Agile Testing Quality Engineering

Presenter: Luk Lau Agile Coach, CSM, CSPO,

Innovation Games® Facilitator

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Today’s Conversation• What is Agile Quality Engineering• Agile Mindsets and Being Lean• Agile Quality Engineer's Value Proposition• Value Driven Quality and Scrum• Test Automation, Continuous Integration &

Continuous Deployment• Testing Effort "illities”• TDD, BDD & Exploratory Testing• Foundation of sustainability• Better ways to collaborate & innovate

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Testing & Agile

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Is Agile Testing about?• TDD• Test Automation• Exploratory Testing• BDD• ATDD

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Agility is a state

Agile Mindset

PracticesTesting

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Agile Testing is

Testing Quality Engineering with an Agile Mindset.

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Is Testing == Quality?

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• Build the right thing the right way -> Quality Product

• Agile allow us to do it more effectively and efficiently.

• So we can deliver the most business value in the shortest amount of time

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Agile Quality Engineering is• Understand & Define Quality• Quality Driven & Being First Class• Value Driven & Knowing Good Enough• Enable Collaboration & Detevestlopmenting• Zero Quality Control & Mistake Proofing• Continuously Improve Testability &

Shareability• Make Quality Traceable & Visible

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Agility is a state

Agile Mindset

PracticesTesting

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Agile Mindset

Scrum Values

Agile Values & Principles

Lean Principles

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Agile Values

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Agile Principles

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Game

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Scrum Values

Courage Openness Commitment

Focus Respect

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Lean Principles

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Agile Tester Quality Engineer’s Value Proposition

Facilitate and maintain clear requirement

Drive Quality & Value Driven

Culture

More Testing & Less

Checking

First Class Collaborator

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Facilitate and maintain clear requirement• Help Product Owner • Drive development with Acceptance instead of

at the receiving end• Maintain, evolve, improve shareability and

collective ownership of living specification• Drive effective & efficient story grooming. About

“What” instead of “How”• Write scenarios with Gherkin• Make requirement traceable• Be the master of facilitation

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Drive Quality & Value Driven Culture

• Define quality & associated value• Making “Working Software / Quality” visible • Make quality & testability an integral part of

development• "Ready Ready" & "Done Done"• Minimize WIP• Simplify and optimize testing processes

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More Testing & Less Checking

• Automated as much as possible with value• Refactor & maintain tests as living

specification• Effort Shifting • Practice Exploratory Testing• Prioritize & balance testing need & value• Identify & communicate testing intention• Engage all stakeholders to improve testability• Define and practice meaningful "ility tests"

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First Class Collaborator

• Communicate, Cooperate & Coordinate• Learn to facilitate & teach• Be a first class citizen of the team initiatively• Be cross functional & open to try different tasks• Connect with the team, organization & the testing

community• Promote & celebrate excellence• Continuous Improvement

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Practices to make your Scrum / Testing more effective & efficient

• Story Mapping• Need Better Story Slicing • Story Grooming (about what)• Testing Intention instead of testing script• Write Scenarios with Gherkin • “Ready Ready” • Limit WIP• “Done Done”• Automation• Daily Goal• Team Room & Visible 5 Levels of Planning (Vision,

Roadmap, Release, Iteration, Daily)

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Testing Pyramid

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Definition of QualityWhat is good enough & what is the value?

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Foundation of sustainabilityForming the critical mass

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Management’s Agile Mindset & Support

Better ways to collaborate & Innovate

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• Innovation Games®• Game Storming• Visual Thinking, Visual Meeting• Bla Bla Bla• Root Cause Analysis (e.g.5 Whys)• Hoshin Planning• Story Mapping

What are the testing challenges in your agile team you are facing?

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PollWhat size is your organization?

– 1-100– 100-500– 500-1000– 1000-2000– 2000+

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PollWhich best describes your role?

–Scrum Master–Product Owner–Manager–Team Member –Other

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PollHow would you rate your organization's Agile maturity on a scale of 1-5?  (1 being less mature and 5 more mature)

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Q&A

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