A Right and a Wrong Way to Lead a Testing Effort by Erik Davis

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The document discusses best practices for leading a testing effort, including maintaining a small, nimble team structure with mixed experience levels and servant leaders. It emphasizes the importance of trust, communication across teams, willingness to change, and allowing autonomy while solving problems intelligently. When these factors are in place, the testing effort will be led in the right way and adapt effectively to organizational and technical context.

Technology

A Right and a Wrong Way to
Lead a Testing Effort

• ~19 years in testing
• Variety of roles
• Lots of projects
Hi, I’m Erik

A Right and a Wrong Way to
Lead a Testing Effort
Better Worse

Willingness to Change
http://www.hrwiki.org/

Communication
Test Dev Ops
Dev
Test
Dev
Ops

Communication
Team A Team B Team C
Test
Test
Test
Test

Communication
Team A Team B Team C
Test
Test
Test
Test
Dev

Team Dynamics
Test
Test
Dev
Dev
Dev
Test
Dev
Ops

Deﬁnition of Quality
Test
Test
Test
Test
Dev
Test
Dev
Ops

Who Tests
Test
Test
Test
Test
Dev
Test
Ops
Test

Who Devs
Dev
Dev
Dev
Dev
Dev
Test
Dev
Ops

Who Ops
Ops
Ops
Ops
Ops
Dev
Test
Ops
Ops
Ops isn’t a verb

Test Team ooh, look, the color changed…
I think we’re ﬁnally in the testing bucket
NOTICE
JUNIORS 
ONLY
MIDSSENIORS

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Tester Skill
Performance
Automation in Testing
Mobile
REST end points
Security
Exploratory Testing
APIs
UI/UX
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In Summary
If your org or group is small or nimble enough, isn’t buried under
structure, is led by servant leaders who adjust their leadership style to
the individuals needs, has autonomy to make their own decisions (within
reason), is trusted to do the right things, is surrounded by a willingness
to accept change, communicates with others, across teams and
disciplines, intelligently uses tools, is made up of individuals with mixed
experience levels who are willing to question others about the system
and can adjust their testing to ﬁt the needs and risks of the current
context, you’re leading your testing eﬀort the right way.

Thanks!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Erik Davis
me@erikld.com
@erikld
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