Testing: Chances and Challenges in an agile World

Testing im Wandel Neue Herausforderungen und Chancen in einer agilen Welt Jonas Bandi Software Architect TechTalk jonas.bandi@techtalk.ch blog.jonasbandi.net www.techtalk.ch twitter.com/jbandi Thursday, November 5, 2009

"We're still ﬁguring this stuff out. All of us." - Jay Fields Thoughts on developer Testing: http://blog.jayfields.com/2009/02/thoughts-on- developer-testing.html Thursday, November 5, 2009

My point of view • Software Architect at TechTalk • TechTalk is a software development and consulting company with ~60 people located in Vienna, Budapest and Zürich. • The main business is building custom IT solutions for clients in Austria and Switzerland. • Projects of TechTalk involve development efforts of up to several thousand person days and team sizes of up to ten persons. Thursday, November 5, 2009

Once upon a time... ... in the golden Age of the Waterfall. Thursday, November 5, 2009

... and they lived happily ever after! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Welcome to the real world! Thursday, November 5, 2009

... the golden age is over! Thursday, November 5, 2009

What did really change? 49% 24% 23% 44% 32% 28% sucessful challenged failed 2000 2008 Project success Chaos Report, Standish Group Thursday, November 5, 2009

What is the problem? Thursday, November 5, 2009

There are many! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Focus: Requirements Thursday, November 5, 2009

What deﬁnes success? Software development is about delivering business value! Thursday, November 5, 2009

What is being used? 19% 16% Never Seldom 13% Occasionally 45% 7% Often Always CHAOS Report 2000, Standish Group Thursday, November 5, 2009

Providing Business Value? • Only 20% of all delivered features are actually used? • Something is wrong! • We can proﬁt tremendously when we improve in requirements gathering and in transporting them successfully to the implementation Thursday, November 5, 2009

Where Errors are introduced Requirements 27% Design 56% Code 7% Other 10% Source: James Martin, An Information Systems Manifesto Thursday, November 5, 2009

Fighting Errors? • Traditional Developer Testing focuses on code and maybe design • Testing requirements is hardly ever a topic • We can proﬁt tremendously when we improve in requirements gathering. Thursday, November 5, 2009

Detailgrad Vision Verständnisgrenze Actor/Stakeholder Lastenheft Pflichtenheft Designdokument Kein Feedback von Stakeholdern möglich! Code Manual Test Automated „Usage“ Test Zeit Waterfall Project Thursday, November 5, 2009

Costs to ﬁx defects rise exponentially over time The longer a defect stays in the development process, the more expensive it is to ﬁx Thursday, November 5, 2009

Agile to the rescue! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Detailgrad Verständnisgrenze Actor/Stakeholder Actor/ Business Vision Stakeholder Projektstart goals goals Product Epics Stories Backlog Sprint Planning Preparation Sprint Acceptance Sprint 1-n Stories Sprint Planning Backlog Criteria Sprint Implementation Acceptance Kurze Feedbackzyklen Test Definition mit Stakeholdern Code Manual Test/ Automated Demo Test Zeit Iterative Project Thursday, November 5, 2009

The beneﬁts • Constant feedback and priorization by the Stakeholder 19%16% • Build those features that are 45% 7% 13% needed and useful • Features have a much shorter 27% through-put time 7% • Allows validation of requirements 56% 10% Thursday, November 5, 2009

Wait... ... isn’t this presentation supposed to be about testing? Thursday, November 5, 2009

"I believe that the hardest part of software projects, the most common source of project failure, is communication with the customers and users of that software." - Martin Fowler, DSL Book Thursday, November 5, 2009

It is all about communication! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Verständnisgrenze Actor/Stakeholder Actor/ Business Vision Stakeholder Projektstart goals goals Product Epics Stories Backlog Sprint Planning Preparation Sprint Acceptance Sprint 1-n Stories Sprint Planning Backlog Criteria Sprint Implementation Acceptance Kurze Feedbackzyklen Test „Vertrauenswürdige Definition mit Stakeholdern Code Kommunikation“ Manual Test/ Automated Demo Test Zeit Enable communication Thursday, November 5, 2009

How? Thursday, November 5, 2009

Catch bugs in requirements! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Thursday, November 5, 2009 Cost RE Analysis & Design Requirements Engineering Implementation Testing Deployment Analysis & Design Implementation Time Testing RE Analysis & Design Implementation Deployment Testing Deployment

How? Thursday, November 5, 2009

Now... ... ﬁnally testing! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Requirements == Tests “As formality increases, tests and requirements become indistinguishable. At the limit, tests and requirements are equivalent.” - Equivalence hypothesis, Robert C. Martin • Traditionally this is not recognized because RE and Testing are set up as different disciplines • But they are about the same: how the system is used • Wouldn’t it make sense to leverage some synergies? Thursday, November 5, 2009

Ideally Tests ... • … describe what the system should do • … are business readable • … establish a common vocabulary • … capture a shared set of examples • … enable communication • … are bound to the implementation • … are executable ... express shared understanding Thursday, November 5, 2009

Building a shared understanding - Scripts - Test Data Mapping - Acceptance Criteria Business Business - Speciﬁcation - Scripts Tester Tester - Use Cases - Test Data - User Stories - Acceptance Criteria Shared ? - Speciﬁcation Understanding - Use Cases Mapping - User Stories - Code Mapping - Code - Unit Tests - Unit Tests - Test Data - Test Data Developer Developer Thursday, November 5, 2009

