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Mob Testing

by Maaret Pyhäjärvi


Mob Testing is Mob Programming so that:

•  You’re a tester in a mob

programming team OR

• Activity you mob on is testing


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

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


Mobbing Setup and Roles

Driver

Navigators

Designated Navigator

Facilitator


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


Strong-Style Pairing Exercise


Highest level of abstraction

Intent Location Details


Mobbing Guidelines


Yes, and…


Kindness, Consideration and

Respect


Mob Exploratory Testing


Task 1: Freeform Exploration


Product is my external imagination

I am my developer’s external imagination


Explore with Intent

Mission Charter

Other Charters Details

INT

EN

T

LEA

RN

ING

S


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


Task I1: Exploring in a Frame


From Michael Sahota

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Exploring in a Mob Creating a varied learning experience


Testers acquire a lot of implicit knowledge


Introducing concepts, ideas

and tools


Vocalizing your ideas


Emotions through Trigger Words


Mapping Coverage, Bugs and Questions


Building habits and transferring skills

over passing knowledge


Automation in Testing The Very Basics


Test Automation is

Use of Programming for Testing Purposes


Programming is like writing. Getting

started is easy and it takes a lifetime to

get good at.


http://selenium.thinkcode.se/

Test Target Application by Thomas Sundberg


Task 1: Selenium IDE


Task 1I: Test as code


Task I: Test-Driven Development


Coding exercise (Fizz Buzz)

1, 2, Fizz, 4, Buzz,

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

16, 17, Fizz, 19, Buzz


Discuss Observations Retrospective


What Testing gives Us

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SPEC FEEDBACK REGRESSION GRANULARITY

GUIDANCE UNDERSTANDING

MODELS SERENDIPITY Testing as

artifact creation

Testing as performance


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!


Takeaways Mob Testing / Mob Programming


Learning or Contributing


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


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

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