advanced topics in agile tsting: focus on automation

Advanced Topics: Focus on Automa3on

Quality in Agile 2015 Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory

Agile Tes)ng: A Prac)cal Guide for Testers and Agile Teams More Agile Tes)ng: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

A liAle about us

Janet First agile team: 2000

Currently coaching, training TwiAer: janetgregoryca

Email: [email protected]

Agile Tes3ng; 2009 More Agile Tes3ng: Oct 2014

Website: www.agiletester.com www.agiletester.ca

Lisa First agile team – 2000

Currently tes3ng at Piviotal Tracker TwiAer: lisacrispin

Email: [email protected]

Advanced Topics on Agile Tes3ng: Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory

The Day… Maybe!

1.  Introduc3ons 2.  Short intro to get you thinking 3.  Iden3fy biggest challenges 4.  Brainstorm experiments for each 5.  We’ll contribute any ideas we have 6.  Perhaps 3me at the end for general

discussion, demos or mini-‐open space for topics not discussed earlier


•  Brainstorm – explore some new fron3ers! •  Collabora3ve, problem solving a`tude, open •  Models to help with automa3on challenges •  Some more slides – if they relate to

problems / experiments •  You’ll leave with some experiments to help

with your biggest problems and goals

Expecta3ons


What might we talk about? It’s up to you! •  Skills needed, training •  Selec3ng tools •  What to automate •  Who should automate? •  Automa3on paAerns •  Maintaining automated tests •  Con3nuous integra3on & delivery •  Automa3ng at different levels, i.e., API or UI •  Mobile or embedded automa3on

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Introduc3ons

•  What is your specialty?

•  What’s your goal for today? Write it on the lined s3cky.

•  Note who you’d like to talk to

•  Self organize into table groups!


• Why we automate • What gets in the way •  A whole team approach • Helpful models

Let’s Start With An Overview

•  Manual checking takes too long •  Manual checks are error prone •  Frees people to do their best work (tes3ng) •  Provides ‘living documenta3on’ •  Repeatable •  Saves 3me

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Why Should You Automate?

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Why Aren’t You Automa3ng?

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§  ROI – explain to management §  Acknowledge hump of pain

xUnit Test PaAerns, Gerard Meszeros

Perhaps a cri3cal mass

of automa3on libraries

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Recognize change is hard, but worth it if done right

Source: Gojko Adzic, StarEast 2011 keynote

Source: Gojko Adzic, StarEast 2011 keynote

When the TEAM owns automation

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Agile Tes3ng Quadrants

Agile Tes3ng Pyramid (Mike Cohn)

push the tests lower

Automate at the feature

level

Automate at the story

level

Automate at the task

level

Test Automa3on Volcano

Original idea from MaA Barcomb;

Image by Jenn Sinclair

What’s in your way? •  Use the s3cky notes on the tables to iden3fy your automa3on challenges

•  Try be specific because we’ll be grouping them later

•  Share as you write

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Now … Let’s priori3ze 1.  Put your s3ckies on the wall

chart 2.  Group similar challenges 3.  Dot vote for your “favorites”

(three votes each) 5. Create problem statements for each of the top 3

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First brainstorming technique – mind maps!

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first &me

change

new account

password rules

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save user name

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Round 1: Brainstorm

•  Let’s address the top automa3on challenge •  Gather around one or more sheets of flip chart paper – everyone grab a marker!

•  Start drawing your mind map for ideas •  Add notes, pictures, whatever helps you think •  Iden3fy people who can help you, for example, programmers, opera3ons people

Advanced Topics Focus on Automa3on: Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory

20 minutes

Round 1: Outcomes

•  Did mind mapping and drawing help? •  What experiments or ideas did you capture? •  Any interes3ng stories? •  Any outstanding ques3ons?

•  Any surprises?


Round 2: Brain Wri3ng

What is brain wri3ng? •  It’s a way to share your ideas in wri3ng and for others to add theirs

hAps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-‐3-‐5_Brainwri3ng


Problem #2 on the list

Use brain wri3ng to help iden3fy possible solu3ons 1.  Each of you take a sheet of paper. 2.  Write your ideas for ways to address this

automa3on challenge 3.  Awer three minutes, pass your paper to the

next person. (we’ll call 3me) 4.  Read the ideas on the paper you got, and add

more of your own. 5.  Con3nue un3l each person has wriAen on each

paper.


Round 2: Outcomes – Brain Wri3ng

•  What experiments do you want to try? •  Any interes3ng stories? •  Any outstanding ques3ons?

•  Any surprises about using brain wri3ng?


Round 3: Brainstorming with a Twist Use other groups to help iden3fy possible solu3ons


Address your third challenge 1.  Gather around the flip chart 2.  Mind map, draw, write your ideas for experiments 3.  Awer five-‐ten minutes, move right to the next

team’s flip chart (we’ll call 3me) 4.  Read the challenge and the ideas wriAen down,

and add more of your own. 5.  Con3nue for 3 rounds

30?

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Round 3: Outcomes

•  Take a look at all the ideas •  Can you turn those ideas into realis3c experiments to try?

•  What did the group approach help, or hinder?

•  Any surprises about this way of thinking?


There’s more to problem solving:


Esther Derby -‐ model

Let’s Design Some Experiments!

•  Go back to your map or drawing from any round

•  Design at least two experiments to try to address that challenge

•  Think about who could help – maybe people outside of delivery team?

•  Think about how they can help


20 minutes

Outcomes: Designing Experiments

•  Share two experiments from your group •  Would you try these with your own team?


What’s next?


•  More brainstorming or experiment design? •  Demos of exis3ng automa3on solu3ons? •  Did you hear of any frameworks or libraries

you’d like your team to try? •  Q & A

Contact Informa3on

[email protected] www.janetgregory.ca

twiAer: @janetgregoryca

[email protected] www.lisacrispin.com twiAer: @lisacrispin

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