The Life Of A Tester In An Agile Team - presented by Corey Haines at OpenAgile Romania conference eLiberatica 2009

1. What about me?
the life of a tester in an agile team
presented by
Corey Haines
at
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2. Where have we been?
Requirements
Design
Implementation
Verification
Release
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3. Major dysfunctional
pattern
Requirements
Design
Tester are ‘separate’
Implementation from ‘developers’
Tester involvement is
Verification
left to the end
Release
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4. Why is this Bad?
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5. Why is this Bad?
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6. Agile to the Rescue!
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7. What did we do?
Iterations
Story Cards
Incremental Design
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8. What did we do?
Iterations
Story Cards
Incremental Design
QA At End of Iteration
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9. Scrumerfall
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10. We often forget
it is easy to do
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11. Agile is not just about
the programmers
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12. Agile is about the
developers
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13. Developers make up a
development team
Customers
Analysts
Programmers
Testers
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14. What to talk about?
Agile Principles
Tester activities during
an iteration
Key Success Factors
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15. Corey Haines
Journeyman Developer
That’s Me!
www.coreyhaines.com
coreyhaines@gmail.com
@coreyhaines
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16. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
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17. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

18. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

19. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face
Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

20. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

21. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

22. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

23. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

24. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

25. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
Saturday, May 23, 2009

26. Agile Principles
Provide Continuous Feedback
Deliver Value to Customer
Enable Face-to-Face Communication
Have Courage
Keep It Simple
Practice Continuous Improvement
Respond to Change
Self-Organize
Focus on People
Enjoy!
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27. Role during iteration?
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28. Parts of Iteration
Release Planning
Iteration Planning / Kickoff
Iteration Wrap-Up
Coding and Testing
End-Game Testing Release
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29. Release Planning
Big Picture
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30. Release Planning
Sizing
Prioritizing
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31. Release Planning
Keep focus on value
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32. Release Planning
Planning
Tests
Test Environment
Test Data
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33. Release Planning
Visibility Planning
Test Plans
Defects
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34. Iteration Planning /
Kickoff
Automated Tests
Driving Examples
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35. Iteration Planning/Kickoff
Story Sizing
Testing Approach for Stories
Don’t bite off more
than you can finish
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36. Coding & Testing
Pair with Programmers on unit tests
Automated tests
Tests that critique
Regression Testing
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37. Coding & Testing
Bug Management
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38. Coding & Testing
Bug Management
To track or not,
that is the question!
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39. Coding & Testing
Facilitate Communication
between Customer
and Developer
Law of Three
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40. Wrap-Up Iteration
Demo
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41. Wrap-Up Iteration
Retrospectives
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42. Wrap-Up Iteration
Celebration!
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43. End-Game
Tester is very important here
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44. End-Game
Release Candidate
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45. End-Game
Staging
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46. End-Game
Nonfunctional
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47. End-Game
Integration
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48. End-Game
Data Conversion / Updates
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49. End-Game
Installation
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50. Key Success Factors
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51. Whole-Team Approach
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52. Adopt Agile Testing
Mind-set
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53. Automate Regression
Testing
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54. Provide & Obtain
Feedback
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55. Build a Foundation of
Core Practices
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56. Collaborate with
Customers
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57. Look at the Big Picture
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58. Thank You!
Contact Information:
www.coreyhaines.com
Thanks to
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