Testing Lessons from Hockey (The World's Greatest Sport)

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© Robert Sabourin, 2013 17-Jan-14 Slide 1

Testing Lessons from Hockey

(The World's Greatest Sport)

Robert Sabourin

President & Principal consultant

AmiBug.Com, Inc.

Montreal, Canada

[email protected]

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Testing Lessons from Hockey

• Overview

– Learning, Metaphors

– The Players

– The Coaches

– The Fans

– The Score Board

– The Standings

– The Big Picture

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Welcome to Toronto

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1967 Stanley Cup

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Learning and Metaphors

• Teaching

• Learning

• Retaining

• Applying knowledge

• Share experiences

• Don’t get carried away …

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The Players

• Hockey cards

• Name & Position

• Achievements

– History & highlights

– Statistics & context

• Gum

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Forward Games Played

Goals

Assists

Points

Penalty Minutes

Some History Junior

Professional

International

Averages

Highs and Lows

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Goalie Games Played

Wins

Losses

Ties

Minutes Played

Goals Against

Shut Outs

Goals Against

Average

Save %

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Testing Bugs

Bugs by type

Show stoppers

Bug isolation %

Estimate/Actual

Development Defect Density

Function points

K-LOCs

Dev/Rework

Estimate/Actual

History Agility – Context

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Testing Cards

AMIBUG

WINGS

AMIBUG

WINGS

Collard

AMIBUG

WINGS

AMIBUG

WINGS

Bolton

AMIBUG

WINGS

AMIBUG

WINGS

Copeland

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Paraphernalia

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The Players Hockey Roles Testing Roles

Center Test Analyst

Wing Scripted Tester

Defense Man Test Automation

Goalie Explorer

Captain Subject Matter

Penalty Killer Security tester

Goon Load tester

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The Players Hall of Fame

Meyers

Beizer

Collard

Gelperin

AMIBUG WINGS

AMIBUG WINGS

AMIBUG WINGS

AMIBUG WINGS

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Learning how to play hockey?


Watching others

might help explain

some of the rules

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Years of dedication

and perseverance

by hockey Moms

and hockey Dads

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Hone your craft …

• Practise

• Practise

• And then

• Practise

some more …

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The Play by Play


He Shoots He Scores!

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The Coaches

• Team building – Hiring winners

– Player Development

– Junior Leagues, Training

• Management – Strategy, Tactics, Implementation

– Progress and status

• Feedback – Encouragement

– Redirect

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The Coaches

• Direct the play play

– Line changes

– Defend players

– Argue with refs

– Motivate

– Drill

– Pull the goalie

– Bridge to stakeholders

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The Test Lead

• Team building – Hiring winners

– Tester Development

– Training

• Management – Strategy, Tactics, Implementation

– Progress and status

• Feedback – Breakfast of champions

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The Fans

• Hockey Fans – Watch games

– Buy the tickets

– Eat the food

– Exhibit loyalty

– Provide feedback

– Important stakeholders

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The Hockey Fan

• Feedback – Anxiety

– Excitement

– Stress

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The Hockey Fan

• Feedback – Applaud Progress

– Cheer success

– Boo the other team

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Raving Fans of Testers

• Developers

• Database Admin

• Managers

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Raving Fans of Testers

• Customers

• End Users

• Business Stakeholders

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Keep it clean


Know the rules

Make the rules

Break the rules

Respect stakeholders

Play well with others

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Keep it clean


Checking?

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Keep it clean


Testing?

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Keep it clean


Learning?

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Keep it clean


Controlled environment

Clean surface

Prepared

Ready to play

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The Right Gear


Helmet

Mask

Gloves

Pads

Skates

Stick

Other stuff

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Getting Started


Face off

All ready

Get control

Understand

what you are

up against

Go for it

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Hockey Score Board

• Visible to all – Score

– Period

– Time

– Key incidents

– Penalty time

– Ads

– Out of town scores

– Excitement

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Testing Score Board

• Generally – Time

– Bugs

– Priority, Severity

• Regress – Confidence

– Pass Fail

• Exploratory – Opportunities

– On charter time %

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Urgent

Severe

Urgent

Not Severe

Not Urgent

Severe

Not Urgent

Not Severe

Bug Sweet Spot

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Testing Scoreboard

• Progress in the Project – When in project? Phase

– Bugs counts by severity, priority

– Objectives identified, elaborated

– Exploratory Test charters identified

– Tests run, passed, failed, blocked

– Test Project Statistics

– Testing effort done, effort to go

– Running totals (of all counts)

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Testing Scoreboard

• Feedback – Big, Visible, Obvious

– Focus of attention

– Great place for Ads!

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Testing Scoreboard

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Open P1 & P2 Bugs Bugs Pending validation (Corrigé)

Trend Chart

Open Bugs

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Hockey Standings

• How is the team doing? – Games played

– Games at hand

– Total Wins

– Total Loses

– Relative placement

– Division standing

– League standing

– Attendance

– Profit

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Testing Project Standings

• How is the project doing? – Progress toward goals

– On Time – Quality – Budget

– Comparing all projects

– To go / Done effort

– Estimation accuracy

– Work breakdown

– Effort distributions

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Testing Project Standings

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Hockey Big Picture

• Is the franchise healthy? – Revenues

– Expenses

– Profit

– Loss

– Contracts

– Media

– Civic responsibility

– Capital

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Hockey Big Picture

• How is the franchise doing? – Value

– External factors

– Supply

– Demand

– Opportunity

– Image

– Brand

– Revenue

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Testing Big Picture

• Is the company healthy? – Revenues

– Expenses

– Profit

– Loss

– Contracts

– Media

– Civic responsibility

– Capital

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The Big Picture

• How is testing adding value to the organization?

– More sales revenue

– Fewer support calls

– Lower development cost

– Competitive time to market

– Best of breed technology

– Accountable and auditable!

– Attracts top talent, Fun team

– All know how testing ties to corporate values

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Thank You

Questions?

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