Presentation delivered by Amarender Yogender at the June 09 Knowledge sharing session hosted at Oracle India

1. The Agile (Scrum) Process [email_address]

2. Activities in Agile testing Changing role of tester Key success factors Q&A Agile development process

3. Activities in Agile testing Changing role of tester Key success factors Q&A Agile development process

6. The Agile Manifesto Source: www.agilemanifesto.org Process and tools Individuals and interactions over Following a plan Responding to change over Comprehensive documentation Working software over Contract negotiation Customer collaboration over

8. Scrum

19. A sample product backlog Estimate

20. A sprint burndown chart

21. Activities in Agile testing Changing role of tester Key success factors Q&A Agile development process

23. Activities in Agile testing Changing role of tester Key success factors Q&A Agile development process

24. Changing role of tester Waterfall Agile Work in homogeneous team of testing pro ’ s Work in cross functional team of biz analysts, developers, testers etc. Role predominantly involves testing Expanded role involves design def/review, write/review code and testing Quality Cop: Last line of defense for Software Quality Quality Partner: Quality responsibility of entire sprint team Test cases prepared from well documented req ’ s and designs Test cases prepared from user stories, req & design discussions, minimal documentation. Clearly defined entry and exit criteria for testing phase Testing is collaborative effort with other functions, no phase gates

25. Changing role of tester Agile Test execution after code complete for project, back loaded Iterative testing by feature and not entire project, evenly spread Waterfall Testing essentially Top Down – Business flows, Integration points and then units Testing essentially Bottom Up – Units, Integration points and then flows Minimal involvement in Unit testing Active participation in unit testing System level Automation test scripts, after code is stabilized Automation from unit testing level, as code is getting built Report progress by testing phase Report progress by Feature complete rather than testing completion

26. Activities in Agile testing Changing role of tester Key success factors Q&A Agile development process

29. Questions ?