The slides for my webinar on TI4Agile, a test improvement model for the Agile context.

1. Test Improvement for Agile
Jeroen Mengerink, Test Consultant, Polteq
Email: jeroen.mengerink@polteq.com
Twitter: @AngusVB
Blog: http://jmengerink.wordpress.com
Website: http://www.polteq.com
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2. Test Improvement for Agile
Jeroen Mengerink, Test Consultant, Polteq
Jeroen is a test consultant for Polteq. Next to his work for clients, he is involved in
various test innovations. His main area of expertise is Agile. Jeroen teaches
several test courses e.g. about Agile (CAT), SOA and Cloud. He is co-author of the
book and approach Cloutest(r) on how to test when cloud computing is involved.
He has contributed as a speaker to various events for Polteq and her clients. In
international assignments he has presented the results of TPI assessments to
senior management. He presented several times at events like EuroSTAR,
ChinaTest and TestNet on a large variety of subjects.
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3. Agenda
• Agile
• Scrum
• Test improvement roadmap
• Assessment model
• Key areas
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What is Agile?
agile /’æd3aIl; NAmE ’æd3l/ adj.
1.able to move quickly and easily SYN nimble: a strong and agile
athlete
2.able to think quickly and in an intelligent way: an agile mind / brain
(source: Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary)

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Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
(source: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/)

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Agenda
• Agile
• Scrum
• Test improvement roadmap
• Assessment model
• Key areas

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Scrum
Goals:
• Raise the effectiveness of the team
• Guard the progress of the team
• Solve impediments
• Guard the project progress
• Minimizing of project risks
Scrum is an iterative and incremental method for managing software
projects and product or application development

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Scrum

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Agile/Scrum
Agile
• Set of basic ideas
• Little overhead
• Focused on people
Scrum
• Process management
• Short iterations
• Multidisciplinairy teams

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Agenda
• Agile
• Scrum
• Test improvement roadmap
• Assessment model
• Key areas

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PerformingNormingForming .
Evolution of Agile testing
Pioneering
Structured
Agile
Time
StructuredNotstructured

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TI4Agile roadmap
Quick wins,
good practices
Goals, scope
Interviews,
meetings
Assessment
Awareness,
commitment, buy-
in
Implement and evaluate

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Assessment
“If you don’t know where you are,
a map won’t help.”
(Watts Humphrey)

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Good practices
• Good practices describe “Practices that have proven to be of value in
different settings”
• From testing perspective
• From Agile perspective
• For each key area
• Provide related information
• Based on practice and current setting

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Agenda
• Agile
• Scrum
• Test improvement roadmap
• Assessment model
• Key areas

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Assessment model

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Example assessment result

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TI4Agile maturity levels

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Assessment model
• There is no initial level like in other models
• Each key area has a number of checkpoints
• Checkpoints are continuous
• Next maturity level builds on previous level

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Agenda
• Agile
• Scrum
• Test improvement roadmap
• Assessment model
• Key areas
• Teamwork
• Test management
• Defect management

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Teamwork
• Respect and trust each other
• Commitment as a team
• Work towards a team goal
• Help each other where possible
• Multi disciplined

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Teamwork

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Teamwork - Multi disciplinary
• Everyone has his own specialization
• Think from the perspective of other roles
• Assist each other where possible
• Communicate your expectations
Tester
Developer
Designer
Customer

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Teamwork - Team development

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Teamwork - Keep the goal visible

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Test management
• People management
• Generic test approach / strategy
• Risk analysis
• Release planning
• Keep the big picture (birds eye view)
• Cross teams
• Cross sprints
• Cross projects

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Test management

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Test management - Generic test
approach / strategy
• Training and coaching
• Defect management
• Risk analysis
• Non-functionals
• E2E testing
• Tooling and automation
• Environment management
• Metrics and reporting
• …

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Generic test approach / strategy
Risks
Maturity
Skills
Product
Size
Time
Culture
BandwidthBandwidth
Test management - Generic test
approach / strategy

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Defect management
• Decide when to log a defect
• Decide what to log
• Pay attention to traceability
• Use one system for all defects

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Defect management

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Defect management
• Factors that influence whether a defect is recorded and if so, the
amount of information that needs to be recorded:
• Co-location
• Maturity of team
• Number of defects
• Organizational influence
• Drive for metrics
• Size of development
• Complexity of development

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• For test improvement within Agile focus on:
• People
• Development process
• Testing
Conclusion

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