Pivoting Your Organization to Become Agile Testers
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Many organizations struggle with transforming from the old style teams consisting of members with specialized silos of skills into Agile teams consisting of generalized specialists. This results in sub-optimal Agile adoptions in Agile/Scrum environments, which is where most organizations transforming to Agile are advised to start. We will start with a look into the real role of QA in the organization, and where they truly add value in the production of quality code to allow the business to move forward. Piggybacking on the role of QA, we will then speak to exactly what QA needs to do to add value to the software development process, and how they integrate in the DevOps model that is a contemporary solution to an age old issue. And, finally, we will speak to some uncomfortable truths, and draw conclusions into the skills that Agile Testers must be expected to master to allow the organization to pivot successfully into a truly Agile development group.
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Software is a little like those expensive shiny new electronics that we all crave. We spend a bunch of money acquiring one. It’s great. Solves all of the problems that we had. Runs fast. Looks outstanding. Then the ravages of time overtake it. It starts getting grimy. Scratched. Dented. We spend more money keeping it shiny and cool looking. But eventually, it gets too slow to run the latest problem-solving stuff, and we start to think of the next expensive shiny new electronic thing to replace it. But now, we’re talking real money, and we hesitate. Should we just keep our old, slow (and getting grimier by the day) device, or spend money (that perhaps we don’t have, and will have to borrow) to acquire a new one? Such is modern life. And such is the life of software.
This session is not about the newest shiny devices, but about the software that we write day to day. In the quest to keep software being developed on a schedule that is acceptable to the business, as we add new features and functionality, we sometimes cut corners, instead of doing the refactorings that the software should have day-to-day. Sometimes, we’re even forced to “hack” a solution together because “working software” is our highest priority. But no one said that working software is written in a way that we’d be proud to show our friends! And if we continue to work that way, one day the product owner will find that our estimate for completion, whether explicit or derived from metrics such as story points or cycle time, are simply too high for the benefit expected. Then what?
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There's an old joke that goes something like this. A tourist in New York City asks a resident how to get to a famous concert venue, saying, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" To which the resident replies, "Practice." Aside from the slight difference in topic, this is almost the same as asking, "How do I get to high-quality code that I can use Continuous Delivery on?" You could easily say, "Practice."
By this, what you mean is that you need to test early and often to ensure that you have high-quality code. Everyone knows that unit testing is a large part of that equation. Managers (and others) have learned that you need to watch the code coverage metrics to see that you are testing every line of your code. People feel comfortable that if you test all the code that you're never going to be blind-sided by a bug that you missed during development. But, as most of us who have actually paid attention to code coverage know, that is misplaced comfort.
That's because it's too easy to fall prey to one of two fallacies about code coverage. First, it's too easy to game the metric, if you need to impress your management into complacency. And second, it is a poor metric to judge quality by. Unit testing is the answer for high-quality code, but how much testing is enough? There are qualitative metrics, such as you have enough unit tests when you don't have production problems, but that really begs the question. There are static and dynamic code metrics that you can produce, but those also fall short of the goal. However, there is one technique to use that goes a long way to answering the question unambiguously. Mutation Testing.
Mutation Testing assumes 100% code coverage. It then takes your nice happy code and messes with it. Negate a conditional. The code now does something else. Do your unit tests find that bug? Good! How about changing a conditional. Oops. The mutation survives, and the unit tests don't find it? Bad!!
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1970s-1990s: Software development matures and becomes commonplace. Many non-developers are absorbed into large development organisations as a way to help control costs. Because of so many controls, checkers, checkers of checkers, and so on, costs spiral out of control. A desire to make software more manageable leads to a call for software engineering.
2000s-present: The Agile movement responds to the dizzying controls that the quasi-command-and-control structure of development has become with a manifesto – a call to get back to basics. To look past the waste associated with bloated software development management, and work in collaborative concert between business and development.
