Is Test Planning a lost art in Agile? by Michelle Williams

TDD involves writing tests before writing code to satisfy requirements. The document discusses TDD, providing: 1. An overview of the TDD process and definitions of its key steps - make a test, make it fail, make it pass. 2. An example walking through writing a test for an "easy button" and implementing the code to pass the test. 3. Reasons for using TDD, including improved code quality, design, discipline, and documentation from maintaining an automated test suite.

I believe that our existing models of testing are not fit for purpose – they are inconsistent, controversial, partial, proprietary and stuck in the past. They are not going to support us in the rapidly emerging technologies and approaches. The certification schemes that should represent the interests and integrity of our profession don’t, and we are left with schemes that are popular, but have low value, lower esteem and attract harsh criticism. My goal in proposing the New Model is to stimulate new thinking in this area. eurostarconferences.com testhuddle.com

Learn about the new partnership between QASymphony and TestPlant. TestPlant’s functional automation tool, eggPlant, will be integrated with QASymphony’s qTest platform, providing a seamless solution for automated and manual testers. This partnership will help testing teams of all types get the visibility and traceability needed to understand their coverage and risk. In this webinar, Kevin Dunne, QASymphony's VP of Strategy and Business Development and Antony Edwards, TestPlant's CTO will answer the following questions: What is qTest? What is eggPlant? How does the integration between qTest and eggPlant work? How will the integration help me and/or my team?

This document discusses the speaker's background and experiences with software engineering practices. It covers his education in computational mathematics and computer science, past roles at Universal Instruments developing machine software and at Google and Etsy implementing DevOps practices. Key topics covered include the benefits of continuous integration, deployment and delivery; the importance of testing including test-driven development; and embracing interdependence between developers and other IT roles. Best practices are noted to be situational and relationships must be respected.

- Understand the principles behind the agile approach to software development - Differentiate between the testing role in agile projects compared with the role of testers in non-agile projects - Positively contribute as an agile team member focused on testing - Appreciate the challenges and difficulties associated with the non-testing activities performed in an agile team - Demonstrate a range of soft skills required by agile team members

Looking to move to Continuous Delivery? Worried about the quality of your the code? Helping your developers understand clean-code practices and getting the right testing strategy in place can take a while. What should you do to control the quality of the incoming code till then? This talk shares our experience of using PRRiskAdvisor to gradually educate and influence developers to write better code and also help the code reviewer to be more effective at their reviews.  Every time a developer raises a pull-request, PRRiskAdvisor analyzes the files that were changed and publishes a report on the pull request itself with the overall risk associated with this pull request and also risk associated with each file. It also runs static code analysis using SonarQube and publishes the configured violations as comments on the pull request. This way the reviewer just has to look at the pull request to get a decent idea of what it means to review this pull request. If there are too many violations, then PRRiskAdvisor can also automatically reject the pull request. By doing this, we saw our developers starting paying more attention to clean code practices and hence the overall quality of the incoming code improved, while we worked on putting the right engineering practices and testing strategy in place. More details: https://confengine.com/last-conference-canberra-2018/proposal/7294/improving-the-quality-of-incoming-code Conference Link: https://2019.agileindia.org

This document provides an overview of testing challenges in the Agile development era and discusses different testing methodologies. It contains introductions to four chapters that will be included in the eBook. The chapters are written by Vu Lam, CEO of QASymphony, and Sellers Smith, Director of Quality Assurance and Agile Evangelist for Silverpop. The first chapter discusses how testers need to be reimagined for the Agile age. Testers must adopt an Agile mindset and be involved earlier in the development process. They also need tools designed specifically for Agile testing. The second chapter explores different testing methods including automated, exploratory, and user acceptance testing. It advises using

In this webinar, Hans goes through a number of solutions a team can do to diminish this problem, and what actions to take when it happens. Hans discussed the following solutions on how one can apply better test design to drive better automation, a number of technical strategies, what developers and product owners can do to help, and how to handle the testing and automation work that is still left after a sprint has finished. A key item in handling the test automation work that is left over is that QA’s need to own the testing from the beginning, and should not get stuck in the work of previous sprints, since that will inhibit good cooperation with other team members, making matters worse. Key Takeaways: - Get more tests created and automated. - Make automation manageable and maintainable. - Keep the QA people in sync with their fellow team members. View webinar recording - https://testhuddle.com/resource/how-to-get-automated-testing-done/

You want to integrate skilled testing and development work. But how do you accomplish this without developers accidentally subverting the testing process or testers becoming an obstruction? Efficient, deep testing requires “critical distance” from the development process, commitment and planning to build a testable product, dedication to uncovering the truth, responsiveness among team members, and often a skill set that developers alone—or testers alone—do not ordinarily possess. James Bach presents a model—a redesign of the famous Agile Testing Quadrants that distinguished between business vs. technical facing tests and supporting vs. critiquing―that frames these dynamics and helps teams think through the nature of development and testing roles and how they might blend, conflict, or support each other on an Agile project. James includes a brief discussion of the original Agile Testing Quadrants model, which the presenters believe has created much confusion about the role of testing in Agile.

