This document describes how a failing software project was turned around using agile principles. The project originally followed a waterfall approach but failed to deliver what users wanted. It was restarted using iterative development, active user involvement in testing and requirements development, co-location of team members, and oversight from a change control board including the project sponsor. These agile practices allowed the project to be delivered in increments that met user needs.
Establishing Release Quality Levels and Release Acceptance TestsConteneo Inc.
This document summarizes a presentation about establishing release quality levels and acceptance tests. It discusses defining quality as meeting user requirements and being free of defects. It presents frameworks for considering quality, including the traditional iron triangle of scope, schedule and cost, and expanding it to a quality box that also includes intrinsic quality and value. The presentation outlines setting release quality levels based on factors like testing and defects, and developing acceptance tests owned by product managers to define completion and allow for automated regression testing.
Looking to move to Continuous Delivery? Worried about the quality of your the code? Helping your developers understand clean-code practices and getting the right testing strategy in place can take a while. What should you do to control the quality of the incoming code till then? This talk shares our experience of using PRRiskAdvisor to gradually educate and influence developers to write better code and also help the code reviewer to be more effective at their reviews.
Every time a developer raises a pull-request, PRRiskAdvisor analyzes the files that were changed and publishes a report on the pull request itself with the overall risk associated with this pull request and also risk associated with each file. It also runs static code analysis using SonarQube and publishes the configured violations as comments on the pull request. This way the reviewer just has to look at the pull request to get a decent idea of what it means to review this pull request. If there are too many violations, then PRRiskAdvisor can also automatically reject the pull request.
By doing this, we saw our developers starting paying more attention to clean code practices and hence the overall quality of the incoming code improved, while we worked on putting the right engineering practices and testing strategy in place.
More details: https://confengine.com/last-conference-canberra-2018/proposal/7294/improving-the-quality-of-incoming-code
Conference Link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Panoramic Quality: The Fellowship of Testing in DevOpsBrendan Connolly
DevOps has expanded the opportunity for testers to become arbiters of quality. I'll share 3 core responsibilities of testers in DevOps: to know, protect, and verify. I'll establish a working definition of Quality Ownership and discuss its relationship to Product Ownership to help testers look beyond deriving quality from executing tests and shift instead towards becoming quality owners. Helping testers to find their path to enabling continuous quality, through pairing and sharing test ownership across the team while instilling value from pull request to production.
Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
Writing and maintaining a suite of acceptance tests that can give you a high level of confidence in the behaviour and configuration of your system is a complex task. In this session, Dave will describe approaches to acceptance testing that allow teams to:
work quickly and effectively
build excellent functional coverage for complex enterprise-scale systems
manage and maintain those tests in the face of change, and of evolution in both the codebase and the understanding of the business problem.
This workshop will answer the following questions, and more:
How do you fail fast?
How do you make your testing scalable?
How do you isolate test cases from one-another?
How do you maintain a working body of tests when you radically change the interface to your system?
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8539/acceptance-testing-for-continuous-delivery
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Jez Humble a...Agile India
This document discusses building and scaling high-performing technology organizations through agile practices and DevOps. It touches on topics like creating value streams across projects, challenges with going agile at an enterprise level, the importance of principles like test-driven development, and building a culture of learning from failures. It also provides links to research on metrics like lead time for changes and deploy frequency that correlate with high performance.
Muzammil Siddiqui is seeking a position as a software test engineer with over 4 years of experience in manual testing. He has expertise in manual and mobile application testing, functional testing, regression testing, and testing methodologies like Agile and V-Model. He is proficient in all phases of the testing life cycle from planning to defect tracking. He has experience testing web and mobile applications across different industries and platforms.
This document provides an introduction and overview for a course on test engineering foundations. It outlines the topics that will be covered in the course, including fundamentals of testing, testing throughout the software lifecycle, static and dynamic testing techniques, test management, and tool support for testing. It also describes the course materials, exercises and objectives. The goal is to help participants become more effective test professionals and obtain certification from the International Software Testing Qualifications Board.
How testers add value to the organization appium confCorina Pip
Testers add value to organizations by participating in requirements definition, technical discussions, and providing input to improve quality and testability. They help ensure requirements are clear and the developed features meet them by testing cases and automated tests. Testers prevent bugs, understand the role of automation in regression testing and fast delivery, and perform security, performance, accessibility, and other types of testing. Overall, testers help organizations achieve quality software and satisfy customers.
Establishing Release Quality Levels and Release Acceptance TestsConteneo Inc.
This document summarizes a presentation about establishing release quality levels and acceptance tests. It discusses defining quality as meeting user requirements and being free of defects. It presents frameworks for considering quality, including the traditional iron triangle of scope, schedule and cost, and expanding it to a quality box that also includes intrinsic quality and value. The presentation outlines setting release quality levels based on factors like testing and defects, and developing acceptance tests owned by product managers to define completion and allow for automated regression testing.
