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Test Strategy
The problem with traditional test strategy documents…
No one reads them
Suggest completeness
Invite sign-offs
Tendancy to boiler plate
Waste?
No one reads them!
But Test Strategy itself is a valuable activity…
How can we get people to take an interest?
And convey what’s really important?
The ideas behind a Test Strategy Poster
What if we made it visual?
And concise?
And stuck it on the wall?
People pay attention to visual information
<Insert Infographic examples>
Display where people congregate
Wall-Skills.Com
Suited to Agile…
Aim for Just Enough
What’s Appropriate?
Generates Conversation
Iterate and Evolve …
Review\Refine at Retros
Testers advocate, whole team participate
Enough theory, now for the risky bit…
Audience participation
A Testing ScenarioBalifax bank, the tropical bank of Bali are building a new online banking platform in response to customer demand for a modern “fully-featured” banking experience.
A brand new website is planned which will call a new app tier service written using .NET and delivered as a SOAP API. This new service will track customer activity and provide new website features but will integrate with the banks existing account processing systems.
A secure intranet admin function will allow bank helpdesk staff to reset\amend customer details and MI reports will delivered daily to the banks management
Balifax have assembled a crack project team of developers, testers and BAs and in an unheard of fit of trust empowered them to crack on as they see fit…
5 Mins on …
Principles
Examples: Testing is everyone’s responsibility
Treat test code as production code
5 Mins on …
Tools and Techniques
(Choose pyramid or quadrants)
5 Mins on …
Free choice!
Feedback
What’s missing?What could be improved?
Visual Test Strategy Posters …
Are Concise
Generate Conversation
Are looked at (more likely)
Radiate Information
TL;DR version:
Create a single page visual test strategy for your project and stick it
on the wall
