Agile Testing – embedding testing into agile software development lifecycle
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The document discusses agile testing methodologies and their integration into the software development lifecycle, emphasizing the importance of continuous testing and quality assurance throughout the project. It outlines various testing approaches, tools, and techniques, including exploratory testing, and highlights the need for collaboration among team members. Additionally, it provides insights into developing a lean mindset and effectively utilizing metrics to enhance testing processes and outcomes.
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Agile Testing – embedding testing into agile software development lifecycle
- 1. Agile Testing – embedding testing into agile software development lifecycle “Tune your Agile” Kari Kakkonen © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0
- 2. Kari Kakkonen, Knowit • Speaks, train, coach and mentor regularly about • ISTQB Advanced and Foundation + Knowit Testing Professional • Quality & Test process and organization development • Agile testing, Scrum, Kanban, Lean • Metrics • Leadership • Test automation, mobile, cloud • Quality, Cost, Benefits • Speaking & writing highlights • EuroSTAR and Iqnite several times • ASTQB in USA, OOP in Germany, TEST-IT in South-Africa, Nordic Testing Days in Estonia, Testing Days in Czech • Numerous times in Finland at Testing Assembly, Aalto Testing Days, Tieturi Testing, Talentum Testing Forum, Quality Assurance & Software Testing, ICT Expo, TestIT Summit, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Borland etc. events • Testing Experience magazine, Quality and Testing magazine, Sytyke-magazine, Tietoviikko • Education • ISTQB Expert Level Test Management Full & Advanced Full certified • SPICE provisionary assessor certified • M.Sc, Helsinki University of Technology / Aalto- university • Marketing studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison • Professional achievements • Wide spread of business domain knowledge • Embedded, Industry, Public, • Training, Telecom, Commerce, • Insurance, Banking, Pension • Finnish Software Testing Board FiSTB, chairman • TestausOSY/FAST founding member • Knowit, Director, Quality and Competences • Chairman of research project STX, Lappeenranta University of Technology • Finnish Software Measurement Association FiSMA ry ex-board member • Ranked in 100 most influential IT-persons in Finland © Knowit Oy Twitter: @kkakkonen LinkedIn: fi.linkedin.com/in/karika kkonen/
- 3. 110 145 154 189 215 215 220 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Trusted Partner in Nordics Experts in1800Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Russia and Estonia Knowit AB is listed on the Nordic Exchange in Stockholm Grouprevenue(MEUR)
- 4. Agile local partner Over 20years of experience Close to 200experts One of the fastest growing technology companies in Finland. (Top 10 Deloitte 2008 – 2011)
- 5. More productivity in information-intensive work with efficient digital tools Improved sales, collaboration and communication with advanced web solutions. Better decisions based on refined business information. Shorter lead times and lower costs in product development through quality management and flexible resourcing We develop our customers competitiveness
- 6. Some Knowit partners, related to quality • Technology partners and alliances • Testing partners 16.6.2014 © Copyright Knowit Oy 2012 | Confidential robotframework
- 7. Tune your Agile © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0 7
- 8. Knowit customer success with agile 8 Productivity increase 200% 22x Less bugs found after release Team satisfaction up with 20+ % © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential Developer code productivity increase 230%
- 9. Agile needs quality and testing integrated into everything 16.6.2014 © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0 9 Quality is not added afterwords Quality is built in and tested continuously
- 10. Think through testing quadrants • Supports Agile testing strategy and planning • Covers all goals • Enables balancing testing efforts Acceptance Testing (automated or partly manual) Unit Testing (automated) Business facing Technology facing Exploratory Testing (manual or partly automated) Non-functionality tests (e.g. performance testing supported by tools) CritiqueProduct Supportteam Source: original idea by Brian Marick & adaptation by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
- 11. Engage in exploratory testing • Scripted vs. Exploratory Testing (ET) • ET is an approach, not a technique • Variety of testing techniques can be used • ET helps to find surprises, implications of interactions, misunderstandings not covered by specifications and other tests • Charters and focused sessions • Sessions make ET estimable and measurable • Charters and logs make ET as documented testing Source: Elisabeth Hendrickson, Cem Caner, James Bach, Lisa Crispin “Exploratory Testing is a style of testing in which you learn about the software while simultaneously designing and executing tests, using feedback from the last test to inform the next”