Looking to move to Continuous Delivery? Worried about the quality of your the code? Helping your developers understand clean-code practices and getting the right testing strategy in place can take a while. What should you do to control the quality of the incoming code till then? This talk shares our experience of using PRRiskAdvisor to gradually educate and influence developers to write better code and also help the code reviewer to be more effective at their reviews.
Every time a developer raises a pull-request, PRRiskAdvisor analyzes the files that were changed and publishes a report on the pull request itself with the overall risk associated with this pull request and also risk associated with each file. It also runs static code analysis using SonarQube and publishes the configured violations as comments on the pull request. This way the reviewer just has to look at the pull request to get a decent idea of what it means to review this pull request. If there are too many violations, then PRRiskAdvisor can also automatically reject the pull request.
By doing this, we saw our developers starting paying more attention to clean code practices and hence the overall quality of the incoming code improved, while we worked on putting the right engineering practices and testing strategy in place.
More details: https://confengine.com/last-conference-canberra-2018/proposal/7294/improving-the-quality-of-incoming-code
Conference Link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Panoramic Quality: The Fellowship of Testing in DevOpsBrendan Connolly
DevOps has expanded the opportunity for testers to become arbiters of quality. I'll share 3 core responsibilities of testers in DevOps: to know, protect, and verify. I'll establish a working definition of Quality Ownership and discuss its relationship to Product Ownership to help testers look beyond deriving quality from executing tests and shift instead towards becoming quality owners. Helping testers to find their path to enabling continuous quality, through pairing and sharing test ownership across the team while instilling value from pull request to production.
Acceptance Testing for Continuous Delivery by Dave Farley at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
Writing and maintaining a suite of acceptance tests that can give you a high level of confidence in the behaviour and configuration of your system is a complex task. In this session, Dave will describe approaches to acceptance testing that allow teams to:
work quickly and effectively
build excellent functional coverage for complex enterprise-scale systems
manage and maintain those tests in the face of change, and of evolution in both the codebase and the understanding of the business problem.
This workshop will answer the following questions, and more:
How do you fail fast?
How do you make your testing scalable?
How do you isolate test cases from one-another?
How do you maintain a working body of tests when you radically change the interface to your system?
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8539/acceptance-testing-for-continuous-delivery
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Jez Humble a...Agile India
This document discusses building and scaling high-performing technology organizations through agile practices and DevOps. It touches on topics like creating value streams across projects, challenges with going agile at an enterprise level, the importance of principles like test-driven development, and building a culture of learning from failures. It also provides links to research on metrics like lead time for changes and deploy frequency that correlate with high performance.
Muzammil Siddiqui is seeking a position as a software test engineer with over 4 years of experience in manual testing. He has expertise in manual and mobile application testing, functional testing, regression testing, and testing methodologies like Agile and V-Model. He is proficient in all phases of the testing life cycle from planning to defect tracking. He has experience testing web and mobile applications across different industries and platforms.
This document provides an introduction and overview for a course on test engineering foundations. It outlines the topics that will be covered in the course, including fundamentals of testing, testing throughout the software lifecycle, static and dynamic testing techniques, test management, and tool support for testing. It also describes the course materials, exercises and objectives. The goal is to help participants become more effective test professionals and obtain certification from the International Software Testing Qualifications Board.
How testers add value to the organization appium confCorina Pip
Testers add value to organizations by participating in requirements definition, technical discussions, and providing input to improve quality and testability. They help ensure requirements are clear and the developed features meet them by testing cases and automated tests. Testers prevent bugs, understand the role of automation in regression testing and fast delivery, and perform security, performance, accessibility, and other types of testing. Overall, testers help organizations achieve quality software and satisfy customers.
Creating a successful continuous testing environment by Eran KinsbrunerQA or the Highway
This document discusses continuous testing and provides an overview of key concepts. It defines continuous testing as executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to rapidly obtain feedback on release candidates. The benefits of continuous testing discussed include fast feedback, continuous visibility, and testing that matches different skill levels. It also covers topics like test authoring best practices, key performance indicators for continuous testing, and the potential future role of machine learning. Continuous testing is presented as a way to mature an organization's path toward DevOps practices.
Vincent Spena - Agile and Lean Methods for Hardware Product DevelopmentVincent Spena
The document discusses applying Kanban and iterative incremental development (IID) approaches to hardware product development. It proposes using prototypes as stages to incrementally develop the product. Requirements to be met at each prototype stage should be defined upfront. Kanban can then track each team's progress on requirements for each prototype stage. Metrics like the number of passed/failed requirements compared to plan can identify risks. This allows measuring development progress to control the process, similar to measuring production flow in Kanban.
The document discusses testing basics, including the need for testing software to ensure it is free from defects and meets requirements. The goals of testing are to check data completeness, transformations, quality, and performance. Testing aims to increase confidence in proper software functioning and avoid huge losses. Different types of testing are described, as well as the test life cycle and models like waterfall, spiral, incremental, and V-model. The document provides an overview of software testing fundamentals.
