XMind

Create Customer Value with Agile Testing

1. Speaker: Ben Walters, Microsoft India

2. Tooling for Agile Testing

   1. Problems have been team issues typically with many agile projects

   2. Focussed on isolated tasks

   3. Need to bridge the gap of the whole team

   4. Major concern

      1. How do we test without a specification

         1. Agile is adaptive planning, not predictive planning

   5. Agile Process

      1. Roles merge and people blur boundaries between product, tester and programmer

   6. Defects are much cheaper to fix in requirements stage

   7. Beware of the mini-waterfall process

      1. Testers need to be involved in the whole product lifecycle

   8. Solutions

      1. Visualisation of requirements

      2. Behaviour Driven Development

      3. Exploratory Testing

      4. Acceptance Testing

      5. Single Board / Progress Chart

3. Value

   1. Differentiation

      1. New ways to do business

         1. Do you know what you need?

      2. Faster, more streamlined

      3. Reduced cost

      4. Improved customer service

      5. Risks

         1. Customised Software

            1. Complex / Unique

               1. Hasnt been done before

      6. Change is the only constant

         1. Tech

         2. Find new ways to increase change

         3. Driving Agile Process

4. Agile Testing

   1. 80% of projects will be agile

      1. Gartner Report

      2. By end of 2012

   2. Fundamental Principles

      1. Flow of Value

      2. Reduction of waste

      3. Increase Transparency

      4. This results in:

         1. Decreasing Risk

         2. Improve Quality