As more and more organisations attempted to “become Agile” through transformations, some funny things happened. People started to believe that all they had to do was fix the process and the software would magically improve itself. Late adopters “got passes” from later generation Agile coaches and found ways to keep doing old bad behaviours under new names, run a few fun-filled days of trainings, and declare that the problem was fixed. And so on.
There has been scant peer reviewed data that shows that any of the process changes that Agile promised actually have had any lasting value on organisations whatsoever. However, led by these same Agile coaches, we continue to believe (at least, want to believe) that good is coming out of all the work put into the transformations.
A new call to arms is upon us. We of the Agile Craftsmanship community say that the only verifiable improvements that came with the Agile revolution were in eXtreme Programming, and the passion surrounding an appreciation in making great things. In this session, Howard will open your eyes to a lifetime commitment – something akin to the pride that one experienced in the guild traditions of medieval Europe.
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Digital circuits, including the ones that we use for modern day computers, rely on digital electronics. That just means that they work because of a particular voltage being present to mean a one and the lack of a voltage to mean a zero. It’s how we build circuits together to transform an input into an output, with all of the circuits and programs to run on those circuits (in a von Neumann computer) that makes computers useful. But when designing these circuits, one basic design question to answer is “should I use a clock or not (synchronous vs asynchronous)?†While synchronous circuits are easier to design, asynchronous circuits have many advantages, such as high performance.
Let me mapping this concept onto organization dysfunction. As a coach, I can tell within 5 minutes of meeting a client how well the organization will do when attempting to become more Agile through reductions in Lean Wastes by adopting some Software Craftsmanship and DevOps practices and principles. How can I tell? Easy. I look at their calendaring tools. When I see a person’s email box full of calendar requests and a calendar that resembles a paved driveway, I know immediately that we will have a lot of problems. On the other hand, when the corporate culture embraces true one-on-one collaboration, with few meetings, I know that we’re going to get on together just fine.
As an organization if we want to make progress on work to be done, we have a choice to make. We can either be asynchronous by collaborating together and getting stuff done, or we can take the route that has be drummed into everyone’s head over the last 159 years: we can hold meetings. Unhappily, the more we rely on meetings as the primary way of making progress, the less we get done because of waiting and coordination wastes.
This talk will discuss the underlying analogy more in depth, apply it to organizations we are familiar with, and discuss the proper role for meetings in an organization. It will then turn its attention to how DevOps in general and virtualization/containerization in particular allows us to be more asynchronous as an organization, and therefore much quicker and less wasteful.
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For this master-class, we want to learn the classic Michael Feathers dance of:
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Sorry to say it guys, but Agile has gone limp over the last few years. As we get more and more coaches into the mix, both external as well as internal, organizations somehow have forgotten that it’s software that we’re trying to produce. Not great stand-ups.
Technical practices matter. In fact, if we could dispense with ALL process and still create the valuable quality software that is needed, we should do that. From a Lean perspective, process adds no customer facing value. But getting rid of all process is crazy talk. Even Fred George, who promoted “Programmer Anarchy” several years ago never got away from all process. In reality, his movement was premised on driving business decision making directly into technical decision making, and completely empowering teams to “be” the company. He premised the concept of “Programmer Anarchy” on using the best and brightest developers out there, and trusting that if they could do something as difficult as create great code that they could do the business decision making as well.
But perhaps we don’t have the absolute best talent out there. Perhaps it’s hard to lure people away from Google and Facebook because of the money and the chance to get great work environment and unbelievable work challenges (change the world, anyone?) Does that mean that we have to go back into the Fredrick Winslow Taylor world view of “The One Best Way”? With that way becoming making a choice between Scrum, SAFe, Lean/Kanban, and other development processes?
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Technical practices matter. In fact, if we could dispense with ALL process and still create the valuable quality software that is needed, we should do that. From a Lean perspective, process adds no customer facing value. But getting rid of all process is crazy talk. Even Fred George, who promoted “Programmer Anarchy” several years ago never got away from all process. In reality, his movement was premised on driving business decision making directly into technical decision making, and completely empowering teams to “be” the company. He premised the concept of “Programmer Anarchy” on using the best and brightest developers out there, and trusting that if they could do something as difficult as create great code that they could do the business decision making as well.
