Testing As An Activity

1. TESTING AS AN ACTIVITY AND WHY WE ALL NEED TO LET GO A LITTLE… © Stephen Janaway 2014

2. WHO AM I? STEPHEN JANAWAY • Testing for the last 14 years. • Mobile phones, mobile networks, mobile applications, web and web services. • Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Net-a-Porter Group. www.stephenjanaway.co.uk @stephenjanaway © Stephen Janaway 2014

3. THANKS TO…. • Elisabeth Hendrickson. • Ben Kelly. • James Bach. • Jerry Weinberg. • Michael Bolton. • And many more…. © Stephen Janaway 2014

4. WHAT IS AN ACTIVITY? ac·tiv·i·ty 1. The state of being active. 2. Energetic action or movement; liveliness. 3. • A specified pursuit in which a person partakes. • An educational process or procedure intended to stimulate learning through actual experience. 4. The intensity of a radioactive source. 5. The ability to take part in a chemical reaction. © Stephen Janaway 2014

5. WHY? THE WORLD IS CHANGING © Stephen Janaway 2014

6. “TESTERS TEST AND PROGRAMMERS CODE” © Stephen Janaway 2014

7. TESTING VS. CHECKING © Stephen Janaway 2014

8. HOW DID WE GET HERE? 1958 - First software test team (Weinberg) - Project Mercury. 1968 - NATO report mentions Software Quality Assurance. 1968 - “Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs” - Edsger Dijkstra. 1976 - Software Reliability, Principles and Practices (Myers) published. 1979 - The Art of Software Testing (Myers) published. 1982 - Out of the Crisis (Deming)- “Quality must be defined in terms of customer satisfaction”. 1988 - Exploratory testing introduced (Kaner). 1996 - Heuristic Test Strategy Model (Bach). 1999 - Context-Driven Testing (Bach a.o.) - 'The value of any practice depends on its context'. 2001 - Agile Manifesto is published.. 2002 - Test-Driven Development (Beck) - Test Driven Development: By Example. 2009 - Testing vs. Checking (Bolton). A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOFTWARE TESTING WWW.TESTINGREFERENCES.COM/TESTINGHISTORY.PHP

9. SOFTWARE RELIABILITY: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES (MYERS) “The goal of the testers is to make the program fail” “Developers shouldn’t ever test their own code” © Stephen Janaway 2014

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11. HOW HAS THAT MADE US FEEL? © Stephen Janaway 2014

12. AUTOMATION – A PERSONAL STORY © Stephen Janaway 2014

13. TESTING AS AN ACTIVITY © Stephen Janaway 2014

14. IT’S ALL ABOUT COLLABORATION • Using the right people to do the right things. • Pairing. • Training. • Supporting. • Shared responsibility. • NOT BEING THE QUALITY POLICE. © Stephen Janaway 2014

15. TESTERS DO NOT OWN QUALITY © Stephen Janaway 2014

16. SO WHAT’S STOPPING US? © Stephen Janaway 2014

24. QUESTIONS “THERE IS AN (UNFORTUNATE) BELIEF THAT TESTERS TEST, PROGRAMMERS CODE, AND THE SEPARATION OF THE TWO DISCIPLINES IS IMPORTANT...” ELISABETH HENDRICKSON STEPHEN JANAWAY @stephenjanaway www.stephenjanaway.co.uk © Stephen Janaway 2014