A Test Management Christmas Carol

Scrooge’s Testing Christmas

About Us

Ben Williams –

Tom Roden –

Test manager is not the same as

Test management

The Ghost Of Test management past

Analysis

Blue sky, thought showering ideation

Development

Implement

All conceivable testing

UtterlyImmovableLive Date

All conceivable testing, hey maybe even unit testing

Test Planning

Test Estimation Techniques

Exploratory testing =Smoke testing =

Stress testing = Penetration testing =

We say… They hear…

Step 1. Remove brain

Step 2. Login to Quality Centre

Step 3. Follow 67 more steps without looking at how the application is behaving

Step 4. Test fails for reason unrelated to test step

Step 5. Step 4 does not compute, enter tight loop until sickness or darkness descends

If the test didn’t find the defect, does the defect really exist?

Stay On Target

The Ghost Of Test Management Present

Agile is still on the increase

Computer Weekly Jobs, 8th November 2012

There is no prescribed Test Manager role in Agile methods

What does this mean?

Has the role changed?•

How many have experienced a change?

lots of people almost no-one

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The Ghost Of Test Management Future

“As agile methods continue to replace traditional, the role of test manager will cease to exist.

Test managers will cover a different role, with a broader scope, utilising a different skillset.

Teams will need to assume more accountability for test activities than they have done in the past”

Our Hypothesis

Inside the teamor

Outside the team

Defect management?

Inside the team

Outside the team

Test Automation?

Inside the team

Outside the team

Writing good tests

Self-documenting

Isolated

Concise

A spec not a script

About behaviour

Readable

Clear intention

Test Tool Selection?

Inside the team

Outside the team

Principles & Strategy?

Inside the team

Outside the team

Principles of Testing

In order that you ensure qualityAs a team member I want you to be responsible for a

lot more

This isn’tManagement

Test “Managers”, the point is…

Stop ManagingStart enabling!!!

Tom Roden – @tommroden

Ben Williams – @13enWilliams

What Do You Do?