- 12. Use cloud (MS, IBM…) Set up test automation to work with continuous integration, example 16.6.2014 © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential Robot Framework Quality Center Jmeter Python libraries Selenium Jenkins GIT Quick Test Pro SoapUI Sharepoint Assure
- 13. Agile is evolving, what fits together? 16.6.2014 © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0 13 Scrum Kanban Waterfall, V- Model Scaled Agile Framework Lean Lean Six Sigma DevOps Continuous Deployment Hybrid
- 14. The typical first try in agile 16.6.2014 © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0 14 Business Team
- 15. Tune your team 16.6.2014 © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0 15 BusinessAcceptance testing TeamTeam testing Create part-time professionalism • Coach&Train business people into quality and testing • Coach&Train developers into automation, testing and quality Hire full-time professionals • Acceptance testers • Exploratory testers • Hybrid experts (developer+tester) • Test automation specialists • Exploratory testers
- 16. Tune your organization 16.6.2014 © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0 16 Lean mindset Agile on team level Teams synced Continous delivery Workshops & coaching Build agile teams, including quality & testing Build synchronization accross teams Build cloud-enabled, automated-tests-run environments Mindset transformation Lifecycle process transformation Organization tranformation Tools and environments as a service
- 17. Knowit Agile Quality Service ”Tune your agile” 16.6.2014 © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0 17 • Agile maturity assessment • Target setting • Live with the team Plan and assess • Refresh agile mindset • Competence development of existing team members • Add professional roles where applicable Tune your team • Create lean mindset to higher levels of organization • Build on team successes • Create synchronization between teams • Create fully automatic environments Tune your organization
- 18. Case Embedding Agile Testing © Copyright Knowit Oy 2013 | Confidential | Version 1.0 18
- 19. TYPICAL TO AGILE TESTING • Adapts to changes very fast • Not plan-driven, but lives with the project • Testing is done from the beginning of the project, not just in the end of it • Emphasizes the team, humanity/human-centeredness and cooperation • Tests iteratively piece by piece • Customer is involved even in all testing phases • Continuous integration • Automation of testing at least in unit-testing • It is more important to find bugs than to write comprehensive documents 19
- 20. WHAT AGILE TESTING IS NOT? • A separate phase at the end of software development project • Unsystematic • Documentation free • Random • Uncontrolled • Straightforward operation without feedback 20
- 21. COMPARISON OF TESTING APPROACHES • Test cases are created and documented first • Testing can be executed later by the same or a different person • Tests are planned and executed at the same time and they are usually not documented in detail 21 Tests Application Tests Testaaja Testaaja Testaaja Plan-driven Agile VS.
- 22. PLAN-DRIVEN VS. AGILE ENTITY 22 Purely plan- driven testing Plan-driven testing Agile testing Pure agile testing
- 23. PLANNING OF AGILE TESTING • Start with a light overall test planning • Choose the proper tools • Create a testing environment • Prioritize things to be tested in each iteration (sprint) • Create test cases for the first iteration on the agreed (light) accuracy level • Outline tests for next iterations • Automate testing 23
- 24. CHALLENGES IN AGILE TESTING • The identification of omissions • Are we testing the right things? • Is testing sufficiently comprehensive? • Is continuous integration working? 24
- 25. THINGS TO CONSIDER IN AGILE TESTING • Expand testing, for example: • A separate system testing level • Security testing already at the early stage of the project • Start performance testing before the product is complete • Internal acceptance testing when the team believes that the product is ready 25
- 26. SPECIALIZING AS AN AGILE TESTER • Must have a good understanding of the agile software development process and experience from agile projects • The ability to act and to envisage is achieved only with adequate experience • An agile tester must understand • business processes • software development (more than in plan-driven processes) • the politics between organizations and people • psychology between people and groups • A good tester seamlessly fits in and adapts to the team 26
