Distributed organisation / projects / teams is not a new phenomenon. It is a reality. However, do we really work well in Testing on such distributed teams? Learn some practices that help bridge the Distributed Testing gap!

1. STRATEGIES FOR
DISTRIBUTED AGILE
TESTING
Anand Bagmar
Test Practice Lead

2. @BagmarAnand
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ABOUT ME

3. Money / Value
Time
Quality
ORGANIZATION OBJECTIVE

4. DISTRIBUTION / FRAGMENTATION

5. Anti-Patterns

6. PRACTICES THAT HINDER
Assumptions Bullying
Ganging upNot caring for other
TEAM WORK

7. ANTI-PATTERNS – TOOLS

8. ANTI-PATTERNS – REPORTS & METRICS

9. ANTI-PATTERNS – SELF-INTEREST

10. ANTI-PATTERNS – MINDSET

11. ANTI-PATTERN - DISTRIBUTING WORK
Analysts
Developers
Infrastructure
Testers

12. ANTI-PATTERNS – PASSIVE ATTITUDE

13. Enablers

14. PRACTICES, TIPS AND TRICKS
Mindset
Environments
Communication
Distributing Work
Toolset
ATDD
Test Automation
Reporting & Metrics
Defect Reporting
NFRs
Retrospectives

15. MINDSET
ONE PRODUCT,
ONE TEAM! KISS principle
Keep an open mind
Cross pollination, by
frequent rotation
Be positive
Trust your team(s)

16. COMMUNICATION
Talk
Video Conference Visual CommunicationChatting
Call and TalkSchedule Meeting

17. TOOLSETS
Project Collaboration
Testing
Continuous
Integration
(CI)
Dashboards
Defects,
Risks

18. TOOLSETS SHOULD AIM TO …
Project Collaboration
Testing
Continuous
Integration
(CI)
Dashboards
Defects,
Risks
Ease Communication
Common & Consistent
Flexible
Information Islands
Accessible to All
Overhead

19. ENVIRONMENTS
Test
Development
Automation
Test 1
Test 2
UAT
Performance Lab
Production

20. DISTRIBUTING WORK

21. REPORTING & METRICS
Meaningful
Shared View of progress
Is application
Getting better?
Valuable Vs Good to Have
Automated & Real-time
Visible to All

22. IPMS, SHOWCASES, RETROSPECTIVES

24. abagmar@gmail.com
Anand.Bagmar@thoughtworks.com
@BagmarAnand
about.me/anand.bagmar
THANK YOU