1. System testing in an agile environment Mary Jiang May 2009

2. Overview

• Traditional System Testing vs. Agile System Testing

• System Testing Model

• Examples in current project

• Best Practice & Challenge

3. System Testing

• System Testing: Testing the whole system

4. What is current reality?

• How can we implement system testing strategy?

5. System Testing Model in Perficient China

6. Sprint 0

• High Level Test Planning

• Initial Test Environment

• Identifying Testers

• Training

• Identify test requirement

• Draft estimation

7. Sprint 1 Sprint N

• Independent Parallel Testing

8. Clean Up Sprint

• End of lifecycle testing before production

• Including functional testing and non-functional testing

• Focus on covering more testing than previous iterations

• Do exploratory testing if possible

9. Example 1 in current project

10. Example 2 in current project

11. Defect Management

• More focus on high priority work items

• Reprioritize the defects often happened

• Snapshot for defect communication is more efficient

12. Test Report

• Shortening Feedback Loops

• • Daily Status Update

• • WIKI

• Lightweight Documentation

• • Use lightweight styles/tools (Excel)

• • Leverage one document for multi-purpose

• Identify critical bugs, missing features and opportunity to improve

13. Testers

• Whole team and Independent test team

• Some critical factors for testing professionals:

• • Become generalizing specialists.

• • Be flexible.

• • Be prepared to work closely with developers.

• • Be flexible. This is worth repeating. ;-)

• • Focus on value-added activities. Not bureaucracy.

• • Be flexible. This is really important.

14. Challenge

• Build up an independent test team that collaborating with developers

• Dependencies for independent testing

• Continuous Independent Parallel Testing

• Find the balance point between testing for implicit expectation and making up requirements as you go

15. Q&A Thank you for listening