Agile tour ncr test360_degree - agile testing on steroids

Agile Testing on Steroids
Agile Tour 2010
Vipul Gupta
Testing Evangelist
www.impetus.com
Sanjay Sharma
Technical Evangelist
www.impetus.com

what we will talk
Today

state of
productdevelopment

product testing challenges
their solutions

product testing
a next generation platform

product testing
q&a and open discussion

becoming increasingly complex
due to new technologies
Stateof product development

due to increasing environments

due to demanding enterprise mobility solution

due to diverse codebase

due to agile

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What is a million dollar question that comes to your mind when you come to work everyday?

are we doing the right thing
right way?
Challenges in product testing

is my testing team doing…
enough testing?

wish I had more budget to
test more..

shall I look for
partners?

Scope
Manual – UI, Functional,
Integration, System & Ad-hoc
Non-Functional
Elementary Product Testing
Crude
Product Testing
Level 1 - Illusive
Scope
Manual – UAT &
Non-Functional
Classic Automation –
Functional
Scope
Ad-hoc Testing
Essential Product Testing
Level 2 - Primitive
Scope
Manual – Strategic Non
Functional
Planned Automation –
Functional & Non-Functional
Streamlined Product Testing
KEY TESTING ACTIVITIES
Level 3 - Reflexive
Strategy
Plan
Implement & Execute
Maintenance
Monitor
Measure
Scope
E2E Automation
E2T Automation
Continuous Improvement
Progressive Product Testing
Level 4 - Systematic
Level 5 - Comprehensive
Test Engineering Maturity Model

A Pragmatic Approach

integrated
toolsets and practices
Philosophy behind

remove
subjectivity and ambiguities from decision making process
Philosophy behind

think testing
leave implementation worries
Philosophy behind

‘Adapt’
rather than ‘Replace’
Philosophy behind

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Source Code Mgmt
Requirement
Project
Estimation
Automated Management
CI environment + Code Metrics/ Coverage, Violations drilldown, Time machine, Quick wins
Test cases
TDD
Iterations / Sprints
Development
Dev environment (provide architecture, tools, IDE, reusable API)
Release
Testing
TaskMgmt
Defect Mgmt
PIT/ELT- parallel independent/End of lifecycle testing
User Mgmt
Legend
Test 360- core UI
Test 360- core non UI
Test 360-manual
Internals

informal process
enforcement
Advantages of

enables fact based
test prioritization
Advantages of

comprehensive and independent
testing view
Advantages of

enables fact based informed
go/no go decisions
Advantages of

All round traceability-
->Requirements->Code->Defects ->Test cases->Sprint->Tasks->
unravel hidden aspects
Advantages of

acts as an informal collaboration platform
to channelize communication between teams
Advantages of

uses right mix of
manual & automation methods
Advantages of

leads to
matured software testing
Advantages of

Thank You

Agile tour ncr test360_degree - agile testing on steroids

by Vipul Gupta on Oct 31, 2010

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