The document discusses moving to a behavior-driven development (BDD) approach. It outlines challenges with traditional software development processes, such as requirements getting lost in handoffs. BDD aims to address these by shifting testing to the beginning through acceptance tests written in a "Given-When-Then" format. This allows teams to build testable code, catch issues earlier, and deploy features incrementally. Adopting BDD requires training, champion support, and patience. Metrics should track success, and teams can start small before a full rollout.

In this webinar, Matt Heusser explains how not only how to deal with tough questions, but how to prepare and defend estimates that stand up to scrutiny. The conversation includes six estimating models - comparison, functional decomposition, timeboxed, and prediction, along the Guru Method and, perhaps, a little on #NoEstimates. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn: Learn the common mistakes in software test estimation How Testing is different than linear tasks like development (and how to talk about it) Learn what goes wrong in discussions about schedule An explanation of ways to estimate for test - by comparison, functional decomposition, timeboxing, prediction and the guru method How to recognize when you are actually in test negotiation, not test estimation...and what to do about it Matt Heusser will discusses these topics and much, much more! Watch now: http://pi.qasymphony.com/test-estimation-hacks-webinar-lp057

This document discusses challenges with product testing in agile environments and introduces an approach called "Agile Testing on Steroids" to address these challenges. It presents the philosophy behind Agile Testing on Steroids which is to take a pragmatic approach using integrated toolsets and practices to remove subjectivity from decision making. Key aspects include test automation, continuous integration, requirement and test case management, defect tracking, and metrics collection to enable fact-based prioritization, decisions and traceability between requirements, code, tests and defects. The benefits outlined are more streamlined, systematic and comprehensive testing that acts as an informal collaboration platform.

This document discusses agile testing methodology. It begins with general concepts of agile testing such as testing from the customer perspective as early as possible. It then discusses agile testing methodology, challenges, test levels from first to third view perspectives involving extreme testing, exploratory testing, and collaboration between development and testing. The document also covers benefits of being an agile tester such as working as one team towards a common goal. In conclusion, it states that agile testing is useful, less time consuming and effective from the customer's point of view when automated testing is performed and developers, testers and customers work together as a team.

The document provides information about Angela Dugan, an ALM Practice Manager with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. It discusses her background working with Microsoft and Polaris Solutions. The rest of the document covers topics related to adopting agile practices for testing, including comparing waterfall and agile approaches, challenges in transitioning to agile testing, and recommendations for collaboration between testers and developers.

This slides deck was used to guide the talk we did in Agile Testing Days 2017 about the CESAR.thon framework used to plan and run testing Marathons.

Kyle McMeekin presented on using JIRA for exploratory testing. He discussed problems with traditional scripted testing approaches and explained exploratory testing as a more flexible parallel process. Exploratory testing allows testers to investigate opportunities, share knowledge, and keep testing engaging. Session-based testing provides structure for exploratory testing by tracking test charters, notes, issues and more. Tools like JIRA Capture and qTest Explorer help capture evidence from exploratory testing sessions.

Let's explore what is agile testing, how agile testing is different than traditional testing. What practices team has to adopt to have parallel testing and how to create your own test automation framework. Test automation frameworks using cucumber, selenium, junit, nunit, rspec, coded UI etc.

- The document outlines Polarion's test management software capabilities including creating and managing test cases, defects, requirements and specifications with Polarion LiveDocs. It allows defining and running test runs with the Polarion Testing Framework. - It discusses how Polarion can help integrate requirements, testing and defect management and manage activities with all stakeholders. - The presentation then demonstrates Polarion's abilities like requirements and test traceability, test planning and execution, impact analysis and reporting across projects.

The postal business is changing at a rapid pace and the Postal Service must continue to change quickly to remain relevant and competitive in the marketplace. The Postal Service implemented the Agile methodology, replacing the traditional waterfall methodology to improve project communication, increase customer satisfaction, realize business benefits quickly, and improve overall quality. Please join us as Mark outlines the challenges Postal faced before using Agile, how Agile has been implemented across the enterprise, lessons learned, benefits and where they are headed next with Agile Transformation.

Ten steps to test automation success are outlined. The key steps are to improve testing processes, define requirements, prove automation concepts, design products for testability, create sustainable test designs, plan deployments, and address challenges. Test automation can significantly reduce testing effort and increase coverage, but requires careful test selection, design, and addressing common problems like lack of goals, experience, and understanding of new technologies.

This is a practical guide for sprint development based on the OutSystems Delivery Method. It helps you focus some of the main challenges found when using Agile in the field: - Your sprints often start not being ready? - Delivering at sprint end is always struggle? Then you should take a look! Target audience: Agile Project Managers (including Engagement and Delivery Managers)