Lisa CrispinCopyright 2013

Co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, Addison-Wesley 2009 (and now working on More Agile Testing)

Team Collaboration for TestingSQuAD Conference 2013

Denver, CO

About me:I like collaboration!

About you:Do you work on a cross-functional team?

Do you have access to

stakeholders?

Develop the right thing

Develop the thing right

Why Collaborate?

Collaboration Game: Iteration 1, 5 minutes Form teams of four: coder, tester, customer, and

observer Coder faces away from customer and tester Customer tells the coder what to draw, all at one time. Coder draws the shapes based on what the customer

explained. No talking during ‘coding’!

Tester “tests” the drawing, writes down “bugs” Coder fixes the “bugs” How long did it take? Is the customer happy?

Collaboration Game: Iteration 2, 5 minutes Collaborate! Customer and tester tell coder what to draw, and watch

the coder draw, answer questions, point out ‘defects’ for programmer to fix immediately (Don’t show the coder the drawing, that makes it too

easy, we’re trying to simulate real coding) How long did it take? Is the customer happy? How did that feel compared to Iteration 1?

Thanks to the members of the agile-games group and Kane Mar for ideas & pictures for this game

Collaboration practices

ATDD /SBE

Impact Mapping

Story MappingListen to

customers√Pair

ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development)

UserStory

ExpandTests

High levelAT

Auto-mate tests

Code&

Execute tests

Explore

Exploratory Testing

AcceptStory

Fix defects

Explore examples

• Examples provide common language• Shared vision• Coding and testing concurrently• Involves whole team• Shared definition of DONEBonus: prevents defects!

How ATDD helps collaboration

Recommended books:Specification by Example, Gojko AdzicATDD by Example, Markus Gaertner

• Why are we doing this?• Who can help? Hinder? Who is impacted?• How can they help or hinder? Impacts• What can we do to support impacts?

Deliverables

Impact Mapping

Example Impact Map

Based on example at http://impactmapping.org, Gojko AdzicRecommended book: Impact Mapping

Using impact mapping to problem-solve

Copyright 2012Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory.

Story Mapping

Activities by time

Child

Sto

ries

From Janet Gregory & Matt Barcomb

Jeff Patton: http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/the_new_backlog.html

From Janet Gregory & Matt Barcomb

Listen to your customers!

Collaboration helps simplify, deliver what customers want most

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Pair

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Supportive culture, infrastructure

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Multiple roles, multiple activities

Tester-Designer

Tester-Support

Tester-Tester

Tester-Coder

Analyst, DBA, Sys Admin, Customer…

Tester-Marketer

Become a “generalizing specialist”

"An individual with a deep level of knowledge in at least one domain and a collaborative understanding of at least one other."

Basics

Advanced

Meta

Multi- discipline skillsExpert / Discipline skills

Recommended: http://thesocialtester.co.uk/t-shaped-tester-square-shaped-team/

Collaboration practices

ATDD /SBE

Impact Mapping

Story MappingListen to

customers√Pair

Your stories?