This document discusses awareness and how agile testing may lead to a wider awareness than traditional testing approaches. It suggests that agile testing focuses on raising awareness about what is known and can be changed versus what cannot be influenced. This wider awareness allows testers to choose their own path rather than just accept any path. While more choice is not always good, agile aims to provide an environment where testers can fully participate as "first class testers" with a potentially wider awareness than traditional testers. In the end, the document concludes that agile testers do not always have a wider awareness than traditional testers, but that agile practices can provide opportunities to develop awareness.

1. AGILE TESTING DAYS
Awareness Fields and
Agile Testing
By Rob Lambert

2. A story of
being stuck
in the
corporate
cog of
conformism

3. “With a narrow awareness,
you will be surprised often”
Tai Chi Master

4. An Agile Tester?

5. A Traditional Tester?

6. Do agile testers have wider
awareness than traditional
testers?
Is it the process?
Or the people?
Or not true at all?

7. Awareness is the ability to
feel, perceive, know and
be conscious of yourself
and the world around you.

10. Social Personal
(situational)

11. A wider awareness often leads to more choice

12. Awider awareness allow you to choose a path
……..rather than just accept any path

13. “When everyone in the team knows
what everyone else is doing, they
can co-ordinate efforts and avoid
unnecessary duplication of work”
Adrian Cho – The Jazz Process

14. “The first step toward change is
awareness. The second step is
acceptance.”
Nathaniel Branden

15. You need to
know
yourself

16. You need to
know
your
limits

17. Experiment with your own
ways of managing:
• What you already know / control
• What you can change / influence
• What you don’t know / out of control

24. Learning Roadmap

26. “Awareness increases our
knowledge and knowledge enriches
us”
Tony Schwartz – The Way We’re
Working Isn’t Working

27. Isn’t agile geared towards
raising awareness?
• What do we know? (is it right?)
• What can we change?
• What can’t we change?
• Are we building the right thing?
• Is the customer happy?
• How can we improve as a team?
…..And many more variations on this.

28. Remember all that choice?
Lots of
choice isn’t
always a
good thing

30. What if you’re running down
the wrong lane?

31. Social
Media
and social
tools are
modern
ways of
widening
awareness

32. Twitter

33. Communities

34. Reading Lists

35. Social Tagging

36. Do Agile Testers have
a wider awareness
than traditional?
Not always
But agile (or common sense
development) gives you an environment
to be a first class tester

37. References
INFORMATION OVERLOAD - http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/
MORE CHOICE - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ol1/
PATHS - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hockadilly/
KNOW YOURSELF - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrestlingentropy/
LIMIT - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cgc/
CHOICE - http://www.flickr.com/photos/harrymia/
WRONG LANE - http://www.flickr.com/photos/novecentino/