Title
Roadmap to Agile Testing
Topic summary
So you want to increase your testing agility, but arent sure how to get there from here? Are you somewhere en route to agility and want to correlate experiences with your peers? Perhaps you've done extensive exploration in the jungles of Agile testing, but aren't quite ready to open up guided tours? Creating a roadmap to Agile testing adoption can help us organize and distill our experiences and make our journey more enjoyable. This workshop will develop a clearer understanding of whats involved in making the transition to Agile testing.
Duration
90 minutes
Audience
- Anyone who wants to shift their traditional testing to agile testing.
- Anyone who wants to improve the agility of their current agile testing.
- Anyone introducing testing to an organization who wants to get it started in an agile way.
- Anyone with success or failure stories about introducing agile testing.
- Anyone looking for or finding better ways to introduce agile testing.
Goals
- Learn how to work with peers, managers, and staff to increase your agility in testing.
- Understand some of the roadblocks to adopting agile testing.
- Gain insight from successful techniques that others have applied.
- Be able to apply findings on your own project.
Process
This is a peer-to-peer.
1. Introduction (20 minutes)
- Facilitators describe session.
- Participants introduce themselves and provide their name and email address for the roster.
- Participants brainstorm their questions/comments onto sticky notes, post them on the wall.
- The plenary group reviews the wall and chooses the top five topics.
2. Interactively develop case studies (45 minutes)
- Divide into pairs. Each person in the pair takes five minutes to tell the other person a story about his or her project. Between the two of them, they select which story is of most interest, that they want to carry forward. They consider how it relates to the top five topics.
- Combine pairs to form groups of four. Each person who has a story being carried forward has five minutes to present the story to the group of four. Between the group, they select which story is of the most interest. They prepare the story for presentation to the plenary group.
- Each story presenter presents his or her story to the group, explaining how it relates to the top five topics. Question and answer time.
3. Develop roadmap to Agile testing poster (20 minutes)
- On a large sheet of butcher paper, participants illustrate the stories that have been presented in the form of a roadmap, complete with landmarks, warning signs, hazards, milestones, directions, distances, or whatever the group creatively wishes to express.
4. Wrap up (5 minutes)
- Each participant tells one idea or comment they heard in the workshop that particularly struck them.
Deliverables
Adopting agile testing poster Roadmap to Agile testing.
Session Leader Resumes
Kay Johansen has spent the past five years in pursuit of Agile testing. She has helped multiple organizations build Agile software teams, including recruiting, coaching, developing Agile processes and overcoming resistance. She has published two papers on introducing Agility and is currently a Lead Test Engineer for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Jeremy Brown has spent the last couple years working within and leading Agile Teams. He enjoys test automation and test development tools but loves to find a good bug. He is currently working at Novell within the System Test Department and constantly is looking to enhance Agile Testing in the mainstream.
Jeremy and Kay led the workshop on Teaching Agile Testing at the Agile Development Conference 2004.
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