But perhaps we don’t have the absolute best talent out there. Perhaps it’s hard to lure people away from Google and Facebook because of the money and the chance to get great work environment and unbelievable work challenges (change the world, anyone?) Does that mean that we have to go back into the Fredrick Winslow Taylor world view of “The One Best Way”? With that way becoming making a choice between Scrum, SAFe, Lean/Kanban, and other development processes?
I’d like to convince you that what’s going to work for your organization and your employees is something in the middle. I, of course, lean into the “better technical practices will yield better outcomes” frame of mind. You may as well. But when Garrison Keillor said, on “A Prairie Home Companion” (a long running radio show on National Public Radio in the States), “Well, that’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average”, that was satire! And the same is true of your organization. It can’t logically be true that all organizations’ developers are all above average. But we can hold people to an acceptable level of technical practices that will yield in writing better code than merely having a process that talks about writing better code.
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Just about everyone understands that test-driven development (TDD) is one of the best ways to make sure that the code you produce has quality baked in and has a leg up when it comes to maintainability, readability and so on. But, perhaps you’re a little new to the scene, and are a bit shy in saying so and asking for help. No matter. In this workshop, Howard will guide you through a set of increasingly complex coding examples, giving you the knowledge and confidence to use TDD, so your code can start benefitting from the discipline’s practice.
We will start with no prior knowledge of TDD, and go on to gain insight into not just how and what to do, but also to understand the whys of the TDD practice. Don’t expect to become an expert in a day, but do expect to be ready to start using your new-found knowledge immediately to start effectively and efficiently keeping bugs from ever showing up on your code’s doorstep, and how to eradicate them from ever appearing again should one find it’s way into your code!
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Back in 1955, Rudolf Flesch wrote his seminal book “Why Johnny Can’t Read”. The book became a flash point about how American education was depriving children of the joys of knowledge by not properly training them in the correct way to learn to read, by phonics, rather than the "whole word” guessing that was popular at the time. The book was a bellwether about the “crisis in education” at the time. Today’s session will not be about education, reading, or whether phonics are desirable or not. But the session today does address a serious problem that just about everyone in the IT industry faces. We suffer because our legacy code is not unit tested.
Actually, lack of unit testing in legacy code (which is really a tautology) is just an easily observed symptom of the real issue, which is lack of quality and lack of knowledge in the code that we depend on, day after day. When the code shows a defect, most organisations expect a quick resolution to the problem and hope for the best. The same tack is taken when the code needs to be extended. This technique, called “code and pray”, rarely ends well.
Organizations that try to do the right thing will give their development team the additional responsibility to unit test their code. Everyone knows that unit testing will go a long way in addressing the quality issue. The bet is that the time and effort taken to unit test the code will fix the quality problem. And they’re right. There are many studies that show this result.
But there is one fatal flaw in these best intentions. Unit testing legacy code is hard. Really hard. And many times, this one fact torpedoes the entire effort that was supposed to make things better.
This is the first part of a two part series on Johnny (the other being “Why Johnny STILL Can’t Unit Test His Legacy Code”). In this session, we will look at the technical issues surrounding refactoring legacy code.
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With the best of intentions, people have flocked to behaviour-driven development by way of Cucumber over the past few years, and that’s a great thing! But just like dieting, where great things can fall to the wayside due to the temptation to indulge in wonderful desserts, BDD can fall to the wayside due to the pressure to deliver more and more functionality, sprint after sprint. Often, Cucumber becomes just a way to automate a bunch of tests, which isn’t bad by itself, even if it doesn’t get to the core of how product owners and the delivery team should start to communicate. But without constant attention, that great garden of creeping Cucumber vines becomes a tangled mess that slowly withers away under massive technical debt.
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