EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2013 presentation on Moving To Weekly Releases by Rob Lambert. See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/

1. Moving To Weekly Releases
Rob Lambert, NewVoiceMedia
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3. Deploy
?
Don’tdeploy?
Go? No go?
Have we done enough testing?

5. Image courtesy of Gothia Towers website

7. How did we make the change?
We created
a Vision

8. The Vision
Weekly Releases
1. Adopt Agile
2. Break down barriers between teams
3. Prioritise the work
4. Everyone tests. Test all the time.

9. Everyone tests. Test all the time.
Some of the ways we did it.

10. 1. Removed the notion of testers
being the centre of the universe
We are important. But no
more than others.
Instead – put “testing” in the
centre.

11. 2. Focussed on automating the checks
BDD
TDD
CI
Selenium

12. 3. Ate our own product
Pre-production
testing
Image from Zen Sutherland
“Gravel dogfood leaf" July 16, 2009 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.

13. 4. Tested after releasing
TRUST
Monitoring
Used it ourselves

14. 5. Emphasised discovery over
assumptions
ET
What is the
system telling us?

15. 6. Became “one” with data
NewRelic
Papertrail
Firebug
StatsHat
Gource
Gecko Board

16. 7. Learned.
Then learned some more.
Chances to learn:
• Every release
• Every build
• Every check-in
• Every test
• Every customer contact
• Every bug

17. 8. Dealt with fires
Kept putting
them out. But
kept pushing
on.
“If it hurts.
Keep doing it.”

18. Did it work?
Yes.
But we still
have some
work to do.

19. Questions
Where you can find me:
Web – www.newvoicemedia.com
Blog - www.thesocialtester.co.uk
Twitter - @rob_lambert
My book – Remaining Relevant - http://thesocialtester.co.uk/remainingrelevant/