Quality Assurance to Test Engineering – Insights From our Journey by Oksana S...QA or the Highway
This document discusses the transformation of a QA organization to a test engineering organization. It provides historical context on the evolution of testing techniques from the 1970s to present. It then details the specific transformation journey the organization took, including providing awareness training, mentorship, skills assessments, hiring test engineers, and establishing partnerships with offshore test engineering firms. The results were removing barriers between manual and automation testing, enabling more associates to use automation, and shifting testing upstream. Future trends of testing as a developer responsibility and increasing automation are also discussed.
1) In 2001, 17 people met to discuss lightweight software development methods, with only one person having a major interest in testing. This meeting helped establish agile methodologies but did not explicitly mention testing.
2) Early versions of agile testing focused on developers automating unit tests, with the view that testers roles would diminish. However, testers argued for the importance of other testing types like exploratory testing.
3) Over time, agile testing evolved to recognize different testing skills like test design, defect management, and exploratory testing. Automation tools also advanced to support both manual and automated testing by different roles within agile teams.
Software Testing is a very time consuming activity and consumes enormous amount of effort in any software project. It makes sense to improve productivity of software testing as well as to reduce the defect density in the software, so that overall economy in the project is achieved. In order to do this, we need to understand the defects, their root causes and be able to predict their outcome in advance during estimation.
This presentation by Oaksys is an attempt to share its experience of over 10 years (1998-2008) with the practitioners.
DevOps is a cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and IT operations professionals. This improves workflow flexibility and the ability to change quickly without compromising quality. Testing is a key part of DevOps that allows for faster, cheaper, and better software delivery through automated testing and continuous feedback loops. Testing ensures flow and value are not disrupted, bringing step change improvements to performance, cost, and flexibility.
Agile vs. DevOps for Continuous Testing: How to Optimize Your PipelinePerfecto by Perforce
The document discusses optimizing continuous testing in DevOps pipelines. It begins by defining continuous testing as executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain feedback on business risks. It then covers challenges to continuous testing like lack of test stability. The key to success is having a unified solution that addresses the pillars of continuous testing: the test lab, execution, creation, and analysis. Personas like business testers, SDETs, and developers must be supported. Metrics should measure testing and pipeline activities. Codeless testing is introduced as complementing code-based testing by allowing automated tests to be created without writing code.
A history and practical guide to Agile quality, mobile automation and risk-based testing strategies.
The role of software testing in the development process has evolved. No longer do testers validate only features and functionality. They play an integral role shaping the quality of the user experience — sussing out logical holes in the development and recommending adjustments to better serve users.
The resources available to testers have changed too. From mobile automation to sniffing tools. We analyze the current state of software testing and how teams must adapt to better serve users within their project budget.
+ Download our interactive device matrix and project quality overview tool, complete with visualizations for defect trends, issue severity and close rate data.
This document discusses test escape analysis (TEA), which analyzes defects that escaped testing to help improve testing efficiency. TEA examines past defects to identify patterns and trends, such as which test types or techniques could have caught which defects earlier. The benefits of early defect detection through improved testing are reduced costs, reputation, and engineer workload. TEA data from defect histories can show where to apply testing resources and procedure changes for maximum return.
DevOps is a set of lean development principles, delivery automation tools, and cloud practices that helps technology teams solve challenges around delivery speed and cost containment. DevOps provides visibility, enhances productivity, improves quality, and increases delivery cadence. DevOps touches every aspect of IT delivery including architecture, continuous deployment, delivery, operations, testing, integration, infrastructure, security, culture, and planning. For testers, DevOps presents opportunities to contribute to increased velocity through automation skills and incremental testing approaches, while being ready to take on more testing responsibilities.
- The document discusses the growth of the QA team at North from 1 person to 18 full-time employees and 2 co-ops over 3 years. It describes challenges faced such as hiring candidates and establishing processes as the team grew rapidly. Lessons learned include starting with basic tools, focusing on lightweight processes, and tailoring interviews and challenges to the role. The future includes expanding test automation and driving quality practices earlier in development.
This document contains the resume of Jim Rinehart, who has over 30 years of experience in quality engineering, manufacturing, and product design. He has extensive training and certifications in quality management systems and processes like APQP, FMEA, PPAP, and Lean Six Sigma. His work experience includes roles as Quality Manager, Corporate Quality Engineer, Technical Coordinator, Consulting, and various engineering positions at several manufacturing companies. He has a background in mechanical engineering technology, CAD, and tool and die design.
