Testing In Agile
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The document discusses testing in Agile development, focusing on various testing types, levels, and their purposes. It emphasizes the importance of automated testing, test-first approaches, and the evolving role of testers in Agile environments. Key aspects include collaboration, adapting to changing specifications, and ensuring 'potentially shippable' functionality at the end of each iteration.
Testing In Agile
- 1. Testing in Agile Ari Tanninen Agile Dinner Helsinki December 1st 2009 Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 2. Agenda Introductions Motivation Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 3. Assumptions • Understanding of software development • Familiarity of agile • Basic testing know-how Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 4. My Biases • Java developer • Object-orientation • Consulting Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 5. Everything About Testing Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 6. Functional testing... • Black box • White box • Grey box • Regression • Smoke • User Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 7. Levels of testing... • Unit • Module • Component • Integration • System • System integration Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 8. More testing! • Performance, scalability, stability, stress • Destructive • Usability • Security • Exploratory • Monkey Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 9. Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 10. Back to Basics Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 11. Purposes of Testing • Product validation (the right product?) • Support development (built right?) • User / Technology • System / Code Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 12. Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Source: Brian Marick, Mary Poppendieck, additions by me http://www.exampler.com/old-blog/2003/08/21/#agile-testing-project-1 http://stopandfix.blogspot.com/2009/04/all-about-testing.html
- 13. Agile Needs from Testing Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 14. Waterfall Planning Analysis Design Coding Testing Deploying Done! Risk analysis Test planning Test case design Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 15. Risk analysis Agile Test planning Risk analysis Test case design Test planning Test case design Planning Analysis Design Coding Testing Deploying Done! Planning Analysis Design Coding Testing Deploying Done! Planning Analysis Design Coding Testing Deploying Done! Planning Analysis Design Coding Testing Deploying Done! Risk analysis Test planning Test case design Definition of done: tested Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 16. Potentially shippable functionality at the end of every iteration? Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 17. Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Source: Brian Marick, Mary Poppendieck, additions by me http://www.exampler.com/old-blog/2003/08/21/#agile-testing-project-1 http://stopandfix.blogspot.com/2009/04/all-about-testing.html
- 18. The Problem Features to be tested 1 2 3 4 Iteration Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 19. Test Automation Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 20. Automated testing? Automated test case execution! Who designs and automates the test cases? Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 21. Agile Development Up-front Design must design evolve impossible Iterative and Regression Test incremental Refactoring testing automation development Features Test-first added, Changing development changed, codebase removed Tests, too! Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 22. The Key to Test Automation Testing tools? Software development http://stopandfix.blogspot.com/2009/03/key-to-test-automation.html Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 23. Tests are software, too • Evolution • Architecture & design • Iterative & incremental development • Readability (➙DSL) Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 24. Why test-first? • Efficient, least boring way to regression • Minimalism (“do only what is needed”) • “Done” • Design • Collaboration Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 25. Unit Test Driven Development Acceptance Test Driven Development Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 26. Challenges to Testing • Changing spec, code, and tests • “Potentially shippable” after every iteration • Usability & property testing • Tester’s role Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 27. Tester’s Role Redefined • Acceptance tests, user view of system • Business value focus, PO liaison • Exploratory testing & the difficult stuff • Thinking, contributing team member • Learn programming, train developers Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 28. Keys to Agile Testing • Developer testing • Evolving testing tools ➙ programming • Lazy & adaptive mindset • Collaboration Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 29. Beer. Wednesday, December 2, 2009