Agile Testing Quadrants Explained

Agile Testing Quadrants Explainedby @rubytester Customer Facing Customer Facing Support Tests Critique Tests Customer Facing Developer Facing Support Tests Critique Tests

On the left: Let’s write some tests that ‘support’ our building of product. Tests that illustrate, clarify, reassure how software should behave*Disclaimer: Not actual tests, just an illustration

On the right: Let’s write some tests that ‘critique’ productTest that find omissions, mistakes, incorrect assumptions

support critique From left to right we build tests that move from ‘support’ to ‘critique’ Let’s call this support/critique dimension tests can occupy

Customer Facing Tests Who is the audience?support critique What matters to them? How are tests different for them? Developer Facing Tests

Customer Facing modifycreate secure One layer of functionality that matters

Customer FacingMany LayersFor BothCustomer and Developer Developer Facing

Customer FacingMany Layers from common, shared layer up, up, upcloser to Customer Worldoften seen by Developers as The World Of Endless Meetings, Memos andReports Developer Facing

And from common, shared layerdown closer to Developer Worldoften seen by Customers as The World Of Endless lines with commas,semicolons, curly brackets, square brackets,dots and blinking lights 101011100011100011111

Beautiful Mess Of Software Testing

Customer Facing Support Tests

Customer Facing Support TestsDeveloper Facing Support Tests

Customer Facing Customer Facing Support Tests Critique TestsDeveloper Facing Support Tests

Customer Facing Customer Facing Support Tests Critique TestsDeveloper Facing Developer Facing Support Tests Critique Tests

Agile Testing Quadrants Explained by @rubytester Customer Facing Customer Facing Support Tests Critique Tests Developer Facing Developer Facing Support Tests Critique Tests

Original by Brian Marickhttp://www.exampler.com/old-blog/2003/08/22/#agile-testing-project-2

As seen in ‘Agile Testing: The Book’ by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory http://agiletester.ca/

Agile Testing Quadrants Explained by @rubytester http://sketch.odopod.com/sketches/562278

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