This presentation covers the following topics: What is Agile? What is Testing? Why is Agile trendy today? What is the role of testers in Agile? What’s next? What can you learn and which books you can read.

1. Agile Testing
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2. Agile Testing
Adi Bolboacă
@adibolb
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3. Agile Testing
Question: What is Agile?
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4. What is Agile?
http://agilemanifesto.org
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5. What is Agile?
Fast feedback
● Collaboration
● Building the right product
● Continuous improvement
● Minimize unneeded work
● Adapt the product fast for the customer
● Working software is the measure of progress
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6. What is Agile?
“Agile is a learning Machine”
Chris Matts
- Godfather of BDD -
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7. What is Agile?
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8. The Agile Hype
The market changes faster and faster
● We need to change the products more often
● Agile enables:
● Less bugs => more natural process
● Closer collaboration
● Business owners <=> Technical team
● Customers <=> Technical team
● We can deliver batches of functionality and get
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fast feedback => Incremental and iterative design
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9. Agile Testing?
Question: What is Agile
Testing?
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10. Agile Testing
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Cross-functional teams
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Testers ensure delivering business value
Sustainable pace
● Testing is integrated into development
● Testers become domain experts
● Incremental and iterative test plans
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11. Agile Testing
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12. Role of Agile Testers 1/2
Understand the product very well
● Create acceptance criteria together with business
● Explain acceptance criteria together with business
people during planning
● Automate testing
● Exploratory testing
● Process improvement
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13. Role of Agile Testers 2/2
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Pair with programmers for writing code
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Pair with product people/customers for creating
the requirements
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Pair with operations for deployment and
continuous integration
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Communities of practice. Actively attend:
● In-company communities of practice.
● External communities of practice
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14. Acceptance TDD
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15. Agile Testing Quadrants
Brian Marick
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16. Agile Testing Quadrants
http://www.exampler.com/old-blog/2003/08/21/#agile-testing-project-1
http://www.exampler.com/old-blog/2003/08/22/#agile-testing-project-2
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17. Agile Testing Quadrants
Lisa Crispin
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18. Agile Testing Quadrants
http://lisacrispin.com/2011/11/08/using-the-agile-testing-quadrants/
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19. What's next?
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20. What's next?
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21. What's next?
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22. What's next?
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23. Agile Testing
Extend your mentoring & training
capacity
Accelerate learning through
communities of practice
Grow your functional leaders and top
talents
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adrian.bolboaca@mozaicworks.co
m
@adibolb

24. Agile Testing
Q&A,
Beer
& More...
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25. Picture attribution
http://ciosp3.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ATSC_AgileDevMethodology_V3.png
http://interviewpenguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/delivery_agile.gif
http://janetgregory.blogspot.ro/2010/08/atdd-vs-bdd-vs-specification-by-example.html
http://rfcebooks.blogspot.ro/2011/05/ebook-download-agile-testing-practical.html
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6443938-bridging-the-communication-gap
http://www.whitcoulls.co.nz/book/atdd-by-example-a-practical-guide-to-acceptance-test-driven-development/37198501/
http://www.ebook3000.com/Specification-by-Example--How-Successful-Teams-Deliver-the-Right-Software_196094.html
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