This document discusses whether testers need to code in agile environments. It notes that while development teams already have coders, testers need technical awareness to collaborate effectively. Testers add unique value through skills like exploratory testing rather than coding. Technical awareness helps communication, but coding ability is not required as long as a tester understands frameworks and terminology. Testers should focus on competencies over roles and find ways to add value through skills like specialized testing.
Belgium Testing Days - Making Test Automation Work in Agile Projectslisacrispin
Slides from tutorial. Note that the most important part of the tutorial is the exercises, and I can't capture that in the slide deck. Please do not use these for public paid courses, I'm tired of our stuff being ripped off for agile testing classes.
Belgium Testing Days - Making Test Automation Work in Agile Projectslisacrispin
Slides from tutorial. Note that the most important part of the tutorial is the exercises, and I can't capture that in the slide deck. Please do not use these for public paid courses, I'm tired of our stuff being ripped off for agile testing classes.
Advanced Topics in Agile Tsting: Focus on Automationlisacrispin
Slide deck for workshop facilitated by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory at Quality in Agile Vancouver 2015. Outcomes from the workshop including all the mind maps will appear eventually on lisacrispin.com.
Presented at Agile Testing Days US 2018
https://agiletestingdays.us/session/refactoring-test-collaboration/
Collective ownership for testing starts with understanding testing. Rework your team dynamics to evolve past duplication and improve performance through whole team testing. Take home practical patterns for improving your team's collaboration on testing. Because teams who own testing have more confidence in the customer value of their results.
As the Pragmatic Programmers say, "refactoring is an activity that needs to be undertaken slowly, deliberately, and carefully," so how do we begin? In this session, we will experience the complex interactions of an agile team focused on demonstrating customer value by answering a series a questions:
Where do testers get their ideas?
How are you planning to accomplish this proposed testing, tester?
Why not automate all the things?
Who is going to do this manual testing and how does it work?
How do we know whether we're testing the right things?
Build your own list of TODOs from these various practical collaboration approaches and begin deduping your team's testing for a better first day back at the office.
After three years as a Scrum Master and Agile coach, I hit a wall coaching a team that did not want to try popular Agile engineering techniques such as TDD and pair programming. I had become a Scrum Master after four years working on the business analysis and account ownership side of things and could not speak from personal experience about engineering practices. In order to get some first-hand experience and to gain a new perspective, I chose to spend a year or two as a software developer on a Scrum team.
The experience has been eye-opening. I experienced a tremendous cognitive load working with a wide array of technologies; this pulled my attention away from many of the collaborative and process-oriented activities I cared about as a Scrum Master. I was surprised to feel strong pressure to complete work quickly, cutting corners, even when the Product Owner and Scrum Master were not asking me to. When this pressure was explicit, it usually came from my fellow developers. On the other hand, there is real joy in writing code and seeing a system do something worthwhile that it wasn't doing before. My outlook has changed tremendously and is something I want to share with anyone who works with development teams, especially Scrum Masters and other coaches. I am still enjoying my time as a developer, but I'm looking forward to returning to coaching and incorporating this experience into my approach.
Slides for my presentation at Agile2019 (https://agile2019.sched.com/event/OD8A/undercover-scrum-master-dane-weber)
Presented at DevNexus 2019: https://devnexus.com/presentations/2959/
We often hear focus on the customer, but what do you do when you customers are your coworkers? Developers are the largest group of individual contributors in software teams. It’s about time Developer Experience (DX) got the focus it deserves! Devs are users, too! Wouldn’t it be great if your user needs were met?
It’s the same argument again and again. One side says “team members should all be able to do everything, and the programmers should do their testing and all testers should be writing code”. The other side says “No, that can’t possibly work – programmers don’t know how to test, they don’t have the right mindset”. And on and on it goes.
http://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/webinar/need-testers-agile-teams/
You Cant Be Agile If Your Code Sucks (with 9 Tips For Dev Teams)Peter Gfader
Our industry has a problem: We are not lacking software methodologies, programming languages, tools or frameworks but we need great software engineers.
Great software engineering teams build quality-in and deliver great software on a regular basis. The technical excellence of those engineers will help you escape the "Waterfall sandwich" and make your organization a little more agile, from the inception of an idea till they go live.
