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Adaptive Testing

Beccy Stafford
September 11, 2015

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.

Beccy Stafford

September 11, 2015
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  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
    Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/legalcode
    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
    License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
    Slide 14: “Public Footpath” by Colin https://flic.kr/p/fjbh5x Available under Creative Commons
    License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/legalcode

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