LESSONS LEARNT LESSONS LEARNT IN MY TEN YEARS OF AGILE TESTING IN MY TEN YEARS OF AGILE TESTING

Baiju JosephDirector QE , Yahoo!

08 May 2012

AGENDAAGENDA

• Agile Testing• One size Doesn’t fit all• QE : Quality Enabler • Play like a Team• Continuous Deployment• Value added automation• Lightweight practices• Continuous Learning• Agile Testing in modern age

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.

“The job of tests, and the people that develop and run tests,is to prevent defects,not to find them”

Mary Poppendieck, Implementing Lean Software Development

AGILE TESTINGAGILE TESTING

NO SPECIALIST TESTER ROLE NO SPECIALIST TESTER ROLE …at some of our modern era companies.

"One of the things that annoys me is the whole “push quality upstream” movement. That’s like taking all your vitamins when you are a baby and then expecting a long healthy life. Obviously upfront debugging is good, but quality is an ongoing endeavor. “

James Whittaker @ TestNewsOnline

PUSH QUALITY UPSTREAM MOVEMENTPUSH QUALITY UPSTREAM MOVEMENT

Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsFine tune & iterate based on type of product , your team…

ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALLONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL

• Enable agile team to move fast to deliver good quality , high customer value code

• Help to prevent defects• Light weight Tools ,

Automation frameworks for team

• Story test automation

QE : QUALITY ENABLERQE : QUALITY ENABLER

quality is everybody's responsibilityquality is everybody's responsibility

Play like a Team

CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENTCONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT

The key to fixing problems quickly is finding them quickly. – (Fowler, 2006)

• Automation is not just a NUMBER in the coverage dashboard (ex: Unit Test Code Coverage)

• Understand the “WHY” of doing automation

• Automate tests• Which add value• Help team to build

confidence in their code

VALUE ADDED TEST AUTOMATIONVALUE ADDED TEST AUTOMATION

LIGHT WEIGHT PRACTICESLIGHT WEIGHT PRACTICES

• Mind Maps for test case brainstroming• Orthogonal Array Test Strategy• Big visible charts …run scrum team like an

aquarium

CONTINUOUS LEARNINGCONTINUOUS LEARNING

It's ultimately an answer to the question How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?

• Retrospective• A/B Testing aka

Bucket Testing• Root Cause Analysis• Continuous

Integration

• Polish tech stack knowledge (cloud , mobile etc…)

• Tool building skills • Fine tune our mindset

AGILE TESTING IN MODERN ERAAGILE TESTING IN MODERN ERA

quality is everybody's responsibilityquality is everybody's responsibility