I will talk about my experiences from the last 15 years, including small software delivery teams until big financial institutions.
* Why would a company like to be "agile"?
* How can a company achieve that?
* How can you achieve Technical Excellence in your software teams?
* What developer skills are more important than languages, methods or frameworks?
----
What is the difference between Agile and Business Agility? I will use this as an intro exercise.
---
What is "Business Agility"? Why is Agility important? What is Software Craftsmanship?
What can we do to improve our Technical Excellence?
https://beyond-agility.com
Personal Kaizen - how to improve your daily work as developer
This talks is a personal view on tools, resources and techniques which can help you becoming a better developer. Hardy explains what ideas from books like "My Job Went to India" (Chad Fowler), "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Andrew Hunt) and "Pragmattic Thinking and Learning" (Andrew Hunt) mean to him and how he tries to become a better developer every day by applying some of these ideas. Becoming a better developer, however, requires also to understand our own software better. Only if we understand ourselves we are able to learn effectively and tap into otherwise dormant resources. In this context the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition is explained as well as the different operational modes of our brain (linear vs rich).
Hardy Ferentschik, Redhat
Advanced Topics in Agile Tsting: Focus on Automationlisacrispin
Slide deck for workshop facilitated by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory at Quality in Agile Vancouver 2015. Outcomes from the workshop including all the mind maps will appear eventually on lisacrispin.com.
Presented at Agile Testing Days US 2018
https://agiletestingdays.us/session/refactoring-test-collaboration/
Collective ownership for testing starts with understanding testing. Rework your team dynamics to evolve past duplication and improve performance through whole team testing. Take home practical patterns for improving your team's collaboration on testing. Because teams who own testing have more confidence in the customer value of their results.
As the Pragmatic Programmers say, "refactoring is an activity that needs to be undertaken slowly, deliberately, and carefully," so how do we begin? In this session, we will experience the complex interactions of an agile team focused on demonstrating customer value by answering a series a questions:
Where do testers get their ideas?
How are you planning to accomplish this proposed testing, tester?
Why not automate all the things?
Who is going to do this manual testing and how does it work?
How do we know whether we're testing the right things?
Build your own list of TODOs from these various practical collaboration approaches and begin deduping your team's testing for a better first day back at the office.
After three years as a Scrum Master and Agile coach, I hit a wall coaching a team that did not want to try popular Agile engineering techniques such as TDD and pair programming. I had become a Scrum Master after four years working on the business analysis and account ownership side of things and could not speak from personal experience about engineering practices. In order to get some first-hand experience and to gain a new perspective, I chose to spend a year or two as a software developer on a Scrum team.
The experience has been eye-opening. I experienced a tremendous cognitive load working with a wide array of technologies; this pulled my attention away from many of the collaborative and process-oriented activities I cared about as a Scrum Master. I was surprised to feel strong pressure to complete work quickly, cutting corners, even when the Product Owner and Scrum Master were not asking me to. When this pressure was explicit, it usually came from my fellow developers. On the other hand, there is real joy in writing code and seeing a system do something worthwhile that it wasn't doing before. My outlook has changed tremendously and is something I want to share with anyone who works with development teams, especially Scrum Masters and other coaches. I am still enjoying my time as a developer, but I'm looking forward to returning to coaching and incorporating this experience into my approach.
Slides for my presentation at Agile2019 (https://agile2019.sched.com/event/OD8A/undercover-scrum-master-dane-weber)
Presented at DevNexus 2019: https://devnexus.com/presentations/2959/
We often hear focus on the customer, but what do you do when you customers are your coworkers? Developers are the largest group of individual contributors in software teams. It’s about time Developer Experience (DX) got the focus it deserves! Devs are users, too! Wouldn’t it be great if your user needs were met?
It’s the same argument again and again. One side says “team members should all be able to do everything, and the programmers should do their testing and all testers should be writing code”. The other side says “No, that can’t possibly work – programmers don’t know how to test, they don’t have the right mindset”. And on and on it goes.
http://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/resource/webinar/need-testers-agile-teams/
You Cant Be Agile If Your Code Sucks (with 9 Tips For Dev Teams)Peter Gfader
Our industry has a problem: We are not lacking software methodologies, programming languages, tools or frameworks but we need great software engineers.
