cPrime - Agile Quality Engineering

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


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


Agility is a state

Agile Mindset

PracticesTesting


Agile Testing is

Testing Quality Engineering with an Agile Mindset.


Is Testing == Quality?


• 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


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


Agility is a state

Agile Mindset

PracticesTesting


Agile Mindset

Scrum Values

Agile Values & Principles

Lean Principles


Agile Values


Agile Principles


Game


Scrum Values

Courage Openness Commitment

Focus Respect


Lean Principles


Agile Tester Quality Engineer’s Value Proposition

Facilitate and maintain clear requirement

Drive Quality & Value Driven

Culture

More Testing & Less

Checking

First Class Collaborator


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


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


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"


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


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)


Testing Pyramid


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


Foundation of sustainabilityForming the critical mass


Management’s Agile Mindset & Support

Better ways to collaborate & Innovate


• 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?


PollWhat size is your organization?

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


PollWhich best describes your role?

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


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


Q&A


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