This document summarizes a presentation on agile testing anti-patterns and rescue strategies. It discusses common problems like silos between teams, lack of automation, discontinuous integration, poor test architecture/structure, duplication, and bad coding practices. It provides examples of good vs bad code for page objects and waiting for elements. The presentation emphasizes building unit tests, inverting the test pyramid, avoiding dependencies, and using page object modeling for maintainable tests. It concludes with references and image sources for further reading.

1. Again
on
21st
October
2013
|
Hotel
Savera,
Chennai
Agile
Tes)ng
An)-­‐Pa.erns
&
Rescue
Strategies
by
Karthik
Sirasanagandla
Agile
Coach
Independent
Consultant
|
Industrial
Logic
Next
Genera*on
Tes*ng
Conference
(c)

2. What do you expect out of this
session?
Is anyone having a painful story to
share?

3. The Rescue Strategies..
The Details That Go Awry...
The Big Things That Go Wrong..

4. The Big Things That Go Wrong!

5. It’s So SCARY!!!

6. • Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be
understood. -- Marie Curie
– You’re not afraid to try again, you’re just afraid of
getting hurt.
• In Everyday Scripting with Ruby, Brian Marick
advises to learn to program by writing one.
#FailProof
• Learn By Doing

7. Quiz: Guess the reason for this!

8. Silos
QA
Manager
...
Scrum Master
Developer

9. Results Over Reasoning

10. • Cost: Manual Versus Automation
• Business Value of Deliverable
• Automate Everything That Is Repeatable

11. Discontinuous Integration

12. CI in Progress

13. What’s Your Test Architecture?

17. Quiz Time
• What is the wolf that can huff and puff your hay stack in
your test pyramid?
• What is the wolf that can break your wooden stack in
your test pyramid?
• Who is the wolf that can break you brick stack in your
test pyramid?
• What is the moral of the story? Just build unit
tests???

18. Old Is Gold

19. One Huge Monolithic Test Suite

20. The Details That Go Awry!
www.unicomlearning.com

21. I Love Se IDE

22. X-Path Rocks

23. Where’re The Page Objects?

24. Page-Object Littered With Assertions

25. Bad Code
#my_target_page.rb
def verify_edit_link_presence
//BAD: Assertion in Page-Object
has_link?("Edit").should be_true
end
#my_target_spec
it "blah blah blah"
@my_target_page.do_some_action
@my_target_page.verify_edit_link_presence
end

26. Good Code
#my_target_page.rb
def has_edit_link?
has_link?("Edit")
end
#my_target_spec
it "blah blah blah"
@my_target_page.do_some_action
@my_target_page.has_edit_link?.should
be_true
end

27. I love to sleep

28. Scenario To Code: Good Versus Bad
As a user
I should be able to add notes to the table
so that the information is recorded for future reference.
def add_and_save_notes notes
fill_in("my_target_text_box", :with => notes)
click_button "Save" # This makes an AJAX request and
adds new row to the table upon successfully saving
sleep(3) #<-- This is BAD code.
end
def add_and_save_notes notes
...
wait_until { has_text?(notes) } #<-- This is GOOD
practice that enables test stability and hence faith in
test results
end

29. Asserting message for exactness
• #my_target_spec.rb
describe "save notes" do
it "should add notes as new row to table upon successful save" do
notes = "sample notes"
expected_update_message = "Your note is added successfully!"
@my_target_page. add_and_save_notes notes
@my_target_page.update_message.should == expected_update_message
end
end
Why measure
exactness???

30. Duplication makes life easy

31. Long live dead code!!!

32. Rescue Strategies

33. Didn’t we discuss about it all the way?
...Do you want to know anything more?

34. References Resources
• Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet
Gregory
• http://patrickwilsonwelsh.com/
• http://kartzontech.blogspot.in/
• http://blogs.agilefaqs.com/2011/02/01/
inverting-the-testing-pyramid/
• Everyday scripting with Ruby for Teams,
Testers and You.

35. Images Sources:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/122440
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philipbitnar/3194364095/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/3331240051/in/photostream/
http://www.synnovatia.com/business-coaching-blog/bid/132417/Getting-Past-Your-Fears-and-Growing-a-Successful-Business
http://www.global-integration.com/cartoons/silos/
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/reasoning/club/
http://www.freefoto.com/preview/904-22-3505/White-clouds-and-blue-sky
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nagesh_kamath/4714936714/
http://blogs.agilefaqs.com/2011/02/01/inverting-the-testing-pyramid/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/w9ned/3958782404/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selenium_IDE.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XPath_example.svg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/betobaibich/266557188/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Littering_in_Stockholm.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray_paper_bag_with_sad_smiley_over_head.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/byronpeebles/3337412761/in/photostream/
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-24930799
http://www.flickr.com/photos/asterix611/5120445522/in/photostream/
http://philby.deviantart.com/art/Threatening-Behaviour-lines-72724012
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html
Karthik Sirasanagandla
Agile | Lean Coach
@kartzontech