Lessons Learned since the
Four Schools
Markus Gärtner it-agile GmbH
http://www.shino.de/blog http://www.it-agile.de
@mgaertne @itagile
The Beginning
Four Schools anyone?
http://www.prismnet.com/~wazmo/papers/four_schools.pdf
Four Schools anyone?
http://www.prismnet.com/~wazmo/papers/four_schools.pdf
CAST 2011
http://bit.ly/4schoolsgoodidea
AreTesting “Schools“ a good idea?
People
Architecture
(formal and informal)
Routines
(formal and informal)
Culture
http://www.ewts.at/Bilder%20online/Papers%202004/Roberts_%20Elements%20
of%20Organizational%20Design.ppt
Human System Dynamics
http://wiki.hsdinstitute.org/cde
Human System Dynamics
http://wiki.hsdinstitute.org/landscape_diagram
TheTesting LandscapeIndividual
Accountability
High
accountability
Low
accountability
FormalityLow formality High formality
Traditional
Test Cases
Regulated
Environments
Hyper-
productive
Teams
Crowd-sourced
Testing
Appreciative Retrospective
It‘s 2023.
Context-driven rules the world.
What happened?
How does this help
advance the craft of
software testing?
http://www.thenoassholerule.com/
Questions?
Markus Gärtner
http://www.shino.de/blog
@mgaertne
it-agile GmbH
http://www.it-agile.de
@itagile

Lessons learned since the four schools