Talk: The Good Testing, The Bad Testing and The Ugly Testing
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Stephen Janaway
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The Good Testing, The Bad Testing and The Ugly Testing
Short synopsis:
It’s all too easy to think that you understand what testing is all about. Checking that the software works, right? Simple. Well that’s not the true story. What good testing looks like is one of the most misunderstood areas of software development. Sadly not only do those outside of the testing industry often misunderstand what good looks like, so do those within testing as well. As tools vendors and service companies push their own agenda’s and universities push out more and more graduates with little formal education in testing then it’s no surprise that the sorts of testing typically talked about at agile conferences is not the sort of testing that fits with the autonomous, cross functional teams that we seek to build. If you’ve seen testers as the blockers to the team’s delivery or the quality police then you’ll no doubt understand why change is needed. Fortunately there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is another way. And in this presentation we intend to tell the audience what that is. We will talk about how testing has come to be where it is today, what bad and ugly testing looks like and more importantly what good testing is. We’ll give the audience the information to take back to their teams to really be able to help their testers excel at their craft and ensure that they are a key part of every agile team. And team’s with empowered, effective testers as a part are teams that can really deliver.
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Key Points ------------ * Why testing is not just playing with the software to see if it works. * What bad testing is and why we see so much bad testing in our industry today. * Why certification, sign-off and control is not the answer. * How we’ve come to the ‘automate everything’ myth and why automation alone will not solve a team’s quality problems. * How many testers lack the skills to effectively explain what good testing looks like and how scrum masters, developers, agile coaches, etc can help. * What good testing looks like and what skills and experience you should be looking for from the testers in your team. * How the testers in your team can work as an integral part of that team and focus on discovering critical information throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Key Points To Take Away ---------------------------- * An understanding of how testers can play a key part in a team and why having testers is critical to enable a team to own quality. * A view on what good, bad and ugly testing looks like. * How good testing fits in with agile and devops. * Information on how testing is changing for the better and what they can do in order to help.
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