The document discusses challenges that testers face as development practices have become more agile. Specifically, it notes that the cost of fixing defects is lower under agile but the cost of overengineering has increased. It also suggests that testers should get involved earlier, collaborate more with developers, and focus on learning and teaching skills rather than just finding bugs. Automation is important but must be integrated into continuous integration practices. The document advocates for techniques like holding space, telling stories of early value, and focusing communications on business needs rather than just the team.

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Testing Becoming Harder to Be
Valuable
by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

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Cost of Quality
Cost of
appraisal
Cost of
prevention
Costs of
faults
Internal
costs of faults
External
costs of
faults
Quality costs
paid by
customer and
end user
Costs at development organization

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Agile Changed Many Things
Cost of correcting is down
Cost of overengineering is up
Complexities of systems are up
Costs still unequally distributed over issues

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Testers have a reputation amongst many
managers!

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Developers
got good at
testing!
Doing the same
again without
different eyes
In-team co-
operation
Reporting results,
not sharing test
ideas
Slow solo work
on information
collection
Automation but
not in CI

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Crowdsourcing

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Early *active* involvement
Collaboration
Creating test systems that
add to your power

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Short-term
Long-term
AVAILABILITY
TIMELINE
Productive Generative
RESULTS
Break illusions in a
timely fashion
Capture notes in
test automation
Test automation
people can use
when we’re gone
Improve skills
of everyone
Improve your skills
Learn to pair &
mob

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LOW HIGH
MEDIUM
Impact
Garbage collection
(reporting simple
bugs)
Changing the
organization
Learning Learning to teach
Collaboration not
co-creation
Ideas over
implementations

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Mentionworthy Techniques

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Holding Space

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Stories of Early Value

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Audience: Business
not Team

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2020 2016
MIATPP
Most Influential Agile Testing
Professional Person
#PayToSpeak #TechVoices
#EnsembleTesting #EnsembleProgramming #StrongStylePairing
#ExploratoryTesting #TestAutomation
#ModernAgile
#AwesomeTesters
Maaret Pyhäjärvi (from Finland)
Email: maaret@iki.fi
Twitter: @maaretp
Web: maaretp.com
Blog: visible-quality.blogspot.fi
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