The document summarizes a presentation from the ASME Chapter at UC Irvine on Solidworks and mechanical engineering. It discusses using Solidworks for product design, prototyping, manufacturing, and collaboration. Key topics covered include designing for manufacturability, leveraging 3D modeling to validate designs and cut costs/time, and using platforms like GitHub for version control and project management across multi-disciplinary teams. Advice is given on skills needed for mechanical engineering careers, such as learning CAD software beyond Solidworks and preparing to work with international manufacturers.
I believe that our existing models of testing are not fit for purpose – they are inconsistent, controversial, partial, proprietary and stuck in the past. They are not going to support us in the rapidly emerging technologies and approaches. The certification schemes that should represent the interests and integrity of our profession don’t, and we are left with schemes that are popular, but have low value, lower esteem and attract harsh criticism. My goal in proposing the New Model is to stimulate new thinking in this area.
eurostarconferences.com
testhuddle.com
Continuous testing & devops with @petemar5hallPeter Marshall
This document discusses testing software in high frequency delivery environments using continuous testing and DevOps practices. It outlines how continuous testing is not just about test automation, but also includes automated management of environments, application feedback through monitoring, and engaging in XP practices. DevOps helps by automating building, testing, and deployment to provide consistency and tools for teams. Characteristics of high frequency delivery environments include automating infrastructure, testing, and deployment to reduce errors and allow for smaller, more frequent deliveries. This allows for a single view of quality and faster restore times when issues arise.
Software test automation continues to be a huge challenge to achieving continuous testing in DevOps. Test flakiness and code maintenance — together with the complexity of automating advanced scenarios in shrunken timelines — has created a need for a next-generation test automation solution.
Test Design for Fully Automated Build ArchitectureTechWell
This document summarizes a half-day tutorial on test design for fully automated build architectures presented by Melissa Benua of mParticle at STAREAST 2018. The tutorial covered guiding principles for test design including prioritizing important and reliable tests, structuring automated pipelines around components, packages, and releases, and monitoring test results through code coverage, flaky test handling, and logging versus counters. It also included exercises mapping test cases to functional boundaries and categories of tests to pipeline stages.
Software testing tools are evolving. More testing frameworks are emerging through the open source community and commercial vendors. In addition, we’re starting to see the rise of machine-learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in testing solutions.
Given this evolution, it is important to map the tools that match both the practitioners’ skills and their testing types. When referring to the testing practitioners, we mainly look at three different personas:
-The business tester
-The software developer in test (SDET)
-The software developer
These practitioners are tasked with creating, maintaining, and executing unit tests, build acceptance tests, integration, regression, and other nonfunctional tests.
In this webinar led by Perfecto’s Chief Evangelist, Eran Kinsbruner, you will learn the following:
-How should testing types be dispersed among the three personas and throughout the DevOps pipeline?
-What tools should each of these three personas use for the creation and execution of tests?
-What are the key benefits to continuous testing when mapped correctly?
ArtMole is a web based portal emanating from the experiences of a group of people who use art, work with art, understand the importance of art & are artists. It reflects the aspirations & desire for innovation of a collective, who want to provide a venue for art & art lovers to come together to peruse, to conduct business & to build new & unique partnerships providing a complete life cycle.
The document discusses Lean Manufacturing. It began in the automobile industry but has expanded to other industries. Lean aims to reduce waste and use fewer resources to produce the same output. The core principles are to specify value, identify the value stream, make the products flow without interruptions, have customers pull products as needed, and continuously improve. Key tools include 5S, cellular manufacturing, jidoka, and kaizen for continuous improvement. The ultimate goal is to maximize value while minimizing waste.
Creating a successful continuous testing environment by Eran KinsbrunerQA or the Highway
This document discusses continuous testing and provides an overview of key concepts. It defines continuous testing as executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to rapidly obtain feedback on release candidates. The benefits of continuous testing discussed include fast feedback, continuous visibility, and testing that matches different skill levels. It also covers topics like test authoring best practices, key performance indicators for continuous testing, and the potential future role of machine learning. Continuous testing is presented as a way to mature an organization's path toward DevOps practices.
Vincent Spena - Agile and Lean Methods for Hardware Product DevelopmentVincent Spena
The document discusses applying Kanban and iterative incremental development (IID) approaches to hardware product development. It proposes using prototypes as stages to incrementally develop the product. Requirements to be met at each prototype stage should be defined upfront. Kanban can then track each team's progress on requirements for each prototype stage. Metrics like the number of passed/failed requirements compared to plan can identify risks. This allows measuring development progress to control the process, similar to measuring production flow in Kanban.
The document discusses testing basics, including the need for testing software to ensure it is free from defects and meets requirements. The goals of testing are to check data completeness, transformations, quality, and performance. Testing aims to increase confidence in proper software functioning and avoid huge losses. Different types of testing are described, as well as the test life cycle and models like waterfall, spiral, incremental, and V-model. The document provides an overview of software testing fundamentals.
