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The role of agile tester
- 1. Muhammad Naeem Senior SQAAnalyst Contour Software
- 2. What isAgile Testing? Agile Quality – A Team Deliverable Agile Testing Approach Brian Marick’s Agile Testing Matrix Tester Activities Agile Testing Success Factor
- 3. Agile testingis a software testing practice that follows the principles of agile software development. Agile testing involves all members of a cross- functional agile team, with special expertise contributed by testers, to ensure delivering the business value desired by the customer at frequent intervals, working at a sustainable pace.
- 4. Agile Practice Benefits WholeTeam • Quality is not just a tester responsibility • Quality is more than just testing • Testing role shifts to quality infusion throughout project life cycle Continuous Integration • Developers cannot check in code with failing tests Continuous Testing • Avoids long delays with “big-bang” testing after the “final build” • Bugs found closer to when they are introduced making them easier to fix
- 5. Testers arefirst class citizens on agile teams and part of the “whole team” supporting customers, business stakeholders, developers and other team members Testers support quality infusion through entire team and product cycle Test tasks and stories are planned and executed like development tasks and stories Automate where possible
- 6. CritiquesProduct SupportsDevelopment Functional Tests Customer Tests StoryTests/Examples User Acceptance Tests Exploratory Tests Usability Tests Unit Tests Integration Tests Performance Tests Load Tests Customer Facing Technology Facing Automate Tools Manual Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Automate
- 7. • Session-based testing, agiletest environments • Informative workspace Foundation of critical practices •Collaborate with customers •Collaborate within team Collaborate •Team retrospectives •Personal training: reading, blogs, QAI, local QA groups Continually improve CritiquesProduct SupportsDevelopment Product Specifications Test Ideas Testing UAT Design Exploratory Testing Usability Testing Test Ideas Test Development Testing Test Scripts Testing Test Analysis Customer Facing Technology Facing Product Owner Collaboration IT Collaboration Customer Collaboration Developer Collaboration Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
- 8. • Be cathedralbuilders not stone cutters • Collective ownership Testers are part of the team • Drop the “Quality Police” mindset • Focus on team goals & customer value Agile testing mindset • Automate tests wherever practical • Need rapid feedback Automate tests • Balance against developer focus on technical implementation • Use agile test matrix as guide Look at the big picture
Editor's Notes
- #4 Several core practices used by agile teams relate to testing. Agile programmers use test-driven development (TDD), also called test-driven design, to write quality production code.