Agile Testing XBOSoft Jared Richardson Phil Lew
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The document outlines a webinar by xbosoft focused on agile testing, detailing the agenda which includes discussions on agile development trends, testing methodologies within agile, implementation of Scrum, and agile test metrics. It emphasizes the importance of team collaboration, risk management, and the evolving role of testers in agile environments. The session features speakers Jared Richardson and Phil Lew, with a Q&A segment addressing audience inquiries.
Agile Testing XBOSoft Jared Richardson Phil Lew
- 1. XBOSoft Agile Testing Webinar
- 2. XBOSoft info • Founded in 2006 • Dedicated to software quality • Software QA consulting • Software testing services • Offices in San Francisco and Amsterdam
- 3. Housekeeping • Everyone except the speakers is muted • Questions via the gotowebinar control on the right side of your screen • Questions can be asked throughout the webinar, and we’ll try to fit them in • Also, general Q and A at the end of the webinar
- 4. Speakers Jared Richardson & Phil Lew
- 5. Agenda: • Agile development trends • How to test 'agile' • How to implement scrum • Typical scrum testing bottlenecks • How to solve them • Testing agile requirements • Agile test metrics • By popular demand: • Agile test automation • Agile performance Testing • Q and A
- 7. What Flavor?
- 8. What is Agile? Agile technical versus management implementation • XP is a type of technical implementation • Scrum is a type of management implementation Agile development trends • Increasing implementation • Common problems and issues
- 9. How to Test ‘Agile’
- 11. Agile QA - Testing Realities • Less formal preparation • More uncertainty-shifting to team needs • Convergence of dev and test role • Higher integration with development • Increased communication • Increased span of influence for QA • Requirements • Code reviews
- 12. Learn to live with risk…
- 13. …and work as a team.
- 14. Agile Testing Process • Test planning and test estimation • Unit, integration and system testing • Risk, test strategies • Tools • Requirements • Continuous integration
- 15. Not in the same location
- 16. Distributed Agile Testing Ideally everyone works from the same location. In reality people on the same team will be working from different locations and time zones.
- 17. Distributed Agile Testing • Collaborative culture • Communication • Periodic face to face meetings • Tools
- 18. “Difficult for some testers to adapt to agile” - Shawn, project manager XBOSoft, discussing an agile transition he is working on.
- 19. “Role change: less testing, more coaching. Testers become ‘test coaches’ or ‘quality directors’ to make sure the team is doing sufficient testing.” -Huib Schoots, huibschoots.nl
- 20. Role of a Tester • Characteristics of an agile tester • Differences between an agile tester and a traditional tester?
- 22. Test Documentation • Agile testing documentation • Living documentation • Tool integration
- 23. How to Implement Scrum
- 24. Keys to Agile – Scrum Implementation • Scrum is one management method for implementing agile. • Other methods include Kanban • Key do’s and don’ts when implementing either
- 25. Cooperate
- 28. No Requirements?
- 29. Requirements Agile’s low documentation does not mean NO documentation or NO requirements. How to balance these philosophies?
- 31. Metrics • Typical testing metrics • What metrics have particular value and usage in agile?
- 33. Agile Automation & Performance testing • Automation • Performance • Tools
- 34. Q&A
- 35. Questions and Answers • We’ve discussed up to now: • Agile development trends • How to test 'agile' • How to implement scrum • Testing agile requirements • Agile test metrics • Tools
- 36. @jaredrichardson www.AgileArtisans.com @XBOSoft www.xbosoft.com
- 37. Thanks