transparency in qa work for management
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Software quality assurance daysXX International Conference of Software Quality Assurancesqadays.com
November 24-26, 2016. Minsk, Belarus
Yuriy MalyiCOMODO. Odesa, Ukraine
Transparency in QA work for management
Transparency in QA work for management
Who Am I?Name: Yuriy MalyiCompany: COMODOPosition: QA managerExperience in IT: 11 years
Transparency in QA work for management
Who are You?
• How many test engineers are here?• How many managers/team leaders?• How many developers?• How many HR? • Any other experts?
Transparency -physical property
of allowing the transmission of light through
a material(с) Wiki
What is Transparency?
Transparency in QA work for management
Transparency -physical property
of allowing the transmission of light through
a material(с) Wiki
What is Transparency?
Transparency in QA work for management
Transparency is operating in such a way that it is
easy for others to see what actions are performed.
(с) Wiki
What does it mean in management?
Transparency in QA work for management
Transparency is operating in such a way that it is
easy for others to see what actions are performed.
(с) Wiki
What does it mean in management?
Transparency in QA work for management
Transparency in QA work for management
Why do we need it, what’s the problem?
Transparency in QA work for management
Black Box – NO control
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Transparency – effective control!
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Problem in projects and teams
Transparency in QA work for management
Problem in projects and teams
Transparency in QA work for management
Problem in projects and teams
Transparency in QA work for management
Problem in projects and teams
Transparency in QA work for management
Problem in projects and teams
Transparency in QA work for management
Problem in projects and teams
Transparency in QA work for management
Prehistory• What are you doing right now?• Why testing takes so much time?• There is nothing to do so long!• I can complete this task 10 times faster!• Why You missed those BUGs during testing?• What are your automation team is doing?• Convince me!• Bullshit!• Etс…
Transparency in QA work for management
Preconditions
• Projects and teams ( )• Tasks and BUGs tracker (~Jira)• Work time logging system (~Jira Tempo)• Wiki (~Confluence)• Calendar (~Confluence calendars)• Test Management System (~ TestRail)• Willing to see the real situation in QA
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QA Team current state
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QA Team current state
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Capacity and details in tempo
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Capacity and details in tempo
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Feature Readiness Page
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Feature Risks Statuses • Feature can’t be delivered in time• Developments and Testing at risk• Feature may be delivered in time • Dev and Testing at the low risk• Feature may be delivered in time• Dev done, Testing at the low risk• Feature will be delivered in time• Dev done, Testing done
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Feature Readiness - Risk Matrix
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BUG status for releases
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Live link to Jira
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BUG status for releases
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Bugs daily progress(goal is “0” BUG rate)
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Change Management Board
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Detailed current status of Automation
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Detailed plan to achieve a goal
Test cases for automation 1144Current automation percent 27%Goal for automation percent 80%Number of cases to achhive the goal 916Already automated 311Need to be automated 605Team performance (test cases/week) 15Number of weeks to achhive a goal 40.33
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Detailed reporting every week
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Real reflection of automated test cases
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Minimize time for reports
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Time cost
• QA Team current state ~10 min per day for TL• WorkLog in Jira ~5 min per day for engineer• Feature Readiness Page ~2 hours create by TL• Feature Readiness Page ~5 min day to support• BUG status for releases ~1-3 min create by TL• Bugs daily progress ~1-3 min create by TL• Change Management ~10 min for PM on request• Detailed status and plan of Automation ~1-3 days• Automation report ~10 min per week for TL
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Success Story• Half a year of transparency…• New urgent release required…• Request to complete in NOW!• And…• Just 2 emails in replay• Details of all previous efforts• And we protected estimates!• …• Profit!
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The last weapon
Transparency in QA work for management
If you're going through hell…
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