Great software engineering teams build quality-in and deliver great software on a regular basis. The technical excellence of those engineers will help you escape the "Waterfall sandwich" and make your organization a little more agile, from the inception of an idea till they go live.
I will talk about my experiences from the last 15 years, including small software delivery teams until big financial institutions.
* Why would a company like to be "agile"?
* How can a company achieve that?
* How can you achieve Technical Excellence in your software teams?
* What developer skills are more important than languages, methods or frameworks?
----
What is the difference between Agile and Business Agility? I will use this as an intro exercise.
---
What is "Business Agility"? Why is Agility important? What is Software Craftsmanship?
What can we do to improve our Technical Excellence?
https://beyond-agility.com
Personal Kaizen - how to improve your daily work as developer
This talks is a personal view on tools, resources and techniques which can help you becoming a better developer. Hardy explains what ideas from books like "My Job Went to India" (Chad Fowler), "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Andrew Hunt) and "Pragmattic Thinking and Learning" (Andrew Hunt) mean to him and how he tries to become a better developer every day by applying some of these ideas. Becoming a better developer, however, requires also to understand our own software better. Only if we understand ourselves we are able to learn effectively and tap into otherwise dormant resources. In this context the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition is explained as well as the different operational modes of our brain (linear vs rich).
Hardy Ferentschik, Redhat
How To Optimize Your Tech Recruiting Stack
Patrick Christell, Senior Sourcer at Hire4ce, meets all the qualifications of “MASTER.”
We’re talking a Full-Lifecycle Recruiter, Project Manager and Agile sourcing pod-builder with seven-plus years of progressive experience recruiting for technology companies across the boards.
He also has a rather impressive tech stack, which is what this is all about.
Patrick is here to give you 60-minutes of training and live Q&A that will help you learn to recruit top talent.
In this webinar we will cover:
- How to search.
Tools like Hiretual, Seekout, AmazingHiring (and their plusses and minuses).
The difference between searching for senior-level engineers, how to know if you are on a purple squirrel hunt, and what to with a BONUS live demo that iterates a single string.
- How to run a sourcing pod.
Learn how Patrick creates his own CRM that can do outreach and reporting
- How to understand tech without being a techie.
What a software stack even is, understanding how it fits together, learning what each part of the stack technologies are associated with.
- How to engage talent.
Why a mixture of broad spectrum outreach and personalized outreach is best.
What cadence works best in 2019.
Why only using inmails screws you, and how to leverage the phone even if you hate using it (TextNow).
Nobody’s got time for a floppy stack.
Let Patrick show you how to build in functionality and results.
Kickass Agile Development - Agile & Beyond ConferenceDan Chuparkoff
Watch Dan Chuparkoff as he shares some of the secrets to kick-ass software development at Atlassian. He gives us a glimpse at a new Agile paradigm. Feedback cycles are short, code quality is awesome, and customers get the features they lust after. Hear how Atlassian uses pull-requests for better code quality; collaborates fast to develop ideas; avoids meetings; tightens feedback loops to fail fast; shortens release cycles and work together happily from different corners of the globe. Sound like paradise? It is!
Kanban was originally created as a scheduling system to help manufacturing organizations determine what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce. Although this may not sound like software development, these lean principles can be successfully applied to development teams to improve the delivery of value through better visibility and limits on work in process.
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I believe that our existing models of testing are not fit for purpose – they are inconsistent, controversial, partial, proprietary and stuck in the past. They are not going to support us in the rapidly emerging technologies and approaches. The certification schemes that should represent the interests and integrity of our profession don’t, and we are left with schemes that are popular, but have low value, lower esteem and attract harsh criticism. My goal in proposing the New Model is to stimulate new thinking in this area.
eurostarconferences.com
testhuddle.com
I believe that our existing models of testing are not fit for purpose – they are inconsistent, controversial, partial, proprietary and stuck in the past. They are not going to support us in the rapidly emerging technologies and approaches. The certification schemes that should represent the interests and integrity of our profession don’t, and we are left with schemes that are popular, but have low value, lower esteem and attract harsh criticism. My goal in proposing the New Model is to stimulate new thinking in this area.
eurostarconferences.com
testhuddle.com
Kanban was originally created as a scheduling system to help manufacturing organizations determine what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce. Although this may not sound like software development, these lean principles can be successfully applied to development teams to improve the delivery of value through better visibility and limits on work in process.
