EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2008 presentation on Traditional QA meets Agile Development by Dietmar Strasser. See more at conferences.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/past-presentations/

1. Traditional Testing meets
Agile Development
Dietmar Strasser
Director QA, Lifecycle Quality Management
dietmar.strasser@borland.com

2. Agenda
Journey towards an Agile Team
Our Environment we live in
How do we provide Visibility?
Q & A

3. Journey towards an Agile Team

4. Confidential
Starting Point
SilkPerformer
Developers
Test Manager
Developers
SilkTest
Developers
QA Doc
PM
PM
PM
PM ... Product Manager
PO ... Product Owner

5. Confidential
SilkPerformer
Developers
Test Manager
Developers
SilkTest
Developers
QA Doc
PO
PO
PO
PM
PM
PM
PM ... Product Manager
PO ... Product Owner
Adding Product Owner

6. Confidential
User Story Workflow – Testers not integrated
Unassigned
In Progress
Dev
In Progress
QA
Drafted QA Ready
Approved
Drop Ready
RTM Ready
PO
PO
QA
Not Started In Progress
PO
Drop Ready
RTM Ready
QA
Dev
QA

7. Confidential
User Story Workflow - „Small Waterfall“
Unassigned
In Progress
Dev
In Progress
QA
Drafted QA Ready
Approved
Drop Ready
RTM Ready
PO
PO
QA
Not Started In Progress
PO
Drop Ready
RTM Ready
QA
Dev
QA
Coding
•User story
•Iteration x
•4 weeks
Release
Testing
•All user stories
•Last Iteration
•4 weeks
Testing
•User story
•Iteration x+1
•4 weeks

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Lesson Learned
“Ask the Team”

9. Confidential
Adding Tester Skills
SilkPerformer
Developers
Test Manager
Developers
SilkTest
Developers
Doc
PO
PO
PO
PM
PM
PM
PM ... Product Manager
PO ... Product Owner
Tester
Tester
Tester

10. Confidential
Adding Documentation Skills
PO
PO
PO
PM
PM
PM
PM ... Product Manager
PO ... Product Owner
SilkPerformer
Developers
Test Manager
Developers
SilkTest
Developers
Tester
Tester
Tester
Doc
Doc
Doc

11. Confidential
SilkPerformer Engineering Team
Transition to Engineering Team
PO
PO
PO
PM
PM
PM
PM ... Product Manager
PO ... Product Owner
SilkTest Engineering Team
Test Manager Engineering Team

12. Confidential
Adding QM Coach
PO
PO
PO
PM
PM
PM
PM ... Product Manager
PO ... Product Owner
QM Coach
SilkPerformer Engineering Team
SilkTest Engineering Team
Test Manager Engineering Team

13. Confidential
Test Manager Engineering Team
Splitting & Re-Locating Teams
PO
PO
PO
PM
PM
PM
PM ... Product Manager
PO ... Product Owner
QM Coach
SilkPerformer Engineering Team
SilkTest Engineering Team

14. Confidential
In Progress
User Story Workflow - Agile
Unassigned
Drafted
Approved
PO
PO
Not Started In Progress
PO
DONE
Scrum
Team
DONE
Agile
Finish user story in
one
4-weeks Iteration

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Lesson Learned
“Agile is a journey,
not a destination”

16. Confidential
Product Scrum Team(s)
Distributed Team Environment
EQC
Contact
Daily
Quarterly
EQC
Resource Pool
QM Coach
Q
uarterly

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Lesson Learned
“Communicate, communicate,
communicate, …”

18. Our Environment we live in

19. Confidential
Scrum Team(s)
Iteration
Management
Our Environment we live in
RBT Environment
Scrum Team(s)
Test
Management
Product Owner
Requirements
Management
Management
Project Management, Reporting
Scrum
Team(s)
xUnit
Scrum Team(s)
Functional/
Performance
Testing
Scrum Team(s)
Source
Management

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Lesson Learned
“People are more important
than processes & tools”

21. How do we provide Visibility?

22. Confidential
Types of Visibility
• Internal Visibility
• Daily Stand-Ups
• Iteration Review Meetings
• Regular Updates on Production Systems
• Project Dashboard
• External Visibility
• Regular „Drops“ for customers and field people

23. Confidential
Project Dashboard
Goal Story Report
(Executive Summary)
Scrum Team Reports
Iteration-Related Quality-Related
User Story Reports
GettingintoDetails
ProvideVisibility

24. Confidential
Goal Story Report

25. Confidential
User Story Report

26. Q & A
Email to:dietmar.strasser@borland.com