BDD and QA - Make Yourself More Valuable
- 1. Waiter to Assistant Cook aka QA to Co-Developer , Co-Product Manager
- 2. 14 years of Testing Journey ● Manual Tester ● Automation Tester ● Manual Testing Lead ● SDET ● BDD addict and preacher ( at present )
- 3. What I did , loved , hated ● Indian Software Industry from my eyes ● Role of QA in it ● Why QA is NOT treated at par with Developer , Product Manager ?
- 4. QA Complaints ● Are you QA engineer by choice or compulsion ? ● Do you like your job ? ● Do you like your salary ? ● Do you want to be in QA whole life ?
- 5. Questions to QA ● How can you be of more value in your project ? ● Do you know coding ? ● Do you know automation ?
- 6. Questions about Automation ● What kind of automation you do ? ● UI , Unit , API ? ● Which one is best in terms of testing coverage ?
- 7. Your project life cycle ● What kind of SDLC do you follow ? ● What is difference between Water fall , Agile , Scrum etc ● What is TDD , BDD ?
- 8. Achieving BDD ● How to shift to BDD from existing SDLC ? ● Challenges ● Changing behavior of Developer and PM to achieve success in BDD
- 9. … continue ● Example Mapping ● 3 Amigos Session ● Acceptance Testing – Who & How
- 10. BDD vs Existing Model ● NON BDD Coding ( adding bugs ) → testing → prioritization → Bug fixing and adding new -> repeat cycle ● BDD Discuss , clarify , agree → automated tests -> Coding to make tests pass ( lesser Bugs ) → Fix tests → Coding → repeat
- 11. Cucumber Tool ● What is it ? ● How is it used along with Selenium , Appium , API testing ? ● Contribute , learn , grow
- 12. …. continue ● Is it Automation Tool ? ● Is it replaces existing automation tools ? ● Does it have steep learning curve ?
- 13. Demo Project ( Git repo ) ● Serenity Framework ● Selenium + Java ● Cucumber
- 14. … continue ● Scenarios ● Test Cases vs Scenarios ● Tips ● Good practices
- 15. My Experiences with BDD ● Am I comfortable with BDD now ? ● Challenges being faced ? ● What I can do better ?