Mob testing

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Mob Testing
by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

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

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

Mobbing Setup and Roles
Driver
Navigators
Designated
Navigator
Facilitator

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

Strong-Style
Pairing Exercise

Highest level of abstraction
Intent
Location
Details

Mobbing Guidelines

Yes, and…

Kindness,
Consideration and
Respect

Mob Exploratory Testing

Task 1:
Freeform Exploration

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

Explore with Intent
Mission Charter
Other
Charters
Details
INTENT
LEARNINGS

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

Task I1:
Exploring in a Frame

From Michael Sahota
STICKYNOTESDONERIGHT

Exploring in a Mob
Creating a varied learning experience

Testers acquire a lot of
implicit knowledge

Introducing
concepts, ideas
and tools

Vocalizing your
ideas

Emotions through
Trigger Words

Mapping
Coverage, Bugs
and Questions

Building habits and
transferring skills
over
passing knowledge

Automation in Testing
TheVery Basics

Test Automation
is
Use of Programming
for Testing Purposes

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

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

Task 1:
Selenium IDE

Task 1I:
Test as code

Task I:
Test-Driven Development

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

Discuss
Observations Retrospective

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

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!

Takeaways
Mob Testing / Mob Programming

Learning or
Contributing

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

Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Email: maaret@iki.fi
Twitter: @maaretp
Web: maaretp.com
Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi
(please connect with me through
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