Quality Assurance to Test Engineering – Insights From our Journey by Oksana S...QA or the Highway
This document discusses the transformation of a QA organization to a test engineering organization. It provides historical context on the evolution of testing techniques from the 1970s to present. It then details the specific transformation journey the organization took, including providing awareness training, mentorship, skills assessments, hiring test engineers, and establishing partnerships with offshore test engineering firms. The results were removing barriers between manual and automation testing, enabling more associates to use automation, and shifting testing upstream. Future trends of testing as a developer responsibility and increasing automation are also discussed.
1) In 2001, 17 people met to discuss lightweight software development methods, with only one person having a major interest in testing. This meeting helped establish agile methodologies but did not explicitly mention testing.
2) Early versions of agile testing focused on developers automating unit tests, with the view that testers roles would diminish. However, testers argued for the importance of other testing types like exploratory testing.
3) Over time, agile testing evolved to recognize different testing skills like test design, defect management, and exploratory testing. Automation tools also advanced to support both manual and automated testing by different roles within agile teams.
Software Testing is a very time consuming activity and consumes enormous amount of effort in any software project. It makes sense to improve productivity of software testing as well as to reduce the defect density in the software, so that overall economy in the project is achieved. In order to do this, we need to understand the defects, their root causes and be able to predict their outcome in advance during estimation.
This presentation by Oaksys is an attempt to share its experience of over 10 years (1998-2008) with the practitioners.
DevOps is a cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and IT operations professionals. This improves workflow flexibility and the ability to change quickly without compromising quality. Testing is a key part of DevOps that allows for faster, cheaper, and better software delivery through automated testing and continuous feedback loops. Testing ensures flow and value are not disrupted, bringing step change improvements to performance, cost, and flexibility.
Agile vs. DevOps for Continuous Testing: How to Optimize Your PipelinePerfecto by Perforce
The document discusses optimizing continuous testing in DevOps pipelines. It begins by defining continuous testing as executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain feedback on business risks. It then covers challenges to continuous testing like lack of test stability. The key to success is having a unified solution that addresses the pillars of continuous testing: the test lab, execution, creation, and analysis. Personas like business testers, SDETs, and developers must be supported. Metrics should measure testing and pipeline activities. Codeless testing is introduced as complementing code-based testing by allowing automated tests to be created without writing code.
A history and practical guide to Agile quality, mobile automation and risk-based testing strategies.
The role of software testing in the development process has evolved. No longer do testers validate only features and functionality. They play an integral role shaping the quality of the user experience — sussing out logical holes in the development and recommending adjustments to better serve users.
The resources available to testers have changed too. From mobile automation to sniffing tools. We analyze the current state of software testing and how teams must adapt to better serve users within their project budget.
+ Download our interactive device matrix and project quality overview tool, complete with visualizations for defect trends, issue severity and close rate data.
This document discusses test escape analysis (TEA), which analyzes defects that escaped testing to help improve testing efficiency. TEA examines past defects to identify patterns and trends, such as which test types or techniques could have caught which defects earlier. The benefits of early defect detection through improved testing are reduced costs, reputation, and engineer workload. TEA data from defect histories can show where to apply testing resources and procedure changes for maximum return.
DevOps is a set of lean development principles, delivery automation tools, and cloud practices that helps technology teams solve challenges around delivery speed and cost containment. DevOps provides visibility, enhances productivity, improves quality, and increases delivery cadence. DevOps touches every aspect of IT delivery including architecture, continuous deployment, delivery, operations, testing, integration, infrastructure, security, culture, and planning. For testers, DevOps presents opportunities to contribute to increased velocity through automation skills and incremental testing approaches, while being ready to take on more testing responsibilities.
- The document discusses the growth of the QA team at North from 1 person to 18 full-time employees and 2 co-ops over 3 years. It describes challenges faced such as hiring candidates and establishing processes as the team grew rapidly. Lessons learned include starting with basic tools, focusing on lightweight processes, and tailoring interviews and challenges to the role. The future includes expanding test automation and driving quality practices earlier in development.
This document contains the resume of Jim Rinehart, who has over 30 years of experience in quality engineering, manufacturing, and product design. He has extensive training and certifications in quality management systems and processes like APQP, FMEA, PPAP, and Lean Six Sigma. His work experience includes roles as Quality Manager, Corporate Quality Engineer, Technical Coordinator, Consulting, and various engineering positions at several manufacturing companies. He has a background in mechanical engineering technology, CAD, and tool and die design.
The document summarizes a presentation from the ASME Chapter at UC Irvine on Solidworks and mechanical engineering. It discusses using Solidworks for product design, prototyping, manufacturing, and collaboration. Key topics covered include designing for manufacturability, leveraging 3D modeling to validate designs and cut costs/time, and using platforms like GitHub for version control and project management across multi-disciplinary teams. Advice is given on skills needed for mechanical engineering careers, such as learning CAD software beyond Solidworks and preparing to work with international manufacturers.
