This track will help participants understand how they can fit traditional test practices into an Agile environment as well as explore real-world examples of testing projects and teams in varying degrees of Agile adoption.
“Test early, test often.” If you’ve worked with me, you are probably sick of hearing me say that. But it’s common sense that if your tests find a problem shortly after that problem was created, it will be easier to fix. This is one of the principles that make continuous integration a very powerful strategy. […]
Facebook, Spotify, Netflix: they all claim an agile model that allows them to deploy multiple times a day. Microservice architectures tout the idea that you can deploy any microservice anytime. This causes challenges to your testing efforts. If any microservice can change at any time, how do you know what you are testing… How do […]
Testing in an Agile SDLC requires a balance between the User Perspective, the Developers’ needs for feedback and your Product Owners’ needs for clarity around the quality of the product. Based on the popular STPCon 2018 presentation “Walking the Agile Testing Tight Rope”, this workshop dives into a process for choosing test cases that will […]
Have you ever been in a situation where… A stakeholder comes to you/your QA team and says “We have about 2 hours before we push the new version of the app into production. Could you do some high-level acceptance tests and ensure our app is stable before we do it”. You have no idea where […]
Over the last several years, a set of ideas and activities have been dumped into a big bucket called “Agile software development”. Agile development has hit mainstream recognition. Yet there is often uncertainty and turmoil around what “Agile development” means, in theory and in practice, and the confusion affects Agile projects and the people in […]
Sometimes we allow ourselves to drown in work … Mary Thorn hears it all the time: testers complaining at retrospectives to their teams that they do not have enough time to test everything. She often sees testers work overtime the last week of a sprint to ensure the definition of done is accomplished. Why do […]
It’s fairly hard to know what solid testing is all about within agile teams. What traditional practices are fine to continue, which ones need modification, and what totally new approaches are necessary. Moving from traditional to agile testing is often a high-wire balancing act to some degree with no clear direction. In this workshop, experienced […]
Let’s face it—agile testing is different. Challenges exist in successfully integrating within the teams themselves. Scrummerfall continues to run rampant. The dichotomy of testing vs. quality—and balancing both the team’s and your focus—still exists. Delivering value is both an imperative and a challenge. In this dynamic workshop, join agile coach Robert Sabourin to explore the […]