- 28. TESTER’S DAY IN SCRUM 28 • Daily Scrum-meeting • Keeping up-to-date in the progress of developers’ work • Testing (includes parallel test design and test run) • Taking care of test coverage • Clearing up defects and reporting • Maintaining tests and test automation • Avoiding of test lack (quality debt) • Keep up with the pace of the developers • Avoid the attitude: ”rest of the tests can be done later”
- 29. TYPICAL CONSTRAINTS • Not many testers developers have the main responsibility for testing • Tester's role consists of • Test the system as whole from many perspectives • Ensure that each developer takes care of his own area • Risk • All testing is left to the few testers 29
- 30. BUILDING UP TESTING • Testers in the team • Need to be able to test • Need to keep the development team aligned with testing • Independent • If necessary testers must be able to make their case to developers • Test manager type role, need charisma • Need to get experience from agile testing quickly • Senior testing consultant works in the beginning as an Agile Testing Coach 30
- 31. AGILE TESTING COACH • Creates agile testing approaches • Helps the team to act independently • Testers • Developers • More time use in the first sprints • Less time use in the later sprints 31
- 32. APPROACH • Objective • When are we successful? – Aim to support the delivery • Definition of Done • Testing does things that are needed to meet the objectives • Things, that customer wants will be done • Ensure adequate testing coverage • Choices based on Agile Manifesto 32
- 33. AGILE MANIFESTO • We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools • Working software over comprehensive documentation • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation • Responding to change over following a plan • That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. (http://agilemanifesto.org/) 33
- 34. TESTING COVERAGE • Sufficient number of perspectives • Test levels • Test types • Roles • Tester’s responsibility to test comprehensively requires • Knowledge of test design techniques • Knowledge of exploratory testing • Non-functional testing is taken into account as separate test tasks during the Sprint or is done by the user/customer separately 34
- 35. MEANS • Product backlog and sprint backlog • Checklist card of each task in product backlog • Master test plan • Developer’s part of the system testing is more than a smoke test • Tester attends to daily scrum meeting 35
- 36. PRODUCT BACKLOG AND SPRINT BACKLOG • Product backlog • General monitoring of development tasks, contains PASS/FAIL from testing perspective • Product backlog –level works as internal system testing • Sprint backlog is a scheduled part of product backlog, own view • Development tasks that include also unit testing • System testing is a separate task for each functionality • Task level follow-up of testing 36
- 37. CHECKLIST CARD FOR A SINGLE TASK IN PRODUCT BACKLOG • Printed for every task • Follow-up with tally marks for control • As a checklist • Not a management tool (different means for that) • Printed also as reminders on the walls 37
- 38. • Functionality links to backlog and user stories • User Stories used in the creation of tests Functionality is connected to a user story and sprint • Test relates to functionality, system and backlog • Test cases can be updated by anyone Functional tests are listed and updated by testers and developers • User interface guidelines have been followed Developer has implemented the functionality in accordance with coding standards and TDD • New code must not break the system • The goal is to make this task automatic Integrator has done manual and automatic integration tests • Tests made by the developer and the tester • Tester focuses on exploratory testing Functionality has been tested and any found defects reported by testers and developers • Product owner decides if defect is fixed Developer has repaired the defects, which have been decided to be fixed • During the sprint or review meeting Customer Product Owner has approved the functionality
- 39. MASTER TEST PLAN • Very light and informative, concise text • Cases • Presentation of the project in terms of testing • Excluded matters • Description of architecture (1 picture) • Roles and responsibilities –table • Test levels and test types (perspectives) • Testing process (explanation and picture) • Test cases (location and methods) • Defect management (location, process, instructions) • Tools (listing) • Task list (management checklist, no team tasks) 39
- 40. ROLES FROM TESTING PERSPECTIVE Role Tasks Tester Designing and testing of system test cases Exploratory testing Follow-up of check list cards Reporting of defects Developer Manual and automated unit testing, Test Driven Development Fixing of defects Adherence to coding standards System testing part 1 of own functionalities, reporting of defects Supporting of testers in testing Integrator Selected developer will always make the build Smoke test Scrum master No specific testing role Product owner Team member, who makes the difficult decisions Supports system testing and reporting Customer product owner Approves the functionalities during the sprint or in final meeting Acceptance testing Support system testing and development 40
