agile tester 3.0

AGILE TESTER 3.0

Daniel Ricardo de Amorim

About me!

Daniel Ricardo de Amorim● Agile QA Consultant at ThoughtWorks● Speaker ● Writer● amorim.danielricardo@gmail.com● https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielricardodeamorim/en

http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/agile-tester-30

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How do agile testers work?

Terminologies

● Quality Assurance ● Quality Analyst● Tester● Test Engineer● Software engineer in Test● Lead QA● Test Analyst

Testers are not sub-roles or separate roles in the team

Not a sub role anymore

Testers are part of the development team

Testers are engineers as well

What is the difference between an Agile Tester and a Developer?

Are they enemies?

But, are all QAs equal the same?

#not

What distinguishes QAs among themselves?

QA profiles can be sorted in three dimensions

Sort of QA's profile in 3 dimensions

● Business dimension● Technical dimension● DevOps dimension

Business dimension

Business driven

Extracting acceptance tests

BDD is one of the techniques

Recommended books

Recommended books

Technical dimension

Programming skills

Pair with devs

TDD and clean code enthusiasts

Experts on test automation

Knowledge on performance testing

Knowledge on security testing

Recommended books

Recommended books

DevOps dimension

Continuous delivery

Automate repeatable tasks

Recommended books

All QAs

Keep the team focused on delivery

Concern about product's quality

Ownership of tests

Wear many hats

Infect the team

The bible

THANK YOUFor questions or suggestions:

Daniel Ricardo de Amorimdamorim@thoughtworks.com