This webinar will provide an overview of the Kanban method, including the history and motivation, the core principles and practices, and how these apply to efficiency and process improvement in software development. We’ll also describe how Team Foundation Server can be used as a foundation for your work visualization and work flow management. Come join us for this free Webinar!
What needs to be true? Patterns of engineering agilityAndy Norton
What practices help us to scale in a sustainable way for the people behind the process? What capabilities do we need to be intentional about, and what techniques can we leverage? - what needs to be true?
Join Stacey Brown, President of MindLink Resources, for a webinar that will examine the top 10 qualities of a quality assurance (QA) tester. Learn how to bring out these traits in your current QA staff and how to watch for these soft skills when screening new candidates.
When localizing products, the QA step is essential in confirming the translation and making sure the product was successfully prepared for the target market. Managers trust the QA staff to catch translation and engineering errors and ensure product readiness to avoid quality issues caught by the end customer. Many managers make the mistake of assigning this critical role to a linguist who may not have the right characteristics of a good tester. When selecting QA staff, it is important to consider skills beyond just linguistic and technical. There are many “soft skills” to watch for in a candidate that will give localization managers the confidence that even small errors will be reported by their tester.
In this webinar, Stacey will discuss the top 10 qualities of a quality assurance (QA) tester, how to bring out these traits in current QA staff, and how to watch for these soft skills when screening new candidates.
About the presenter
Stacey Brown is the Talent Management Specialist and President of Mindlink Resources, LLC.. She has a passion for surrounding herself with talented people. For the past 15 years she has successfully built teams of contractors providing a variety of services at large fortune 500 companies in the Pacific Northwest. She specifically has over 12 years of experience recruiting, training and managing QA specialists. Stacey has a degree in Communications and an MBA in Technology Management.
Presented at JAX London 2013.
Software craftsman and co-founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC). Sandro has been coding since a very young age but just started his professional career in 1996. He has worked for startups, software houses, product companies and international consultancy companies. Having worked as a consultant for the majority of his career, he had the opportunity to work in a good variety of projects, with different languages and technologies, and across many industries. Currently he is a director at UBS Investment Bank, where he works as a hands-on mentor, giving technical directions, looking after the quality of the systems and pair-programming with developers in the UK and abroad. His main objective is to help developers to become real software craftsmen.
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1. Do Testers Have to Code…
Quality
in
Agile
Conference
Vancouver,
Canada
April
2015
Lisa
Crispin
Janet
Gregory
@lisacrispin
@janetgregoryca
to be useful?
2. A li7le about us
Janet
First
agile
team:
2000
Currently
coaching,
training
TwiGer:
janetgregoryca
Email:
janet@agiletester.ca
Agile
TesJng;
2009
More
Agile
TesJng:
Oct
2014
Website:
www.agiletester.com
www.agiletester.ca
Lisa
First
agile
team
–
2000
Currently
tester
on
Pivotal
Tracker
team
TwiGer:
lisacrispin
Email:
lisa@agiletester.ca
3. We’ve
heard
it
since
the
dawn
of
“agile”…
Everyone on the team should be able to do
everything, including writing production
code
4. We need to automate
everything!
Let’s hire some SDETs!
But shouldn’t we be trying
to build quality in?
5. Reality Check…
• Many
(if
not
most)
job
ads
ask
for
programming
skills
• Managers
think
test
automaJon
is
a
silver
bullet
• Technical
skills
help
testers
communicate
with
devs,
ops,
others
6. Our take
• TesJng
skills
such
as
exploratory
tesJng
are
a
must
• Competencies
trump
roles
• The
whole
team
must
take
responsibility
for
quality
• TesJng
starts
at
the
beginning
• Know
what
you
need
to
add
value
• There
is
no
room
for
zombie
testers!
7. It’s a Mindset Switch
Instead
of
• We’re
here
to
find
bugs
…
or
ensure
requirements
are
met
…
or
break
the
sobware
…
7
Think
– How
do
we
“bake
quality
in”?
– ..and
how
can
we
help
deliver
sobware
successfully?
8. Testers
need
Technical
Awareness
!!
