Agile Testing and the Role of the Agile Tester

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Agile Testing Success Factors

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Source: http://www.agiletester.ca/

Agile Testing Success Factors

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Source: http://www.agiletester.ca/

Traditional Approach Waterfall

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Agile Approach

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Developer works with QA/QC to get full functional understanding of the Enhancement/feature or issue being worked on. Both ensure testing on development server. Avoid Big bang testing just before the release. Track testing : Travis will track testing of feature and also

Scrum Overview

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Testing Dashboard
Area Effort Assessm Covera Commen ge ent ts

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Source: http://www.satisfice.com/rst.pdf

Agile Testing Challenges

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Team may not value testers Testers may not value team Unclear role of testers on team Testing is often squeezed as deadlines approach Developers and testers are often in different operational silos Team may not have the skills or domain expertise to develop/test effectively

Agile Testing Approach

Testers are first class citizens on agile teams and part of the whole team supporting customers, business stakeholders, developers and other team members Testers support quality infusion through entire team and product cycle Test tasks and stories are planned and executed like development tasks and stories Automate where possible and use session5/4/12 based testing for exploratory testing

Tester Activities
Supports Development

Product Owner Collaboratio n

Customer Facing

Customer Collaborati on
Critiques Product

Q 2 Q 1

Q 3 Q 4

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Technology Facing

IT Collaborati on

Agile Testing Iterations

Q3, Q4: Product Testing Q1: Testing & Collaborati on Q2: Planning & Test Ideas

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Previous Iteration
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Current Iteration

Next Iteration

Agile Testing Success Factors

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Agile Testing Success Factors

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Source: http://www.agiletester.ca/

Agile Testing Reading List

Agile Project Management Jim Highsmith; 2004 Lean Software Development Mary & Tom Poppendieck; 2003 Extreme Programming Explained 2nd Edition Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres; 2004
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