- 41. TEST LEVELS • Test levels • Unit testing: Test Driven Development • Integration testing: continuous integration • System testing: mainly roles • Acceptance testing: • Customer tests single functionalities as soon as these are available • All functionalities included in sprint are tested during the last few days of the sprint • Acceptance in sprint review • Not the means for working phase-by-phase, but giving responsibility 41
- 42. TEST TYPES • Test types • Functionality testing on each level • Performance testing • Automated regression testing after each change • Smoke test after each installation of a new build • Re-testing of fixes by tester • Giving responsibility roles for each testing type is important 42
- 43. 2 Unit test 3 Integrate 4 Smoke test 5 Test new features 1 Implement Functional testing and exploratory testing Product backlog, sprint Requirements, functionalities & user stories List of test cases 24h Day1 Start Day 2-17 Implement functionality Day 18-20 Fix defects 2 Unit test 3 Integrate 4 Smoke test 5 Verify fixes 1 Fix 24h Testers Developers TESTING PROCESS
- 44. TEST CASES IN DEVELOPER’S TESTING • Manual unit testing based on user story • Mark of passed tests to the check list card • Automated tests to selected basic functionalities 44
- 45. TEST CASES IN SYSTEM TESTING • Traditional, but tests designed in test idea level only with good coverage, 1-2 tests per functionality • 20% all of tests • Planning in the beginning of the sprint and just before need • Level of detail chosen for the tester herself • Part of these to be automated • Regression testing • Browser versions • Exploratory testing is focused only to functionality areas, not on specific functionalities • 80% of all tests • Test log is used in both types of testing 45
- 46. EXPLORATORY TESTING - TERMS • Adventure may go to sidetrack as long as you come back to mainroad again (Kaner) • Session-based test management (Bach) • Testing area: a bunch of functionalities • Testing session • Duration about ½ - 2 hours • Time span of concentrated work is about 20 minutes • Getting back to work takes about 20 minutes 46
- 47. 47 LEARNING IN EXPLORATORY TESTING Testing Opinion-forming Reporting Designing actions Observations After reference: Psychology of Usability, Sinkkonen et al.
- 48. CONFIDENTIAL. © Endero Oy 2008 48 CHARTER • What will be tested? • What documents are available? • What kind of errors are being sought? • Tasks and what test techniques will be used? • Targets and outputs (for example reports) Reference: A practioner’s guide to software test design. Copeland Ref. Exploratory testing: A multiple case study. Itkonen, Rautiainen
- 49. CONFIDENTIAL. © Endero Oy 2008 49 CHARTER Area Coverage and working hours Practice Documents Result possible errors Risks R1. Customer’s all selected items are not added to order, Effect: 20 eur/buyer, probability 5% R2. Order can not be completed after interruption, 5, probability: ?? Main page 100% Path coverage (direct paths) and the most common (80% used) loops 10h Scripting with Functional Tester-tool Main page display description document, navigation map (COMING FROM DEVELOPMENT) All pages and the shopping cart are available Shopping cart 5h Shopping cart-UC.doc (use case) Shopping cart can be used in the same way as a real shopping cart The same product can not be added to shopping cart several times Emptying the shopping cart causes an execption R1 Order ? Order-UC.doc? R2 Reference: www.satisfice.com/articles/sbtm.pdf
- 50. CONFIDENTIAL. © Endero Oy 2008 50 TESTING DASHBOARD AS A TEST REPORT - AN EXAMPLE Test area Workload Coverage Quality level/risks Comment Main page !Interrupted High, 5h Very high [all parts + stress tests etc..] 49: 1435, 36: 1469, 42: 1501 wait for more pictures of user interface Shopping cart !Started High, 2h (reserved 4h) Low [main parts to testing] (High) 81: 1425 [probability 9 x effect 9; error number. 1425] Order !Done 6h (reserved 4h) High [all parts] Feedback !Not done Low (reserved 1h) Low [main parts to testing]
- 51. MEASUREMENT • Metrics: • Defect reports as status listings • Defect numbers per status (open, fixed) • Defect numbers per more detailed status (…named) • Number of passed Product backlog items in testing • Workload of testing tasks in burndown chart • Team follows and guides itself with the metrics mentioned above CONFIDENTIAL. © Endero Oy 2009 51
- 52. Questions? [email protected] Twitter: @kkakkonen LinkedIn: fi.linkedin.com/in/karikakkonen/ © Copyright Knowit Oy 2014 | Confidential | Version 1.0 52