W16
Agile Testing
5/6/2015 3:00:00 PM
Testers and Testing: A Product
Owner’s Perspective
Presented by:
Scott Barber
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
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Scott Barber
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Chief performance evangelist, Scott Barber is a respected leader in the advancement of
software testing practices, an industry activist, and load testing celebrity of sorts. Scott
authored several books―Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, Beautiful
Testing, How to Reduce the Cost of Testing, and Web Load Testing for Dummies―and more
than 100 articles and blog posts. Founder/president of PerfTestPlus, Scott co-founded the
WOPR, served as director of the AST and CMG, and is a founding member of ISST. His industry
writing, speaking, and activism focus on improving the effectiveness and business alignment of
software development practices. Learn more about Scott Barber.
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By:
Scott BarberChief Technologist
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Created for:
Testers and Testing:
A Product Owner’s Perspective
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Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.www.perftestplus.com
Principal Test Engineer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
www.exacttarget.com
(previously) Product Owner, SmartBear Softwarewww.smartbear.com
Co-Author:Author: Contributing Author:
Books: www.perftestplus.com/pubs About me: about.me/scott.barber
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“I about giving them . I only about giving them !
“We were all put on this planet to . If you are spending time on anything else, you are wrong.”
“So what if {product name} against {technology}. That’s no reason not to sell it to them. You need to !”
“We don’t want to be the best, we want to be barely good
enough to meet our revenue goals!”
I was told+
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1. No “extra” Deliverables
I required 2 items:• Access to current build
• Work item/Story status
• Not started
• In Progress (on track/behind/clarify)
• Blocked
• Complete
I had no interest in: • Test Plans
• Bug Reports
• Test Reports
• Equivalent Dev Items
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2. Joint Accountability
I made no distinction between team members:• Dev/Test/DBA/CM, etc.
• Sometimes I didn’t even know who was which
All that *might* matter to me was: • Who “owned” the Work Item/Story
• Who it was assigned to
• Did they have what they needed
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3. Weekly “Show & Tell”
The whole technical team plus:• Me
• Sr. Pre-Sales Engineer
• Sr. Product Support Engineer
Whomever Work Item/Story was assigned to: • Showed their desktop
• Provided one of the status’s from previous slide
• “Showed & told”
• Answered questions
Work Item/Story Owner (if not current assignee):• Added additional comments when necessary
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4. Sprint Demos
Open to the whole company:• Mandatory attendees
• “Show & Tell” team
• Marketing Lead
• Sales Lead
• Support Lead
Work Item/Story Owner: • Explained rational behind item/story
• “Showed & told”
• Answered questions
Leads/Product Owner:• Added additional comments when necessary
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5. Release Criteria
I chose to release when I could live with the
feedback I was receiving from:• Pre-Sales Engineers
• Support Engineers
• Technical Marketing
• “Secret Advisors”
• Alpha Customers
• Me
I did not use: • Reports
• Metrics
• Dashboards
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Questions?
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Contact Info
about.me/scott.barber
Chief Technologist
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
E-mail:
Blog:
scott-barber.blogspot.com
Web Site:
www.PerfTestPlus.com
Twitter:
@sbarber