In this webinar Carsten will explore the role of the tester in a Scrum team. He will examine where the tester play an important role in Scrum and how you can contribute to a teams performance.
3. Agenda
• The tester role
• Mindset
• The actual testing
• Stress inducers
• A bit about dashboards
• When document-driven testing is demanded
• Questions
7. The Mindset of Agile
• Feature-specific mindset
• Looking at features only – adding more is better
• Sprints are frustrating as they stop you half-way through a feature
• Relies heavily on estimates and knowing exactly when to stop
• Essentially waterfall/silo thinking
• Agile mindset
• Looking at the whole product – adds only what is valuable and safe
• Sprints provides rhythm, calmness and cleanliness
• Reacts to feedback
8. The actual testing
• A lot of it is the usual technical investigation of the product with the
purpose of evaluating it towards a number of quality characteristics
and project goals.
• The constraints are:
• The product and features evolves organically, not pre-planned and spec’ed
• Risks emerge along the way
• Testing needs to be prioritized
• Testing happens continuously
• Everyone participates in testing
13. 2. Tackling problems
• All teams wrestle with problems – that’s what we do
• Sprint reviews are for tech problems
• Retrospectives are for what keeps us from solving tech problems
• Build the team – learn everything you can about each other
• Voice your observations as passionless as you can
• Take lead in team events: daily scrum - retrospectives
20. Document-driven testing in SCRUM?
• Organisation is not agile + business as usual = documents
• Problems:
• Huge test plans never actually really helped us in any case
• We haven’t got time for large docs
• Not much to work from – product is emerging and changing
• So – what do we do?
21. Test plan(ning)
• Plan per sprint only
• Mindmaps of what we can foresee we need to cover (and why)
• Models of different coverages (different quality characteristics)
• Share with team – get input – get modification