If you’ve shifted left and right so many times, I imagine it’s hard to remember where you started from? The direction of shift was always within a Test Managers gift, but wasn’t obvious. It’s time to shift towards testability. Ash Winter, Principal Test Engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming covers the following: ⦁ examples of the benefits of an enhanced testability focus ⦁ how focusing on testability can keep Test Managers relevant in changing times ⦁ introduction of a holistic model of testability to expand thinking ⦁ brainstorming – how can test leaders contribute to a testability culture? Ash said: “I believe that testability and organisational success are linked. Testable systems are easier to support and maintain. Being able to observe and control systems is a unifying force across disciplines. Why would one not wish to focus on such benefits?" TestBoss is an award winning invitation-only networking event for leaders in Test Management, hosted by IT recruitment specialist Corecom Consulting.

1. Welcome
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2. Schedule for this evening
● 6.00pm - Networking
● 6.30pm - Welcome and Introduction: Rick Hughes, Corecom Consulting
● 6.40pm – How will I Survive a DevOps Transformation? Ash Winter, Principle
Test Engineer, Sky Betting & Gaming
● 7.10pm - Buffet and Refreshments
● 7.30pm - Lightning Discussions
● 8.00pm - Networking
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3. How will I Survive a DevOps
Transformation?
Ash Winter, Principal Test Engineer at Sky
Betting & Gaming
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4. “The most dangerous strategy is
to jump a chasm in two leaps.” ~
Benjamin Disraeli

5. Ash Winter
Short stuff
here:
@northern_tester
Long stuff here:

6. Pop Quiz Hotshots
• DevOps
journey?
• DevOps team?
• Just a fad?
• Barely get
Scrum going,
never mind
getting Ops
involved?
Help. Anyone.

7. Shift Testability!

8. Lets talk about…
• The Great
Tragedy
• The Three
Ways
• Defend the
Indefensible
• Testability
and DevOps

9. The Great Tragedy
• Act 1 – Ops
and flaky
artefacts
• Act 2 –
Missed
commitments
beget insane
commitments

10. The Great Tragedy
• Act 3 –
deadlines +
feature
factory =
fragility
• Act 4 – Dev
and Ops in
open
conflict

11. DevOps is born…

12. The Three Ways
• Systems
Thinking
• Amplify
Feedback
• Experimen
t & learn

13. Hang on, isn’t that
testing?
• Impact AND
implementatio
n
• Information
to those who
matter
• Hypothesis
Driven

14. Holy shit, testing is
everywhere in DevOps!
Thank you Dan Ashby.

15. Defend the Indefensible
• So if testing
is everywhere,
why are we told
that its dead
or dying?
• Half Arsed
DevOps
• Empathy
• Statement in
each group,
defend it!

16. So what's your problem?
• Weak testing
paradigm
• Passing on stale
practice
• Reactive,
resistant mind set
• Fixated on where
testers test
• Hard to test? More
testing…
• Over-estimate what
testing can
achieve

17. Yes you, Test Manager.
• Under use of Production
as an oracle
• Persistent Test
environments
• Feature factories
• Capacity over capability
• Automation of tests not
in testing
• Importing knowledge
• Accepting large batches
of work
• I’ll stop now, you
probably get it…

18. Think Testability!
• Observe
• Control
• Understand
• Testable ==
Supportable
• Useful to all
not just Dev
and Ops!

20. Heuristics of
Software Testability

21. 3 is the magic number…
• For each, in
groups
• 3 benefits of
better
testability
• 3 costs of poor
testability
• 3 ways of
improving
• Volunteers to
reflect

22. Think about the great
innovations and models used in
testing. Historically, they
don’t come from testers. Are we,
as test leaders, doing enough to
justify our continued existence?
End

23. Buffet and Refreshments
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24. Lightning Discussions
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25. Andrew Palmer, Head of Quality – Iliad
Solutions Ltd
“When managing a large testing team, how much
should you be concerned with informal conversations
and how much should you focus on vision and
mission statements?”
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Question:

26. Garry Buckle, Test & Deployment Manager -
NHS England Corporate ICT Team
“How would you approach missing aspects of a supplier
Test Strategy when coming into a project at a late
stage, especially when there is pressure from all parties
to meet a delivery date?”
Question:
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27. David Ogden, Test Manager –
PeoplePlus
“What makes a good test strategy?”
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Question:

29. Thank you
#TestBoss
@CorecomIT
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