Agile Testing Quadrants Discussion

Mary Jiang

Dec, 6

Mary Jiang• Sr. Project Manager

• PMP, CSM, CSD, CSPO and CSP

• 12+ years industry experience

• 6+ Agile experience

• Joined Perficient China GDC in 2008

• Focusing on QA & Testing

• Previously worked for UTstarcom, Siemens and Alipay.com

About me

Is it agile testing?

Is it agile testing?

Is it agile testing?

Several questions regarding Agile Testing

• All agile testing must be automated?

• UAT is most important testing?

• When will we need to start to do testing?

• Do we still need tester in agile projects?

• Will we get enough test coverage in agile projects?

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Q1 Q4

Application Under Test

Business-Facing

Technology-Facing

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Some Clarification

• Examples

• Simulations

• Exploratory Testing

• “ility” testing

• Critique product

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Agile Testing Quadrants

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Functional Tests

Examples

Story Tests

Prototype

Simulations

Exploratory Testing

Scenarios

Usability testing

User Acceptance Testing

Alpha/Beta

Unit Tests

Component Tests

Performance & Load testing

Security Testing

“ility” testing

Application Under Test

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Business supporting test

• Support Team

– Right tools to elicit requirements

– From big picture to details

– Driving development with business – facing testing

• Critique product

– Demonstrate applications to stakeholders to get early feedback

– Use scenarios and workflow to test from end to end

Technical Supporting Test

• Support Team

– Unit tests

– Component Tests

– Continuous build

• Critique product

– Performance/load testing

– Security testing

– “ility” testing

“ Nothing is done until it is tested ”

Famous saying in Agile

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Where do we start?

• Test earlier

• Test driven requirement

• Test driven development

• Keep testing pass

• Big picture

• Pair Testing

• “Show me”

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Checklist

• Do we have clear acceptance criteria?

• Do we show prototypes to users before we start coding?

• Do we have specific test data?

• Do we have an automated build process and get quick feedback?

• Are we capture the right examples? Do we need more? Are we

basing our tests on these examples?

• Do we consider technological requirements early enough in the

development cycle?

• Do our business-facing tests help us to deliver a product that

matches customers’ expectation?

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Automation

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Summary

• A software testing practice that follows the principles of agile

software development

• Involves all members of a cross-functional agile team, with

special expertise contributed by testers

• Testing from the customer perspective as early as possible

• Includes everything beyond unit and component level testing

• Does not just mean testing on agile project

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