Mob Testing

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Mob Testing
by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

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Mob Testing is
Mob Programming so that:
• You’re a tester in a mob
programming team
OR
• Activity you mob on is testing

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"All the brilliant people working on
the same thing, at the same time, in
the same space, on the same
computer." -- Woody Zuill

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Mobbing Setup and Roles
Driver
Navigators
Designated
Navigator
Facilitator

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Strong-Style Navigation
“For an idea to go from your
head to the computer it must
go through someone else’s
hands”
*http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.fi/2014/06/llewellyns-strong-style-pairing.html

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Strong-Style
Pairing Exercise

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Highest level of abstraction
Intent
Location
Details

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Mobbing Guidelines

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Yes, and…

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Kindness,
Consideration and
Respect

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Mob Exploratory Testing

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Task 1:
Freeform Exploration

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Product is my external
imagination
I am my developer’s external imagination

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Explore with Intent
Mission Charter
Other
Charters
Details
INTENT
LEARNINGS

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Exploratory Testing:
Frame of Management
”A day’s work”
Vision (“Sandbox”) Current Charter
Other Charters Details
Bug
Reports
Perception of
quality and
coverage
Quality
ReportDebriefing
Tester
Test
Manager
Past
Results
Obstacles
Outlook
Feelings
?
#
xCharter backlog of the future
testing
Out of
budget
Next in
importance!
#, ?, x, +
20:20:60
Session sheets of the past testing
Idea of
exploration
Metrics
summary
Coaching
Playbooks
Coverage outlines

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Task I1:
Exploring in a Frame

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From Michael Sahota
STICKYNOTESDONERIGHT

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Exploring in a Mob
Creating a varied learning experience

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Testers acquire a lot of
implicit knowledge

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Introducing
concepts, ideas
and tools

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Vocalizing your
ideas

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Emotions through
Trigger Words

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Mapping
Coverage, Bugs
and Questions

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Building habits and
transferring skills
over
passing knowledge

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Automation in Testing
TheVery Basics

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Test Automation
is
Use of Programming
for Testing Purposes

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Programming is like
writing. Getting
started is easy and
it takes a lifetime to
get good at.

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http://selenium.thinkcode.se/
Test Target Application
by Thomas Sundberg

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Task 1:
Selenium IDE

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Task 1I:
Test as code

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Task I:
Test-Driven Development

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Coding exercise
(Fizz Buzz)
1, 2, Fizz, 4, Buzz,
Fizz, 7, 8, Fizz, Buzz,
11, Fizz, 13, 14, FizzBuzz,
16, 17, Fizz, 19, Buzz

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Discuss
Observations Retrospective

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What Testing gives Us
UnitTesting
ExploratoryTesting
SPEC
FEEDBACK
REGRESSION
GRANULARITY
GUIDANCE
UNDERSTANDING
MODELS
SERENDIPITYTesting as
artifact
creation
Testing as
performance

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Before
implementing
While
implementing
Before
production
While in
production
Testing as
artifact creation
Testing as
performance
(exploration)
Ways to think of testing peak at different moments with regards to adding a capability
TOTALS
Testing is Everywhere!

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Takeaways
Mob Testing / Mob Programming

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Learning or
Contributing

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The 1 % every day
=> 3600 % in a year

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Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Email: maaret@iki.fi
Twitter: @maaretp
Web: maaretp.com
Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi
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