This document discusses agile testing and the role of an agile testing coach. It emphasizes that agile testing is a mindset that involves rethinking software testing and focusing on automated testing, continuous integration, and testing as a team. An agile testing coach helps the team choose and automate acceptance tests, coaches developers in testing techniques, and thinks about tests that will go into continuous integration. The coach acts as a facilitator rather than a manager, sharing accomplishments and giving testers freedom to perform exploratory testing.

1. Agile
Testing
Coach
The quality culture in
the company’s core
business
By Walmyr Filho
Software Engineer @appear.in

2. What’s Agile Testing?

3. It’s a mindset
it’s a different way of thinking about testing
it’s about re-thinking software testing

4. The tester in the XP discipline helps the customer to choose and write
acceptance tests, to automate them. He or she serves also as a coach
developer in software testing techniques. He or she is not responsible for finding
trivial bugs, this being responsibility from the developers themselves. He or she
doesn’t work isolated, instead, it’s part of the team. He or she thinks in the
tests that will go to CI, and help developers in pair to solve issues.
D.Wildt, D.Moura, G. Lacerda & R.Helm, XP - daily practices for software development

5. talkingabouttesting.com

6. TRADITIONAL
AGILE

18. We value
automated tests
over
manual tests

19. Testing
quadrants
Focus in the business
Focus in the technology
Supportsthedevelopment
Critiquestheproduct
Q2 Q3
Q1 Q4
- Unit tests
- Component tests
- Functional tests
- Wireframes
- Simulations
- Acceptance tests
- Usability tests
- Exploratory tests
- Performance tests
- Load tests
- Security tests
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20. Testing pyramid
ui
UNIT
SERVICE
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21. bug
FILTER
Any bug can get here
only bugs not reducible by unit
testing get here
only bugs irreducible by unit OR
integration tests get here
only the most subtle bugs reach
here
Only functionally undetectable bugs make it
to production!
Manual
UI
Integration
Unit
Infinite set of
possible known
bugs

22. TEST
MANAGER
TEST
COACH
Says “I”
Uses people
Does micromanaging
Is not willing to change
Takes credits
Is tied to a strict test schedule
Works with a traditional approach to testing
Considers test execution outside the scope
Restricts the team to execute pre-defined test
cases
Acts like manager
Says “We”
Coachs people
Does not micromanaging
Is open to new ideas
Shares the team accomplishments
Motivates the team to work together
Develops an amplified testing mindset
Executes test with the team whenever possible
Gives testers freedom to perform exploratory testing
Acts like someone responsible for organizing the test
effort, not in charge of the team.

23. If you want to be an agile testing coach
Have in mind that your role
MUST has a due date
Tip

24. Here are
some practices
to experiment

25. Rotate
between
projects

26. Create a test base
to be maintained
by the team

27. Pair programming &
Pair testing

28. Code review

30. Refactoring

31. RED
GREENREFACTOR
( 1 )
( 2 )( 3 )

32. Continuous integration/delivery pipeline

34. “Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.”

35. Coding dojos

36. Testimonials

37. "Before understanding the importance of automated tests it was like more work,
but after using tests to guide me on the development, I could think better in the
software architecture to solve problems and feel safety during the deployments"
~@marioLopez
"Having a coach that helps me to develop software with quality in mind gave me
more confidence than someone just testing and pointing my errors and mistakes”
@edmargomes
"The automated tests made more sense to me in the moment I needed to refactor
an important part in the application, and today I feel good that doing a big refactoring
will not compromise my weekend, because I know things are being constantly tested
=)"
~@troll

40. Conclusion

41. Agile testing is about people working as a team
to develop software with quality, independent of
roles, whether testers or developers.

42. Walmyr Lima e Silva Filho
about.me/walmyr-filho
wlsf82@gmail.com
@walmyrlimaesilv
Thank you!