Date: 19 August 2009
Time: 11.00am - 12.00pm
Presenters: Ken Brennock & Fran O'Hara
The role of the tester in an Agile implementation is to bring professional expertise in test and quality to the team. However, many Agile implementations struggle to implement effective approaches that achieve productivity enhancements with the required level of quality. This can be because of issues such as:
- Testers having to work without detailed requirements and in short timescales
- Testers having to work more closely with development teams, needing to improve their technical knowledge so that they can work effectively
- Development teams not understanding the continuous nature of testing in Agile and not realising the amount of testing required from them
- Implementing SCRUM as a effective work management approach but without designing/adopting appropriate development and test practices within the incremental framework
- Implementing hybrid methods combining traditional development and test practices with Agile practices but with a resulting strategy that does not deliver on quality
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Based on the presenters’ real life experiences, this presentation:
- Described the key quality/test considerations in moving to Agile including the role of independent testing, testing without detailed requirements, testing in incremental/iterative environments and Agile practices such as Test Driven Development (TDD) and exploratory testing
- Described how testers need to adapt their current skills to a faster and more efficient environment, ensuring that quality metrics and reports are available on a continuous basis
- Outlined how to maintain testing/quality in an Agile lifecycle and avoid the common pitfalls such as inadequate non-functional testing
- Presented typical scenarios encountered in organizations that have experienced process and strategy issues to determine the key problems and the most appropriate quality solutions.
Presenters Biography:
Fran O'Hara is Practice Manager in Sogeti Ireland. Ken Brennock is Director of Technology and a Principal Consultant of Sogeti Ireland. Both are (co)founders of Insight Test Services, providing test consulting, training and managed test services. They specialise in pragmatic approaches to Agile and process improvement and associated best practices. Both are regular speakers at conferences and are ISEB/ISTQB tutors. Fran is a trained SEI CMM lead assessor and TickIT auditor, a fellow of the Irish Computer Society. Ken managed test teams using Waterfall and Agile methodologies; he is also a MBCS
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