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Mob Testing

by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

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Mob Testing is Mob Programming so that:

•  You’re a tester in a mob

programming team OR

• Activity you mob on is testing

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"All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in

the same space, on the same computer." -- Woody Zuill

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Mobbing Setup and Roles

Driver

Navigators

Designated Navigator

Facilitator

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Strong-Style Navigation

“For an idea to go from your head to the computer it must

go through someone else’s hands”

*http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.fi/2014/06/llewellyns-strong-style-pairing.html

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Strong-Style Pairing Exercise

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Highest level of abstraction

Intent Location Details

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Mobbing Guidelines

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Yes, and…

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Kindness, Consideration and

Respect

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Mob Exploratory Testing

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Task 1: Freeform Exploration

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Product is my external imagination

I am my developer’s external imagination

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Explore with Intent

Mission Charter

Other Charters Details

INT

EN

T

LEA

RN

ING

S

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Exploratory Testing: Frame of Management

”A day’s work”

Vision (“Sandbox”) Current Charter

Other Charters Details

Bug Reports

Perception of quality and coverage

Quality Report Debriefing

Tester

Test Manager

Past Results Obstacles Outlook Feelings

?

#

x Charter backlog of the future testing

Out of budget

Next in importance!

#, ?, x, +

20:20:60

Session sheets of the past testing

Idea of exploration

Metrics summary

Coaching

Playbooks

Coverage outlines

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Task I1: Exploring in a Frame

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From Michael Sahota

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Exploring in a Mob Creating a varied learning experience

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Testers acquire a lot of implicit knowledge

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Introducing concepts, ideas

and tools

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Vocalizing your ideas

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Emotions through Trigger Words

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Mapping Coverage, Bugs and Questions

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Building habits and transferring skills

over passing knowledge

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Automation in Testing The Very Basics

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Test Automation is

Use of Programming for Testing Purposes

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Programming is like writing. Getting

started is easy and it takes a lifetime to

get good at.

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http://selenium.thinkcode.se/

Test Target Application by Thomas Sundberg

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Task 1: Selenium IDE

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Task 1I: Test as code

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Task I: Test-Driven Development

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Coding exercise (Fizz Buzz)

1, 2, Fizz, 4, Buzz,

Fizz, 7, 8, Fizz, Buzz, 11, Fizz, 13, 14, FizzBuzz,

16, 17, Fizz, 19, Buzz

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Discuss Observations Retrospective

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What Testing gives Us

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SPEC FEEDBACK REGRESSION GRANULARITY

GUIDANCE UNDERSTANDING

MODELS SERENDIPITY Testing as

artifact creation

Testing as performance

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Before implementing

While implementing

Before production

While in production

Testing as artifact creation

Testing as performance (exploration)

Ways to think of testing peak at different moments with regards to adding a capability

TOTALS

Testing is Everywhere!

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Takeaways Mob Testing / Mob Programming

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Learning or Contributing

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The 1 % every day => 3600 % in a year

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Maaret Pyhäjärvi Email: maaret@iki.fi Twitter: @maaretp Web: maaretp.com Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi (please connect with me through Twitter or LinkedIn)