Finding a common abstraction Shared Business Developer Tester Understanding Business Tester Developer Thursday, November 5, 2009

Shared Understanding • Terminology and abstractions of business • Concrete enough for developers • Business readable • Bound to implementation • Consistent Thursday, November 5, 2009

Speciﬁcation by example • Abstract requirements and speciﬁcations are not a good tool for communication. Real-life examples are much better. • We mostly communicate by examples • Usually examples are not formalized and not shared Thursday, November 5, 2009

Examples • Enable developers and testers to communicate efﬁciently with business people • Provide enough information for developers to implement and for testers to verify • Realistic examples contain precise information and ask for precise answers • Are a way to test speciﬁcations! Thursday, November 5, 2009

A new tool! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Agile Acceptance Testing Acceptance Test Driven Development Behavior Driven Development Thursday, November 5, 2009

Demo Thursday, November 5, 2009

Agile: new challenges! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Challenges • Effort • Regression • Deﬁnition of Done • Streaming Requirements • Agile Planing • Authoritative Source of Information Thursday, November 5, 2009

Effort Thursday, November 5, 2009

Effort • Potentially shippable software each iteration • Testing everything each iteration • A lot of iterations -> a lot to test! • Consequence: Automation is a must! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Regression Thursday, November 5, 2009

Regression • Potentially shippable software each iteration • High velocity, changes are embraced • How to guarantee quality? • Consequence: Automation is a must! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Deﬁnition of Done Thursday, November 5, 2009

Definition of Done • When are we finished? • Testing is an integral part of the development process and not a separate discipline • Implementation and testing have to work together on a fine grained level • There has to be an efficient communication between implementation and testing • Consequence: Relation between implementation and testing has to be redefined! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Streaming Requirements Thursday, November 5, 2009

Streaming Requirements • Not all of the requirements are delivered upfront • Requirements are delivered just in time • Incrementally reveal details just-in-time • Pull instead of push • Embrace Change • Consequence: Requirements providers (stakeholders) must ﬁnd a new way to deliver requirements Thursday, November 5, 2009

Agile Planning Thursday, November 5, 2009

Agile Planning • Goal-driven instead of scope-driven • How to plan something when the scope is uncertain? • Managing changes and uncertainty • You don’t know what can be tested when... • Consequence: Testers and developers have to interact on a ﬁne grained and self organized level Thursday, November 5, 2009

Authoritative Source of Information Thursday, November 5, 2009

Authoritative Source of Information • Avoid excessive, disconnected artifacts. The source code is the artifact that ultimately matters. • No specification, no documentation doesn’t work either! • Communication is more important than documentation • But people as the only source of information is not an option • Consequence: Find a way for efficient specifications and documentation that is connected to the source code. Thursday, November 5, 2009

"We're still ﬁguring this stuff out. All of us." - Jay Fields Thoughts on developer Testing: http://blog.jayfields.com/2009/02/thoughts-on- developer-testing.html Thursday, November 5, 2009

Müssen Entwickler Braucht es noch Tester? jetzt Testen? JA! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Entwickler... • Bindet Beispiele and die Implementierung • Worauf gebunden wird ist ﬂexibel! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Tester ... • Bringen Beispiele in eine testbare Form • Kollaboration mit Stakeholders • Mindestens ein Beispiel pro Feature • Economy of Scale • Entwickeln die Tessprache • Nutzung auch für manuelle Tests Thursday, November 5, 2009

Manuelle Tests ... • Zur Validierung von Main-Flows und Integration • Demo an Stakeholder • Geringere Anzahl • Unterstützt durch „Testsprache“ • Automatisierung aufwändiger! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Aufwand? • Ca. 15% des Gesamtaufwands für Testspeziﬁkation -> 1 Tester versorgt 6-7 Entwickler • Entwickler: 10-25% Aufwand für Binding -> Synergien Thursday, November 5, 2009

Wartbarkeit? • Richtiger Abstraktionsgrad • Wiederverwendbarkeit von Bindings • Ebene der Bindings Thursday, November 5, 2009

Why are tests important? "Nothing makes a system more flexible than a comprehensive suite of tests! Far above good architecture and good design!" - Robert C. Martin, Oredev, 2008 http://archive.oredev.org/topmenu/video/keynotebobmartin.4.5a2d30d411ee6ffd28880002007.html Thursday, November 5, 2009

Testing is more than QA! • Regression Tests enable change • TDD: Drive the design through tests • Tests are examples that enable customer interaction • Tests are examples that can be the specification • Tests are examples that document the system • ATDD: Drive the specification through acceptance tests • Tests can be the definition of ‘done’ Thursday, November 5, 2009

The Topic is Hot! www.cukes.info www.concordion.net www.fitnesse.org www.specflow.org JBehave / NBehave http://studios.thoughtworks.com/agile-test-automation Thursday, November 5, 2009

Resources The RSpec Agile Testing Book Bridging the communication gap Thursday, November 5, 2009

BDD is a Mindset not a Tool! Thursday, November 5, 2009

Viel Erfolg beim Einsatz von Behavior Driven Development und Agilen Akzeptanztests! Jonas Bandi Software Architect TechTalk jonas.bandi@techtalk.ch blog.jonasbandi.net www.techtalk.ch twitter.com/jbandi Thursday, November 5, 2009

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