build your agile testing skill set
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Lisa Crispin Co-‐Author with Janet Gregory, Agile Tes)ng: A Prac)cal Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, and the upcoming
More Agile Tes)ng
• A bit of lecture and story-‐telling • Learning through exercises and discussions • Ac>on items: experiments to try!
With Janet Gregory: Agile Tes)ng 2009
More Agile Tes)ng Oct 2014
www.lisacrispin.com www.agiletester.ca
First agile team – 2000 Currently tester on Pivotal Tracker team
TwiOer: @lisacrispin Email: [email protected]
• more than “just” tes>ng code • an ac>vity -‐ not a phase
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Instead of ◦ We’re here to find bugs … or ensure requirements are met … or break the so[ware …
Think – How do we “bake quality in”?
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Can you think of some ways that you cross boundaries in how you work?
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Also DevOps, UX designers, others
Mul>-‐ discipline skills
Expert / Discipline skills
T-‐Shaped Skills
Copyright 2015: Lisa Crispin
Breadth of Skills
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Square-‐shaped Team
See links for more by Rob Lambert and Adam P. Knight
Idea from Marcelo Leite
• Listening • Informing construc>vely • Elici>ng shared understanding
• Programming concepts • High level architecture • IDEs, other tools • Database knowledge • Maintaining test environments • Domain knowledge
for tes>ng in agile? Discuss at your tables, be ready to share your list
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What skills are missing? Choose the top three for your table, be ready to share your list
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• For the top missing skills, what collabora>ve experiments can you think of?
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• Design at least two experiments you can try with your team to transfer tes>ng skills
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Challenge Yourself !
What experiments will you try back at work?
• Adzic, Gojko, Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with So@ware Products and Projects, 2012a hOp://impactmapping.org
• Adzic, Gojko, Specifica)on by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right So@ware, Manning, 2011
• Gärtner, Markus, ATDD By Example: A Prac)cal Guide to Acceptance Test-‐Driven Development, Addison-‐Wesley, 2012a
• Keogh, Liz, hOp://lunivore.com -‐ look for her posts on BDD, Real Op>ons • Lambert, Rob, "T-‐shaped Testers and Their Role In a Team", hOp://
thesocialtester.co.uk/t-‐shaped-‐testers-‐and-‐their-‐role-‐in-‐a-‐team/ , 2012 • Karten, Naomi, "Are You Listening?", hOp://www.agileconnec>on.com/ar>cle/are-‐
you-‐listening, Agile Connec>on, 2009 • Knight, Adam P., "T-‐shaped Tester, Square Shaped Team", hOp://
thesocialtester.co.uk/t-‐shaped-‐tester-‐square-‐shaped-‐team/, 2013 • Levison, Mark, "The Beginner's Mind -‐ An Approach to Listening", hOp://
www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/beginners_mind, InfoQ, 2008 • McMillan, Darren, "Mind Mapping 101", for Tes>ng: hOp://
www.beOertes>ng.co.uk/content/?p=956, 2011 • PaOon, Jeff, User Story Mapping, 2014 • Wynne, MaO and Aslak Hellesoy, The Cucumber Book: Behavior-‐Driven
Development for Testers and Developers, Pragma>c Programmers, 2012
Agile Tes)ng: A Prac)cal Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
By Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
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More Agile Tes)ng: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team By Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin www.agiletester.ca www.agiletester.com
lisacrispin.com email: [email protected]
TwiOer: @lisacrispin