Adaptive Testing

A talk about Adaptive Testing, given at the inaugural Lead Dev conference in London on 11th September 2015. Co-presented by Beccy Stafford and Preet Sandhu.

Transcript

1. Adaptive Testing
   Beccy Stafford & Preet Sandhu
   

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2. Perfect Testing?
   

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3. 1. Who is in the team?
   2. How mature is the process?
   3. What skills do your testers have?
   

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4. The Adaptive Tester
   

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5. 1. Get the team thinking about testing
   2. Decide how to approach testing
   Team in Denial
   “We’ll be fine without testing!”
   

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6. Fearful Team
   “Shhhh! You might break it!”
   1. Move away from scripted testing
   2. Automate where we can
   3. Defect prioritisation
   

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7. Legendary Automation Team
   “We used to have this contractor...”
   Baltasar Vischi ©
   

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8. 1. Low barrier
   2. Flaky tests
   3. Speed
   4. Code quality
   

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9. Desperate Team
   “We can’t hire enough good automation testers”
   

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10. Team Acceptance
    “We love testing!!”
    

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11. Adaptive Testing Skills
    1. Communicate, persuade and negotiate
    2. Lead without authority
    3. Coach, mentor and enable
    4. Technical understanding
    

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13. Testing Journey at JUST EAT
    

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14. Testing Journey at JUST EAT
    

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15. Thanks!
    Questions?
    

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16. References
    Slide 2: “Condado Beach, San Juan, Puerto Rico” by Breezy Baldwin https://flic.kr/p/9neK2F
    Available under Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
    Slide 7: “The Dragon of Hell” by Baltasar Vischi https://flic.kr/p/96eoxg Available under Creative
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    Slide 8: http://watirmelon.com/2012/01/31/introducing-the-software-testing-ice-cream-cone/ Image
    reproduced here with kind permission from: Alister Scott.
    Slide 9: “Sometimes I Cry - I’m Only Human” by MarLeah Cole https://flic.kr/p/m3iGCx Available
    under Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
    Slide 10: “all together” by di bo di https://flic.kr/p/6vE9nD Available under Creative Commons
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    Slide 14: “Public Footpath” by Colin https://flic.kr/p/fjbh5x Available under Creative Commons
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