Agile
teams
already
have
coders,
but…
9. Feature
(with
examples)
User
Story
High-‐
Level
AT
Fix
Defects
Code,
test
&
automate
story
ATDD
Acceptance Test Driven Development
Accept
Story
Explore
Examples
10. This means learning…
• TesJng
framework
your
team
selects
• and
the
DSL
(domain
specific
language)
• Common
language
with
programmers
• Common
language
with
customers
• Code
to
read
&
understand
• Code
to
write?
–
can’t
hurt,
but
not
absolutely
required
11. Frameworks / languages / terminology
Example
of
BDD
format
Given
the
user
has
no
exisJng
account
When
she
requests
to
create
a
new
account
And
she
enters
a
valid
user
name
and
valid
password
(rules
defined)
Then
the
informaJon
is
saved
upon
submilng.
23. Testers add unique value
• Delivery
teams
already
have
coders
• But
may
not
have
tesJng
skills
such
as:
• Exploratory
tesJng
• SpecialJes
such
as
security,
performance,
UX
tesJng
• EliciJng
examples
from
customers,
turning
into
tests
that
guide
coding
27. Where to get the skills?
Experiment!
• Study
group,
book
club
• Community
of
PracJce
• Online
resources
• What
fits
your
learning
style?
• Find
the
wonder!
28. What skill do you need?
• Get
back
with
your
group
of
three
• IdenJfy
one
skill
that
would
help
you
collaborate
with
team
members
to
build
quality
in
• Think
of
an
experiment
that
could
help
you
learn
the
skill
29. So, do we need to be coders?
• Dev
teams
already
have
coders!
• Technical
awareness
is
a
must
• Thinking
skills
enable
our
contribuJons
• Specialized
tesJng
skills
add
huge
value
30. There’s not one right way
Find ways that you can add value
to your team
And then …. keep learning
31. More Learning
• Adzic,
Gojko,
Specifica5on
by
Example:
How
Successful
Teams
Deliver
the
Right
SoAware,
Manning,
2011
• Adzic,
Gojko,
Impact
Mapping:
Making
a
Big
Impact
with
SoAware
Products
and
Projects,
2012a
hGp://impactmapping.org
• Gärtner,
Markus,
ATDD
By
Example:
A
Prac5cal
Guide
to
Acceptance
Test-‐
Driven
Development,
Addison-‐Wesley,
2012a
• Karten,
Naomi,
"Are
You
Listening?",
hGp://www.agileconnecJon.com/arJcle/
are-‐you-‐listening,
Agile
ConnecJon,
2009
• Keogh,
Liz,
hGp://lunivore.com
-‐
look
for
her
posts
on
BDD,
Real
OpJons
• Knight,
Adam
P.,
"T-‐shaped
Tester,
Square
Shaped
Team",
hGp://
thesocialtester.co.uk/t-‐shaped-‐tester-‐square-‐shaped-‐team/,
2013
• Lambert,
Rob,
"T-‐shaped
Testers
and
Their
Role
In
a
Team",
hGp://
thesocialtester.co.uk/t-‐shaped-‐testers-‐and-‐their-‐role-‐in-‐a-‐team/
,
2012
• Levison,
Mark,
"The
Beginner's
Mind
-‐
An
Approach
to
Listening",
hGp://
www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/beginners_mind,
InfoQ,
2008
• McMillan,
Darren,
"Mind
Mapping
101",
for
TesJng:
hGp://
www.beGertesJng.co.uk/content/?p=956,
2011
• PaGon,
Jeff,
User
Story
Mapping,
2014
• Wynne,
MaG
and
Aslak
Hellesoy,
The
Cucumber
Book:
Behavior-‐Driven
Development
for
Testers
and
Developers,
PragmaJc
Programmers,
2012
32. Agile
Tes5ng:
A
Prac5cal
Guide
for
Testers
and
Agile
Teams
More
Agile
Tes5ng:
Learning
Journeys
for
the
Whole
Team
By
Janet
Gregory
and
Lisa
Crispin
www.agiletester.ca
www.agiletester.com
Contact
info
www.janetgregory.ca
Email:
janet@agiletester.ca
TwiGer:
janetgregoryca
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lisacrispin.com
Email:
lisa@agiletester.ca
TwiGer:
lisacrispin