3. The Journey towards Agility
Critical Chain
Project
Management
Integration
Driven
Development
PracticesAGILITY
through
KANBAN
4. • Delays in
development
cascade to testing
• Large part of tests
continue to be
manual – slowing
down delivery
• Late defect
discovery
impacting
timelines & quality
Agile development – Rapid, incremental & Iterative
Challenges not very
different from the
waterfall world
Agile Testing becomes the
bottleneck – Agility remains
elusive
AGILE TESTING
CHALLENGE
5. Agile Testing Challenges
Agile Test Organization
• Adopt Test Driven
Approaches
• Moving from Silos to close
collaboration with business,
product owners & delivery
Test Automation
• New skills & tools
• Upfront Investment
• Technical Challenges
Integration
• Integrating scope from
several cross-functional
teams - When to test
integration & what
depth?
• Continuous Regression?
Non Functional Test
• Performance, Security,
U2U, B2B – can it be
run on small batches?
• Will they increase
overheads and costs?
• Certify scope with
iteration/sprint level
testing?
6. Agile Testing- What are we
trying?
Agile Test Organization
• Trainings and Coaching at
all levels
• Conferences, Certifications
• Agile Center of Excellence
Test Automation
• TDD
• Focus on automating regression
• ATDD Thinking
• Telco Building Blocks /
language aligned with BDD /
ATDD
Integration
• Agile Testing
Strategy Pyramid
• -- the earlier the
better
Non Functional
Test
• Still evolving
• What can be done
for early feedback
/ reduce pain?
7. Agile Testing- What are we
trying?
Evolving all the time
using the Kanban
Method
• Respect current roles &
responsibilities
• Start with where you
are now
• Safe experiments