Agile Testing Concepts and Techniques. Learn more about - What is Agile Testing, What is Quality in Agile, Principles for Agile Testers, Agile Testing Quadrants, Agile Testing Challenges, Agile Testing Approach, Session Based Testing, Test Reporting Techniques

1. Agile Testing - Concepts & Techniques
Date: 2nd Dec 2015
Presented by –
Kingshuk Chatterjee & Amol Sande
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2. Agenda
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 What is Agile Testing
 What is Quality in Agile
 Principles for Agile Testers
 Agile Testing Quadrants
 Agile Testing Challenges
 Agile Testing Approach
 Session Based Testing
 Test Reporting Techniques

3. Waterfall Vs Agile
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4. Principles for Agile Testers:
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 Provide continuous feedback
 Deliver value to the customer
 Enable Face to Face Communication
 Practice Continuous improvement
 Respond to Change
 Self Organize
 Focus on People

5. Typical Processes:
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 Seeking lightweight process
 Test planning
 Defect Tracking
 Metrics

6. Agile Testing Quadrants
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Business Facing
Technology Facing
SupportingtheTeam
CritiqueProduct

7. Agile Testing Challenges
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 Team may not value testers or vice versa.
 Unclear role of testers.
 Testing often squeezed as deadlines approach.
 Developers and testers are often in different operation
silos.
 Team may not have the skills or domain expertise to test
effectively.

8. Agile Testing Approach
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 Testers are first class citizens of agile teams and part of
“Whole Team” supporting customers, business stake
holders, dev and other team members.
 Testers support quality infusion through entire team and
product cycle.
 Test tasks and stories are planned and executed like
development stories and task.
 Automate where possible and use creative approaches
for testing.
 Communicate through information radiators.

9. Session Based Testing
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• A method specifically designed to make exploratory testing auditable and
measurable on a wider scale.

10. Session Based Testing
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• Charter:
• Session:
• Charter:
• Session:
1. Goal or agenda for test session in 1 to 3 sentences.
2. Created by test team prior to start of testing but may
be changed at any time.
3. Created from specifications, test plan or from previous
test session results.
1. Testing for uninterrupted period of time (1 or 2 hours)
2. Session focused on charter but allows new
opportunities or issues.
3. Test cases created on the fly and progress is
recorded.

11. Session Based Testing
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• Report:
• Debrief:
• Parsing Result:
- Charter
- Areas tested
- Notes on how testing conducted
- List of new bugs found
- List of issues
- Input Data used
- % time spent
- Session start time and duration
- Tester Name
Short discussion between manager (PO) &
tester(s) about session and session reports.
Standardized session report used to parse and
store the result as aggregate data for reporting
and metrics.
Allows reporting on number of sessions per
area, breakdown of time spent on testing, bug
investigation, setup and other activities.

12. A Low Tech Testing Dashboard
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• Problem is:
Questions
• what is the status of testing?
• What are you doing today?
• When will be you finished?
• Why is it taking so long?
• Have you tested ____ this?
Management
thinking
• Testing is assumed to be continuous.
• Testing is considered a linear,
independent task.
• Test results are assumed to stay valid.
• Test Metrics are hard to interpret
• Impatient for detailed test status
reporting

13. A Low Tech Testing Dashboard
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• Solution is:
 Report test cycle progress in a simple, structured way
 … shows progress towards goal.
 … manages expectations
 … and inspires support
 …. for an effective test process.
Product Areas
Test Effort
Test Coverage
Quality Assessment
Time

14. A Low Tech Testing Dashboard
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1. High level areas of
equal values, no sub
areas.
2. Minimize overlap.
3. Must “make sense”
4. Inclusive of everything
reasonably testable
• None
• Start
• Low
• High
• Pause
• Blocked
• Go Live
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1. Red
2. Green
3. Gold

15. References and Further Reading
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1) Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
By Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
2) www.satisfice.com/
3) http://www.teatimewithtesters.com/

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