Presentation from XP Days Ukraine 2012 in Kiev (November 2012) about testing practices in Agile processes.

1. Agile Testing by Example
Andrii Dzynia & Mikalai Alimenkou
@xpinjection & @adzynia
16.11.2012

3. Andrii Dzynia
Test Engineer/Consultant/Trainer
http://adzynia.com

4. Lets take Scrum as Agile process

5. WTF?!?
WHERE IS
TESTING???

6. Agenda
Planning
Development
Code Review
Testing
Demo

7. Sprint Planning Development Code Review Testing Demo
User
Story
Planning is essential activity for everybody in Agile team
I. PLANNING

8. Simple User Story
As a Veterinarian
I want to find Pet Owner by last name
To contact him directly

9. Planning poker for whole team
http://xpinjection.com/2012/06/21/one-day-from-tester-life-planning-poker/

10. DEMO TIME!

11. Story planning in Agile
Customer Whole team
Acceptance
+ Criteria
Customer QA engineer
Acceptance Behavior
+ Tests Samples
Whole team
Functional Unit Integration
Tests Tests Tests

12. Questions from tester Optimistic developer
Differences in
Acceptance Criteria
estimations
“How we gonna test
this?”

13. Sprint Planning Development Code Review Testing Demo
User
Story
Development is shared activity in Agile team
II. DEVELOPMENT

14. First define what to do

15. DEMO TIME!

16. Collaboration for better Developer helps with
results implementation details
Developer runs UI test
to check his core
implementation

17. Sprint Planning Development Code Review Testing Demo
User
Story
All code should be reviewed by another team member
III. CODE REVIEW

18. Code without review is a bomb

19. DEMO TIME!

20. Developer helps tester
All code should be
with reusable
reviewed
components
Measure and check
code coverage

21. Sprint Planning Development Code Review Testing Demo
User
Story
Testing should be done in Agile team as well, but differently
IV. TESTING

22. Manual testing is also important

23. DEMO TIME!

24. Prepare functional
Testing sessions
map
Make notes during
Use video recorder
testing
Heuristics

25. Sprint Planning Development Code Review Testing Demo
User
Story
The main goal of the demo in Agile team is accepting work done
V. DEMO

26. Demo is a team activity in Agile

27. DEMO TIME!

28. Comments for future
improvements
Showing acceptance tests run
on demo

31. is based on
continuous
improvement

32. Useful links
• http://www.thucydides.info/ - official Thucydides
website
• https://github.com/thucydides-webtests - project on
GitHub

33. me@adzynia.com
http://adzynia.com
@adzynia
@xpinjection
http://xpinjection.com
mikalai.alimenkou@xpinjection.com