EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2013 presentation on Take Control Of The Process by Amy Phillips. See more at: http://conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/

1. Take control of the process
Amy Phillips, Songkick
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2. Take Control of the Process
Amy Phillips

4.  Don’t break anything critical
 Avoid unnecessary delays
 Clearly defined roles and responsibilities
 Reliable build and release processes

5. Coding Ready to
commit
Automated
checks and
build
Testing Deployed
to
Production

6. Problem
Increase
pre-release
checks
Release

7. Have a vision

8. Developers Testers

9. Developers Testers
Automated Checks
Unit Tests
Feature Tests
Integration Tests Manual Checks
Regression Tests

10. Team Effort 100 %

11. Coding Ready to
commit
Automated
checks and
build
Testing Deployed
to
Production

12. Coding Ready to
commit
Automated
checks and
build
Testing Deployed
to
Production
Testing

13. Testing Testing
Coding Ready to
commit
Automated
checks and
build
Testing
Checks
Deployed
to
Production

16.  Make the checks fast
◦ < 10 minutes to complete
 Checks must run locally
 Run tests in the most sensible order

17.  Never release if the build is red
 Green builds must mean the tests have passed

18. Performing the
right tests
at the right time
Automated build
and
deploy process
Continuous
Deployment

19. Code Build Check Release
Code
Checks
Testing
Machine Checks
Build
Machine Checks Deploy
Human Test

20. 140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Releases

21.  Everyone cares about testing
 Fast and maintained automated checks
 Bug fixes often take just minutes

22.  Agree on an end goal
 Stay risk focussed
 Strong communication throughout the whole team
 Use problems to drive positive change
Testers already have these skills

23. By managing the people and activities which
make up the development process we can
manage the risk level of a release.
Testing provides information to this process,
which makes better-informed decisions
possible.