How to brew a tasty agile test strategy
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The document discusses creating an agile test strategy using analogies to cooking and brewing. It provides examples of how concepts in agile testing map to steps in cooking, such as defining done equating to knowing when a meal is finished. The strategy involves understanding your context like customer needs, then learning testing fundamentals before creating a risk-based approach and categorization of test types tailored to your team. Automation is suggested where possible to reduce manual work and keep the team happy.
How to brew a tasty agile test strategy
- 1. How to Brew a Tasty Agile Test Strategy? Agile Development/Testing and Brewing/Kitchen Analogies Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 2. Nice Cookbooks Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 3. In our agile pantry.. contains many... • books • ingredients • tools • cookbooks • restaurants • styles www.flickr.com/photos/52192754@N00/220946716/ Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 4. Why Cooking/Brewing Analogy? • Examples can help • Analogies from a different (known) context can help • It’s fun Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 5. Analogy #1: The Definition of Done (DoD) in a Kitchen Assume a professional cook in a restaurant kitchen is asked to create a nice meal for a customer. NO When it’s DONE? www.flickr.com/photos/28549294@N05/4273275734 Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 6. Analogy #1: The Definition of Done (DoD) in a Kitchen Assume a professional cook in a restaurant kitchen is asked to create a nice meal for a customer. YES When it’s DONE? http://www.flickr.com/photos/28549294@N05/4273275734/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 7. What we find in a cookbook • Ingredients • Techniques • Tools • Mindset • Skills • Recipes Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 8. What we find in a cookbook This talk.... • Ingredients (META-)Recipes to create • Techniques a Test Strategy p les am en • Tools ex ch e kit om u r s o • Mindset ith m w ro f • Skills recipe recipe • Recipes Spikes into details Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 9. La Cuisine • mobile.de - e-Commerce, selling vehicles • belongs to eBay Classifieds Group • Marketplaces France, Italy, Poland and Romania Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 10. Our Agile Transition •first Scrum pilot project 3.5 years ago •3 years Scrum with multiple teams - 70+ people - 6+ teams, 2 distributed teams - parallel development on same product •1.5 million LoC •1 year Kanban for maintenance Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 11. Votré chef de cusine • programming background (20 years) • Agile from 2004, Scrum Master • my current role: Team Lead “Engineering Support Group” supporting agile project teams with... - Release Management - Test Automation tic lis - Build Management ho - Tools - Configuration Management Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 12. What I mean by “Agile Test Strategy”? • What to test? What not to test? • Which kinds of tests? - Test categories / taxonomy - Tools • When to test (what)? • How to introduce/improve? Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 13. The Recipe • Which kind of restaurant? • Get to know your craft • Try to use ... adapt & learn Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 14. Step 1: What kind of restaurant? - Who are your clients? - Your style? Quality is a business requirement - Competitors, market? - Your team Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 15. Step 2: Get to know your craft... • Ingredients • Tools • Techniques • Principles Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 16. Principle: Visibility www.flickr.com/photos/shannonsturgis/4274202367 Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 17. Principle: Care about your tools Sharpen your knifes. www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/3641653927 Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 18. Principle: Care about your tools Sharpen your knifes. www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/3641653927 Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 19. Principle: Whole team approach •... not very kitchen-like? Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 20. Question: Use instant ingredients or not? www.flickr.com/photos/vegetarian/2292620706 Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 21. Example from our kitchen: Principles • Early feedback • From risk to test strategy • Test as low as possible Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 22. Recipe: From Risk to Test Criteria Test Automation ROI Radar Chart • Incident prio Incident prio What is the prio of a • Change frequency possible incident? • Bug density • Overhead for manual Overhead of high Bug density tests manual test high How many bugs in the past? high • Complexity of requirements • Maintenance overhead Change frequency for automated tests Maintenance low often overhead for high How many changes in the • Known domain future? automated tests Complexity How complicated is the feature? Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 23. Ingedients - Test Categorization / Taxonomy Overhead / Complexity . Source: Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 24. Ingedients - Test Categorization / Taxonomy . Source: Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 25. Recipe: The “Tetris Principle” - Test as low as possible Story: As a customer I can contact the seller of an interesting ad. Risk/aspect 1 Risk/aspect Risk/aspect: Risk/aspect: Mail is not sent Layout of mail Wrong mail Javascript problem due to config is crap language in contact form problems Story Test / UI Story Test / UI (Integration) (Browser) Story test below UI automated tests no automated tests Manual tests Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 26. Analogy #2: QA or When do you flip a pancake? Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin thecleancoder.blogspot.com/2010/08/ qa-or-when-do-you-flip-pancake.html www.flickr.com/ /mrlerone/106039369/ photos Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 27. Test Automation Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 28. Goal: A happy kitchen crew www.flickr.com/photos/fractalv/1341923133 Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW
- 29. Thanks for your attention. Alex Schwartz Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010 KW