I believe that our existing models of testing are not fit for purpose – they are inconsistent, controversial, partial, proprietary and stuck in the past. They are not going to support us in the rapidly emerging technologies and approaches. The certification schemes that should represent the interests and integrity of our profession don’t, and we are left with schemes that are popular, but have low value, lower esteem and attract harsh criticism. My goal in proposing the New Model is to stimulate new thinking in this area.
eurostarconferences.com
testhuddle.com
Continuous testing & devops with @petemar5hallPeter Marshall
This document discusses testing software in high frequency delivery environments using continuous testing and DevOps practices. It outlines how continuous testing is not just about test automation, but also includes automated management of environments, application feedback through monitoring, and engaging in XP practices. DevOps helps by automating building, testing, and deployment to provide consistency and tools for teams. Characteristics of high frequency delivery environments include automating infrastructure, testing, and deployment to reduce errors and allow for smaller, more frequent deliveries. This allows for a single view of quality and faster restore times when issues arise.
Software test automation continues to be a huge challenge to achieving continuous testing in DevOps. Test flakiness and code maintenance — together with the complexity of automating advanced scenarios in shrunken timelines — has created a need for a next-generation test automation solution.
Test Design for Fully Automated Build ArchitectureTechWell
This document summarizes a half-day tutorial on test design for fully automated build architectures presented by Melissa Benua of mParticle at STAREAST 2018. The tutorial covered guiding principles for test design including prioritizing important and reliable tests, structuring automated pipelines around components, packages, and releases, and monitoring test results through code coverage, flaky test handling, and logging versus counters. It also included exercises mapping test cases to functional boundaries and categories of tests to pipeline stages.
Software testing tools are evolving. More testing frameworks are emerging through the open source community and commercial vendors. In addition, we’re starting to see the rise of machine-learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in testing solutions.
Given this evolution, it is important to map the tools that match both the practitioners’ skills and their testing types. When referring to the testing practitioners, we mainly look at three different personas:
-The business tester
-The software developer in test (SDET)
-The software developer
These practitioners are tasked with creating, maintaining, and executing unit tests, build acceptance tests, integration, regression, and other nonfunctional tests.
In this webinar led by Perfecto’s Chief Evangelist, Eran Kinsbruner, you will learn the following:
-How should testing types be dispersed among the three personas and throughout the DevOps pipeline?
-What tools should each of these three personas use for the creation and execution of tests?
-What are the key benefits to continuous testing when mapped correctly?
ArtMole is a web based portal emanating from the experiences of a group of people who use art, work with art, understand the importance of art & are artists. It reflects the aspirations & desire for innovation of a collective, who want to provide a venue for art & art lovers to come together to peruse, to conduct business & to build new & unique partnerships providing a complete life cycle.
The document discusses Lean Manufacturing. It began in the automobile industry but has expanded to other industries. Lean aims to reduce waste and use fewer resources to produce the same output. The core principles are to specify value, identify the value stream, make the products flow without interruptions, have customers pull products as needed, and continuously improve. Key tools include 5S, cellular manufacturing, jidoka, and kaizen for continuous improvement. The ultimate goal is to maximize value while minimizing waste.
The Vision Quest Seminar Series is a 5-phase curriculum designed to increase high school retention rates by helping students overcome challenges and build confidence. The phases work to dispel myths about high school, identify learning styles, improve organization skills, build self-esteem, and illustrate students' envisioned futures through creative projects. The goal is to motivate students and demonstrate how graduating high school can open opportunities.
YuryMakedonov_STP_2006_TestingCycles_05slidesYury M
The document discusses different types of "testing cycles" that can occur during software development and testing. It describes "real testing cycles" which group test cases into logical cycles, as well as "defect fixing cycles", "code fixing cycles", "design fixing cycles", and "requirements fixing cycles" that occur when defects are found and fixes are made. It notes that explicit "testing cycles" are not used in agile development processes. The document aims to help testers better understand and manage these cycles when they occur.
YuryMakedonov_GUI_TestAutomation_QAI_Canada_2007_14hYury M
This document summarizes a presentation on foundations of GUI test automation. The presentation covers mainstream GUI testing tools, major test automation approaches and frameworks, and the test automation process. It is intended for those involved in GUI test automation performed by independent testing teams, including specialists, testers, and managers. The presentation compares developers' testing to independent functional testing and discusses automated testing versus regression test automation. It also addresses myths about the expense of commercial GUI testing tools.
YuryMakedonov_TesTrek2013_AndroidTesting_12u_slidesYury M
This document provides an outline for a workshop on testing Android applications. The workshop is intended for testers with experience testing other types of applications who are new to mobile. The outline includes an introduction to the presenter's background in testing including an Android to-do list app. It also covers general testing approaches, installation of Android apps, fragmentation issues, accessing app data, tools for testing, and sources of additional test ideas.
The document summarizes Jean Piaget's four stages of cognitive development:
1) Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years) where intelligence develops through physical interactions and experiences without symbols.
