Lisa  Crispin  Copyright  2014  

Co-­‐author  of  Agile  Tes)ng:  A  Prac)cal  Guide  for  Testers  and  Agile  Teams,    Addison-­‐Wesley  2009  (and  now  working  on  More  Agile  Tes)ng  to  be  published  2014)  

CodeMash  2014      

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They  want  to  “bake  quality  in”  

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Copyright  2014  Lisa  Crispin,  Janet  Gregory.  

How  do  they  mi,gate  risk?  

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User  Story  

Expand  Tests  

High  level  AT  

Auto-­‐  mate  tests  

Code  &  

Execute  tests  

Explore    

Exploratory  TesWng  

Accept  Story  

Fix  defects  

Explore  examples  

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Source:  Bob  Mar)n,  h=p://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-­‐bob/2012/08/13/the-­‐clean-­‐architecture.html  

Source:  Gojko  Adzic,  StarEast  2011  keynote  

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Eg.  “Group  Hugs”  (aka  bug  bashes,  …)  

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We can communicate so much better with a tester who understands programming concepts�

How can devs learn enough about testing?�

Let’s look at some ideas�

MulW-­‐  discipline  skills  Expert  /  Discipline  skills  

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T-­‐shaped  Skill-­‐set  

Sources:  Rob  Lambert  and  Adam  P.  Knight  

"An individual with a deep level of knowledge in at least one domain and a collaborative understanding of at least one other."

Basics  

Advanced  

Meta  

Source:  Ma`  Barcomb  

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•  What  tesWng  skills  do  devs  need?  How  can  they  learn?  

•  Form  groups  of  5  –  6  people,  around  big  sheet  of  paper  

•  Write  ideas  on  paper  (directly  or  on  sWckies)  

•  Which  ones  would  you  try  on  your  team?  

Your  stories?      

Agile  Tes)ng:  A  Prac)cal  Guide  for  Testers  and  Agile  Teams  www.agiletester.ca  

 

More  Agile  Tes)ng    

Coming  July  2014  ....  

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