Slides from presentation at Agile Tour Dublin 2015

1. Iain Bright
Agile Tour Dublin 2015

2. Background and challenges
Building a shared understanding
Sharing findings from exploratory testing
What worked… and didn’t

3. Not about Agile
Not about testing
About people and more importantly – about
people working together

4. Spencer Stuart
Greenfield project to replace legacy system
Moved to Agile from iterative based Waterfall

5. Development and test teams not working
together
Little guidance on how to ‘deliver’
Get involved early
Add value to development effort
Hybrid version of Agile
First complete module to be delivered with this
approach

6. Model based testing technique
SRD with Use Cases
UI/UX templates and prototypes
Mindmap shared with scrum team
How to make relevant to developers
Kept at arms length

7. Define
approach
Paired
testing

8. Legacy defects
Previous development stream near completion
Flagged for ‘QA review’ post triage
Acceptance tests added

9. Focus on scrum output
Loosely time boxed
Scope based on relevant part of model
Issues and queries logged
Feedback shared with lead developer and BA
initially
Continued through each sprint

10. Test model reviewed start of each sprint
Time not allocated to process
Share understanding with all involved
UX Designers
Stricter with getting issues resolved
Avoid ripple effect

11. Improved quality
Less defects raised from formal System Test
Integration testing
Testers knowledge of system used to guide
developers automated API testing
Acceptance Tests on legacy defects used for
other scrum teams
Increased understanding of each others roles

12. Collaboration shouldn’t be restricted to Agile
Don’t keep it to yourself