Mistake

Biggest Mistake
We tend to like people who think like us. If we
agree with someone’s beliefs, we’re more
likely to be friends with them. While this
makes sense, it means that we
subconsciously begin to ignore or dismiss
anything that threatens our world views, since
we surround ourselves with people and
information that confirm what we already think.
We tend to like people who think like us. If we
agree with someone’s beliefs, we’re more
likely to be friends with them. While this
makes sense, it means that we
subconsciously begin to ignore or dismiss
anything that threatens our world views, since
we surround ourselves with people and
information that confirm what we already think.

Biggest Mistake
Confirmation bias is a more active form of the
same experience. It happens when we
proactively seek out information that confirms
our existing beliefs.
Confirmation bias is a more active form of the
same experience. It happens when we
proactively seek out information that confirms
our existing beliefs.

In all this there is another important
definition where the problem actually
starts showing up
• Velocity is the measure of
how many stories the team
typically completes during
an iteration
• Velocity is a unit of effort
– How many “story points” did
we get done last iteration
– Measure using “Yesterdays
Weather”
• Velocity is the measure of
how many stories the team
typically completes during
an iteration
• Velocity is a unit of effort
– How many “story points” did
we get done last iteration
– Measure using “Yesterdays
Weather”

Velocity over period of time
3
4
5
6

Are testers going to go EXTINCT ?
ABSOLUTELY NOT
In fact we have a HUGE Opportunity with us
ABSOLUTELY NOT
In fact we have a HUGE Opportunity with us
Around 300,000 certified ISTQB testers
More than 50,000 certified scrum (Agile) professionals.
And AGILE IS ALREADY Popular and getting accepted everywhere..

BUT - Do we (Testers) need to CHANGE ?

Change that we need to bring in
No “them and us”
Shorter timescales
Less documentation
Team player
Learn
Change that we need to bring in
No “them and us”
Shorter timescales
Less documentation
Team player
Learn

What is a test case ?

Acceptance
Deploy
Design
Sprint Dev Cycle
Execute
Build
|| Test Cycle
Sprint Start
Deploy/Accept
Acceptance
Deploy
Design
Sprint Dev Cycle
Execute
Build
|| Test Cycle
Sprint Start
Deploy/Accept
Acceptance
Deploy
Design
Sprint Dev Cycle
Execute
Build
|| Test Cycle
Sprint Start
Deploy/Accept
Acceptance
Deploy
Design
Sprint Dev Cycle
Execute
Build
|| Test Cycle
Sprint Start
Deploy/Accept

Lisa Crispin Book – on Agile Testing

#adigindia
in.linkedin.com/in/adigarg/
aditya.garg@agiletestingalliance.org
Thank you
#adigindia
in.linkedin.com/in/adigarg/
aditya.garg@agiletestingalliance.org

Agile Testing Role of Testers

Empfohlen

Empfohlen

Weitere ähnliche Inhalte

Was ist angesagt?

Was ist angesagt? (20)

Ähnlich wie Agile Testing Role of Testers

Ähnlich wie Agile Testing Role of Testers (20)

Kürzlich hochgeladen

Kürzlich hochgeladen (20)

Agile Testing Role of Testers