agile testing: where we are, where we're heading #phtestcon2017
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Where We Are. Where We’re Heading.
Ian Pestelos | linkedin.com/in/ianpestelos | [email protected]
AGILE TESTING
“There is no place for a manual tester in Scrum”
- Ian’s CSM Trainer, July 2011
IAN PESTELOSCoaching Teams and Leaders on Agile, Design Thinking, Software Quality, and Management 3.0
GLOBALINVESTMENT
BANK
What’s up, doc?
○ What Works? Practices.
○ What Hurts? Challenges.
○ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
○ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
What’s up, doc?
➢ What Works? Practices.
○ What Hurts? Challenges.
○ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
○ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
Mindmapping
Mindmapping
Low-Fi Wireframing
Low-Fi Wireframing
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Desk Checking
Mindmapping
Low-Fi Wireframing
Story Slicing
Team Testing
Mindmapping
Low-Fi Wireframing
What’s up, doc?
✓ What Works? Practices.
➢ What Hurts? Challenges.
○ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
○ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
Limited insight on business goals
and impact
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Structural constraints(perceived or real)
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Learned Helplessness
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Practices changed.
But yet we remain fundamentally the same
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What’s up, doc?
✓ What Works? Practices.
✓ What Hurts? Challenges.
➢ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
○ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
OUTCOME
Over Output
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BEST PRINCIPLES
Over Best Practices
Source: @GrowingAgile https://www.growingagile.co.za/2015/04/the-testing-manifesto/
USER’S STORY
Over User Stories
What’s up, doc?
✓ What Works? Practices.
✓ What Hurts? Challenges.
✓ What’s Up? Core Perspective.
➢ What’s Next? Steps Forward.
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Experiment oncore principles
How might we... improve team ownership of quality?
Source: @GrowingAgile https://www.growingagile.co.za/2015/04/the-testing-manifesto/
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Dive deeper intobusiness context
What business goals and impact are we trying to achieve?
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Widen your scope and influence
How might we extend our testing skills beyond software engineering?
The most important bugs are
ones that never made it to
the bug tracking system
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Step back and dotest mentorshipand coaching
How might we broaden our options for growing others?
Your agility in testing are judged not just by tests you covered or bugs you found, but more importantly
by the type of questions you raise & by the quality of info you provideto meet business outcomes
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Steps Forward
● Experiment on core principles● Dive deeper into business contexts● Widen your scope and influence● Step back and do test mentorship and
coaching
Fuck it, just do it.
IAN PESTELOSCoaching Teams and Leaders on Agile, Design Thinking, Software Quality, and Management 3.0
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