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© 2011 Seapine Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
A Software Manager’s Guide to Defining Testing in an Agile Age
A Seapine Software Webinar
Peter VarholSolutions Evangelist, Seapine Software
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Agenda
• What Does it Mean to Be Agile?
• Principles of Agile Development
• Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• Testing and Automation
• Making Testing Count with Agile
• Summary and Questions
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What Does It Mean to Be Agile?
• Satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software
• Working software is the primary measure of progress
• Deliver working software frequently
• Build projects around motivated individuals
• At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective
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What Does It Mean to Be Agile?
• Early and continuous delivery of software
• Requirements less formal – user stories
• Iterative development cycle
• One week to one month
• Working software at the end of each
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What Does It Mean to Be Agile?
• Working software is the primary measure of progress
• User stories translated to features
• Features delivered after each iteration
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What Does It Mean to Be Agile?
• Deliver working software frequently
• One week to one month
• Timeframe continues to shorten
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What Does It Mean to Be Agile?
• Build projects around motivated individuals
• Developers, testers, users
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What Does It Mean to Be Agile?
• Reflect on how to become more effective
• Don’t keep making the same mistakes
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Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• There’s not one single prescription
• Agile methodologies promote short release cycles
• Every project is unique
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Assignment: Reinvention
• Quality is a high priority
• But testing can’t plan like it used to
• Needed: a new approach to testing
• Testers have to reinvent themselves and their craft
• A path to value
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Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• Reinventing testing for Agile
• Testers remain essential to quality
• A long lead time before active testing is infeasible
• How to reconcile test planning with up-front execution
• Can planning be saved?
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Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• Iterate on planning
• Keep pace with development
• Iterate on testing
• Manage risk so that the most important features and actions are well-tested
• Iterate on quality
• Measure your quality
• Improve it in the next iteration
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Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• Early involvement by testers
• Testers need to work directly with product owners
• Must understand the user needs
• Get underneath the user story
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Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• Focus testing on features that make a difference to users
• No requirements to analyze
• No time for comprehensive test plans
• Learn what the users need
• Make sure those features work
• Users sign off, testers validate
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Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• Ensure that testers take the lead
• Take responsibility for application quality
• Become an interface to the user community
• Work with developers as equal partners
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Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• Enable testers to work side-by-side with developers
• Testers need to know about tactical development decisions
• This is especially important in Agile projects without formal requirements
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Integrating Testing into Agile Development
• Make automation an integral part of testing
• Agility and automation work hand in hand
• Accelerate testing to show agility
• Data collection and analysis essential
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Testing and Automation
• Automate both process and testing
• Agile methodologies are lightweight
• But tools are essential for speed and flexibility
• Tools accelerate repetitive manual processes
• But tool overhead can’t outweigh benefits
• Easy to learn and use
• Provide easily digestibleinformation
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Testing and Automation
• Process Automation
• User story tracking - Hint: 3 x 5 cards don’t cut it
• Feature backlog
• Defect tracking
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Testing and Automation
• Testing automation
• Test management
• Automated functional and regression tests
• Automated load testing – valuable for assessing design and coding practices
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Making Testing Count With Agile
• Ensure that testers take the lead on the building and execution of functional, regression, and acceptance test cases
• Independence from development helps ensure objective evaluation
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Making Testing Count With Agile
• Enable testers and developers to make coding decisions together
• Helps prioritize testing
• Guide development in decision-making
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Making Testing Count with Agile
• Automate to achieve speed and efficiency
• Use tools when there is a clear advantage
• Don’t get bogged down with configuring and maintenance
• Focus on the goal
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Summary
• Agile methodologies and testing work well together
• Quality is the common factor
• Testers need earlier involvement, more interaction with users and developers
• An independent voice of quality
• Automation makes testing feasible
• Repetitive activities are accelerated
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For More Information
• Seapine Software – www.seapine.com
• “Testing in an Agile Age” Whitepaper http://bit.ly/hiGtkk
• Agile Expedition – www.seapine.com/exploreagile
• The Seapine View - http://blogs.seapine.com/
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