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Ian Pestelos | linkedin.com/in/ianpestelos | ian@agility.ph
AGILE TESTING
“There is no place for a
manual tester in Scrum”
- Ian’s CSM Trainer, July 2011
IAN PESTELOS
Coaching Teams and Leaders on Agile, Design
Thinking, Software Quality, and Management 3.0
ian@agility.ph
GLOBAL
INVESTMENT
BANK
What’s up, doc?
○ What Works? Practices.
○ What Hurts? Challenges.
○ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
○ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
What’s up, doc?
➢ What Works? Practices.
○ What Hurts? Challenges.
○ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
○ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
Mindmapping
Mindmapping
Low-Fi Wireframing
Low-Fi Wireframing
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Desk Checking
Mindmapping
Low-Fi Wireframing
Story Slicing
Team Testing
Mindmapping
Low-Fi Wireframing
What’s up, doc?
✓ What Works? Practices.
➢ What Hurts? Challenges.
○ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
○ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
Limited insight on
business goals
and impact
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Structural constraints
(perceived or real)
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Learned Helplessness
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Practices
changed.
But yet we remain
fundamentally the same
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What’s up, doc?
✓ What Works? Practices.
✓ What Hurts? Challenges.
➢ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
○ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
OUTCOME
Over Output
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BEST PRINCIPLES
Over Best Practices
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USER’S STORY
Over User Stories
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What’s up, doc?
✓ What Works? Practices.
✓ What Hurts? Challenges.
✓ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
➢ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
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Experiment on
core principles
How might we... improve team ownership of quality?
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Dive deeper into
business context
What business goals and impact are we trying to achieve?
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Widen your
scope and influence
How might we extend our testing skills beyond software engineering?
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The most important bugs are
ones that never made it to
the bug tracking system
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Step back and do
test mentorship
and coaching
How might we broaden our options for growing others?
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Your agility in testing are judged not just by tests you
covered or bugs you found, but more importantly
by the type of questions you raise &
by the quality of info you provide
to meet business outcomes
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Steps Forward
● Experiment on core principles
● Dive deeper into business contexts
● Widen your scope and influence
● Step back and do test mentorship and
coaching
Fuck it, just do it.
IAN PESTELOS
Coaching Teams and Leaders on Agile, Design
Thinking, Software Quality, and Management 3.0
ian@agility.ph
Private Workshop: Testing Agility 101
Dec 2-3, 2017; Details TBA
Speaking: Agile Testing Day MNL
Dec. 6, 2017 | Makati
Speaking: Internal QA Conference
Jan. 17, 2018 | Makati
Public Workshop: Management 3.0
Feb. 1-2, 2018; http://bit.ly/m30-manila
Public Workshop: Testing Agility 101
Feb. 2018; Details TBA
Public Workshop: ICP Agile Testing
2018; Details TBA

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