Talk exemplifying remote dev/test pairing session at Agile Tour 2010

1. Remote Dev/Test Pairing
Dawn Cannan and Franz Pereira
Agile Tour 2010
October 28, 2010

2. Today’s Presenters
USA:
– Dawn Cannan
• Tester for 10 years
Costa Rica:
– Franz Pereira
• Ruby on Rails developer
At AgileNearShore

3. Why Pair Devs and Testers?
• Shared understanding of story
• Relationship building
• Bi-directional teaching
– Developers learn how
testers think and what
they will do to test a story
– Testers gain insight into the system and learn how
the application works « under the hood »

4. Distributed Pairing? Really?
• Can’t you only pair when you are co-located? Definitely Not
Limited By Location
• An example setup:
– Mikogo and Skype
– Webcam
– Headset (or mic/spkr)
• That’s it! Very low-cost
and easy to set up! (You probably
already have what you need)
• It gets better!
– The first 2-3 times with a new person will be weird. Eventually, you
work out a system

5. Distributed Pairing? Really?
• Can’t you only pair when you are co-located?
Definitely Not Limited By Location
• An example setup:
– Mikogo and Skype
– Webcam (optional)
– Headset (or mic/spkr)
• That’s it! Very low-cost
and easy to set up! (You probably already
have what you need)

6. A Note About ATDD
• Define acceptance tests before coding
• Prevent defects
• Create common
language
• Customer -driven
Ensure that users don’t feel like this
when they use your software

7. What will you see today?
• Wiki framework for cucumber tests
– Similar to FitNesse, but for Cucumber
• Technology stack:
– Ruby on Rails
– Cucumber

8. Demo Time
Time to see it in action!
LIVE!
In 3D!!

9. Thanks!!
• Dawn’s blog:
– http://www.passionatetester.com/
• Ruby on Rails:
– http://rubyonrails.org/
• Cucumber:
– http://cukes.info/