cPrime - Agile Quality Engineering

Agile Testing
Quality Engineering
Presenter: Luk Lau
Agile Coach, CSM, CSPO,
Innovation Games® Facilitator

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Today’s Conversation
• What is Agile Quality Engineering
• Agile Mindsets and Being Lean
• Agile Quality Engineer's Value Proposition
• Value Driven Quality and Scrum
• Test Automation, Continuous Integration &
Continuous Deployment
• Testing Effort "illities”
• TDD, BDD & Exploratory Testing
• Foundation of sustainability
• Better ways to collaborate & innovate
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Testing & Agile

Is Agile Testing about?
• TDD
• Test Automation
• Exploratory Testing
• BDD
• ATDD

Agility is a state
Agile
Mindset
PracticesTesting

Agile Testing is
Testing Quality
Engineering with
an Agile Mindset.

Is Testing == Quality?

• Build the right thing the right
way -> Quality Product
• Agile allow us to do it more
effectively and efficiently.
• So we can deliver the most
business value in the
shortest amount of time

Agile Quality Engineering is
• Understand & Define Quality
• Quality Driven & Being First Class
• Value Driven & Knowing Good Enough
• Enable Collaboration & Detevestlopmenting
• Zero Quality Control & Mistake Proofing
• Continuously Improve Testability &
Shareability
• Make Quality Traceable & Visible

Agile
Mindset
Scrum
Values
Agile
Values &
Principles
Lean
Principles

Agile Values

Agile Principles

Game

Scrum Values
Courage Openness Commitment
Focus Respect

Lean Principles

Agile Tester Quality Engineer’s
Value Proposition
Facilitate and
maintain clear
requirement
Drive Quality
& Value
Driven Culture
More Testing
& Less
Checking
First Class
Collaborator

Facilitate and maintain clear requirement
• Help Product Owner
• Drive development with Acceptance instead of
at the receiving end
• Maintain, evolve, improve shareability and
collective ownership of living specification
• Drive effective & efficient story grooming. About
“What” instead of “How”
• Write scenarios with Gherkin
• Make requirement traceable
• Be the master of facilitation

Drive Quality & Value Driven Culture
• Define quality & associated value
• Making “Working Software / Quality” visible
• Make quality & testability an integral part of
development
• "Ready Ready" & "Done Done"
• Minimize WIP
• Simplify and optimize testing processes

More Testing & Less Checking
• Automated as much as possible with value
• Refactor & maintain tests as living
specification
• Effort Shifting
• Practice Exploratory Testing
• Prioritize & balance testing need & value
• Identify & communicate testing intention
• Engage all stakeholders to improve testability
• Define and practice meaningful "ility tests"

First Class Collaborator
• Communicate, Cooperate & Coordinate
• Learn to facilitate & teach
• Be a first class citizen of the team initiatively
• Be cross functional & open to try different tasks
• Connect with the team, organization & the testing
community
• Promote & celebrate excellence
• Continuous Improvement

Practices to make your Scrum / Testing
more effective & efficient
• Story Mapping
• Need Better Story Slicing
• Story Grooming (about what)
• Testing Intention instead of testing script
• Write Scenarios with Gherkin
• “Ready Ready”
• Limit WIP
• “Done Done”
• Automation
• Daily Goal
• Team Room & Visible 5 Levels of Planning
(Vision, Roadmap, Release, Iteration, Daily)

Testing Pyramid

Definition of Quality
What is good enough
& what is the value?

Foundation of sustainability
Forming the critical mass
Management’s Agile Mindset & Support

Better ways to collaborate
& Innovate
• Innovation Games®
• Game Storming
• Visual Thinking, Visual Meeting
• Bla Bla Bla
• Root Cause Analysis (e.g.5 Whys)
• Hoshin Planning
• Story Mapping

What are the testing
challenges in your agile
team you are facing?

Poll
What size is your organization?
–1-100
–100-500
–500-1000
–1000-2000
–2000+

Poll
Which best describes your role?
–Scrum Master
–Product Owner
–Manager
–Team Member
–Other

Poll
How would you rate your
organization's Agile
maturity on a scale of 1-
5? (1 being less mature
and 5 more mature)

Q&A

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