2) Pre-operational stage (2 to 7 years) where symbols and language develop but thinking is non-logical.
3) Concrete operational stage (7 to 11 years) where logical and systematic thinking about concrete objects develops.
4) Formal operational stage (11 years to adulthood) where logical thinking with abstract concepts develops but some egocentric thought returns.
YuryMakedonov_TesTrek2013_ValueOfGUITestAutomation_09_handoutsYury M
This document discusses defining the value of GUI test automation. It begins by outlining the target audience and topics to be covered, including the relationship between functional testing and GUI test automation, challenges in calculating return on investment, and defining goals and metrics for test automation. It then discusses the GUI test automation process and cost breakdown. Finally, it considers priorities of a software development organization and customers of a test automation team when defining the value of test automation.
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Introduction of the case study
Challenges of this project.
Description of the actual process that was used for the
successful completion of this project. The following
critical success factors will be discussed:
Active involvement of the project sponsor, fast decision
making.
Active user involvement, instant feedback
Co-location, effective communication
Iterative and incremental development in a customer
selected order.
Comparison of this process to current agile thinking.
Agenda
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Story of a real life software project
It was a new application for a sales department
(~100 people) of a division of a big company.
The goal of this department was to configure and sell
telecommunication products.
The new application was to replace an existing
legacy Client/Server application.
The modern web application was to have a sexy web
interface and more functionality.
This department did not have an established software
acquisition/implementation process.
The vendor was a start-up company trying to
establish itself. 10-15 developers were working on
this project initially.
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History
This project followed a classic review and sign-off
approach:
Requirements were reviewed and signed off
Design of the system was reviewed and signed off
Specifications were reviewed and signed off
Development was finished and tested by a vendor
The first attempt to deliver the application to the
customer failed. Customer’s reaction was:
“This is not what we wanted!”
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Customer: “This is not what we wanted!”
How was this possible despite the rigorous process
of walkthroughs and sign-offs?
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Why did this happen?
The following assumptions are paramount to the
success of the review process:
All steps are relatively defect free.
Efficiency of defect detection by these reviews is
high.
Defect removal efficiency is high.
Unfortunately these assumptions are not valid 100%
of the time.
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Root cause of this problem
Let’s take a look at what really happened:
The Business Analyst (BA) talked to users and
stakeholders.
Users and stakeholders explained what they
needed.
Business Analyst got a perception that he
understood these users.
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Root cause of this problem
In reality the users and the Business Analyst were
speaking different languages:
they used different meanings of the same English
words,
considered different contexts,
made different assumptions.
As a result the Business Analyst significantly
misinterpreted the application users’ needs and
created a flawed requirements document.
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Actual review and sign-off process
This requirements document was then sent back to
the users for review:
Business users got a perception that they
understood the requirements document.
They provided some comments and, after their
concerns were addressed, they signed off on the
requirements document.
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Actual review and sign-off process
But remember, the business users and the Business
Analyst were speaking different languages!
So these modifications were irrelevant to the quality
of the requirements document and major flaws were
missed by the reviewers.
We see that in this case the review/sign off process
was useless and only wasted valuable time.
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History
Customer: “This is not what we wanted!”
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Episode II - One more attempt
The requirements were modified using the same
review/sign off approach.
The vendor implemented these updated
requirements.
To make the acceptance process more organized
the customer brought in an external Test Manager to
supervise the user acceptance testing.
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Development of acceptance test cases
End users were brought to the project team to
develop acceptance test cases to verify the
requirements.
Some of them worked on commission and special
arrangements about their salaries were required.
They started working together with “professional”
testers and were trained on how to develop test
cases.
Users were asked to use their own language when
writing these test cases. They ranked all existing
requirements and started developing test cases for
the most important requirements.
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Development of acceptance test cases
The first version of the test cases was
incomprehensible for professional testers and
developers.
The test cases were modified and the second
version could be understood by both testers and
developers.
Further on these acceptance test cases came to be
used instead of the original requirements.
These test cases still had many errors but
nevertheless were much better than original and
revised “requirements.”
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Start of testing
Users started testing as soon as acceptance test
cases for the major functions were developed.
The first round of testing was a complete disaster:
Most test cases failed.
It was impossible even to initiate execution of
many test cases - they depended on successful
executions of other test cases.
Many “Severity 1” and “Severity 2” defects were
recorded (high severity defects).
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Status of the project
It was
already the
second
iteration.
Apparently
we had
almost all
the right
pieces but
could not fit
the puzzle
together!
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Pilot and Release 1
There was an extensive discussion with the project sponsor,
developers and end users (acceptance testers).
A decision was made to break all functions into two releases:
Pilot:
Bare minimum functionality - not even all the functions
of the legacy application were implemented.
Pilot was inferior to the existing legacy application and
could not be used in real production.
Its goal was to show the release to a wider community
of sales people.
