This document discusses an enterprise's journey towards more agile testing practices. It outlines some of the challenges that led the organization to change, including delays in development cascading to testing, large amounts of manual testing slowing delivery, and late defect discovery impacting timelines and quality. The journey involved adopting practices like test-driven development, test automation, and integrating testing scopes from cross-functional teams earlier in iterations. It also discusses challenges of setting up an agile test organization, implementing test automation at scale, determining how and when to do integration and non-functional testing. The approach involved training, coaching, conferences, evolving practices using kanban principles, and starting with current capabilities while experimenting safely.

1. Evolving to Agile Testing
An Enterprise’s Journey
Hrishikesh Karekar
Sutap Choudhury
Vinaya Muralidharan
Agile Coaches

2. Why the Change?
Integration
Issues
Time to Value
Inability to
Accept late
scope
changes
Release
Drama
Customer’s
Need

3. The Journey towards Agility
Critical Chain
Project
Management
Integration
Driven
Development
PracticesAGILITY
through
KANBAN

4. • Delays in
development
cascade to testing
• Large part of tests
continue to be
manual – slowing
down delivery
• Late defect
discovery
impacting
timelines & quality
Agile development – Rapid, incremental & Iterative
Challenges not very
different from the
waterfall world
Agile Testing becomes the
bottleneck – Agility remains
elusive
AGILE TESTING
CHALLENGE

5. Agile Testing Challenges
Agile Test Organization
• Adopt Test Driven
Approaches
• Moving from Silos to close
collaboration with business,
product owners & delivery
Test Automation
• New skills & tools
• Upfront Investment
• Technical Challenges
Integration
• Integrating scope from
several cross-functional
teams - When to test
integration & what
depth?
• Continuous Regression?
Non Functional Test
• Performance, Security,
U2U, B2B – can it be
run on small batches?
• Will they increase
overheads and costs?
• Certify scope with
iteration/sprint level
testing?

6. Agile Testing- What are we
trying?
Agile Test Organization
• Trainings and Coaching at
all levels
• Conferences, Certifications
• Agile Center of Excellence
Test Automation
• TDD
• Focus on automating regression
• ATDD Thinking
• Telco Building Blocks /
language aligned with BDD /
ATDD
Integration
• Agile Testing
Strategy Pyramid
• -- the earlier the
better
Non Functional
Test
• Still evolving
• What can be done
for early feedback
/ reduce pain?

7. Agile Testing- What are we
trying?
Evolving all the time
using the Kanban
Method
• Respect current roles &
responsibilities
• Start with where you
are now
• Safe experiments

8. Thank You
@hrishikarekar
@vinaya1980
@sutapc