The document discusses testing challenges for teams transitioning to agile and provides recommendations for addressing them. It recommends starting with automating frequent, time-consuming tasks to "stop the bleeding". It also suggests beginning pair testing and programming to facilitate collaboration between testers and developers. The document advocates filling in test automation over time using the test automation pyramid and testing quadrants frameworks as guides.

1. Testing Legacy Apps Dawn Cannan, agile tester

2. You are a tester on a team that is “going agile” or has “gone agile” Most testing has been people manually clicking and typing on the “QA Server” Bug reports have been filed and many ignored for a while, leading to a huge bug database The test team now has to figure out how to “go agile”, too Or, maybe you’re new to a team that has never had a tester or test team before Does this sound familiar?

3. So many “types” of testing, and how much of each do we need? What’s the “big picture”?

4. Test Automation Pyramid * Pyramid via Mike Cohn

5. Agile Testing Quadrants * Quadrants via Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory

6. Mike Cohn describes it well in a 3-step process Where do we start?

7. Stop the bleeding Identify frequent and time-consuming tasks Begin to automate them Begin to run them regularly “Hey developer, can you help me with this?”

8. Pair Testing

9. Start pair-developing (pair tester with dev) Start writing test automation with new features Regular builds or continuous integration “Done” means coded and tested (and documented, if needed) Stay Current

10. Pair Programming

11. Start to fill in automation of regression tests Some UI tests Many FitNesse/ integration tests LOTS OF unit tests Begin to refactor both code and tests Catch Up

12. Test Automation Pyramid (revisited) * Pyramid via Mike Cohn

13. Agile Testing Quadrants (revisited) * Quadrants via Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory

14. Collaboration

15. www.lisacrispin.com – Lisa Crispin www.janetgregory.ca – Janet Gregory www.exampler.com - Brian Marick www.testobsessed.com – Elisabeth Hendrickson www.mountaingoatsoftware.com – Mike Cohn gojko.net – GojkoAdzic www.passionatetester.com – me! www.testingreflections.com Agile Manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/ Agile Testing References