Release 1:
Fully functional product with all remaining features.
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Change Control Board established
To better manage this project a “Change Control
Board” was established. It consisted of:
the project sponsor,
users of the application (acceptance testers) and
the developers’ managers.
The Board approved a list of defects (including
several missing functions) to be fixed for the “Pilot”
release.
Only defects of the highest severities (“Severity 1”
and “Severity 2”) were to be fixed.
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Defects fixing
Developers were not allowed to fix any defect or
implement any new feature without the approval of
this board.
The developers were allowed to work only on
defects of the highest priority:
defects fixing of wich was essential for the “Pilot”
implementation, and
defects that prevented the execution of major test
cases.
The repair of not so severe defects was postponed
despite the developers’ promises that some of them
required “only 10 to 30 minutes to fix.”
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Role of end users
The vendor had daily builds delivered for testing.
End users (acceptance testers) were available to
clarify specific details of test cases (requirements)
and defect reports for developers.
Those clarifications were important because initially
the developers had a lot of problems interpreting the
test cases and defect reports.
Development of new acceptance test cases
continued.
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Role of end users
Why were end users more efficient at developing
and executing test cases?
They have working knowledge of their business –
how to configure a product and create an order.
They were able to use their knowledge better when
creating and executing test cases than when talking
to a business analyst and trying to understand his
gibberish language.
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Release of end users
Initially four end users were used full time for four weeks
to develop these acceptance test cases and to start
testing the application.
After four initial weeks professional testers were able to
execute these acceptance test cases, and the four
business users were gradually released back to their
main jobs.
Nevertheless, one of these business users, on a
rotational basis, was working with testers and developers
every day.
The remaining business users were available for phone
consultations. Unfortunately this arrangement was not as
good as having them on site. They had their own
responsibilities and as a result their response time was
not as good as when they were working on site.
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Change Control Board role
New test cases, which were essentially new
requirements, were reviewed and approved by the same
Change Control Board.
The Board discussed:
Progress of testing,
Fixed defects,
New discovered defects,
Defects reported as fixed by developers that were
“failed” by acceptance testers.
Priority of remaining defects and additional “new” defects
were reviewed and revaluated every day.
Developers were allowed to work only on defects of
highest priority in this stack!
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Change Control Board
During the first week, the Control Board was
meeting every day under the direction of the project
sponsor.
Initially the project sponsor said that he had no time
to attend these daily meetings, but was told that
without his involvement he would not get the project
implemented.
Project sponsor involvement allowed all required
decisions to be made really fast.
After the first week the Control Board continued
meeting every day.
The project sponsor chaired it twice a week and
then once a week until the “Pilot” was implemented.
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Pilot, Release 1 and Release 2
After the end of Pilot a decision was made to break
“Release 1” into:
Release 1:
about the same functionality as the legacy
application plus a couple of new features.
Release 2:
remaining features of original “Release 1”.
For two weeks the Pilot was used by a wider
community of users concurrently with the legacy
application
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Release 1
“Release 1” was developed using about the same
approach.
The frequency of Change Control Board meetings
was changed to twice a week.
The project sponsor was chairing this Change
Control Board once a week.
“Release 1” was finally implemented almost two
years after project initiation instead of less than a
year as was originally planned.
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Release 2
The scope of “Release 2” was reviewed based on
first results of “Release 1” in production.
Some features were removed.
Other new features were added.
In four months “Release 2” was developed and
implemented using about the same approach.
For the last 3 years this application was in
production with just minor modifications. This project
was recognised as a success despite all original
problems.
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Summary
What allowed for an efficient turnaround of this project:
Active involvement of the project sponsor, fast
decision making.
Active user involvement, instant feedback
Co-location, effective communication
Iterative and incremental development in a customer
selected order.
These are:
core principles of different modern agile software
development methods and at the same time
common-sense principles that started being used
many years ago by successful software managers.
The same approach is recommended for any project of a
similar complexity.
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Contact information
Yury Makedonov, CSTE, CSQA
Senior Technical Consultant
Centre for Testing and Quality
CGI services to BCE
125 Commerce Valley Drive West, Floor 6B,
Markham, ON, L3T7W4
(905) 762-2705 – office,
(647) 224-6619 – cell
yury.makedonov@cgi.com
http://www.cgi.com
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Appendix - literature
You can find more information on agile processes,
for example, in:
Kevin, J. Aguanno (editor), “Managing Agile
Projects“.
http://www.agilealliance.org/articles/index
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Appendix - Test team organization
How the whole test team was organized:
Business users were developing “scenario like”
test cases which required their intimate
knowledge of business processes.
Professional testers concentrated on classical
valid/invalid test cases, boundary conditions, etc.
There was even one person working on GUI test
automation. He focused of automation of “Smoke
testing” or “Acceptance into testing” tests - a
small set of test cases that was executed as soon
as a new build was delivered for testing.