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Beccy Stafford
May 05, 2016
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Transforming Test
Talk given at Testing Showcase Midlands 2016
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Transcript
TRANSFORMING TEST Beccy Stafford - Head of Test @mandsdigital
TRANSFORMING TEST Beccy Stafford - Head of Test @mandsdigital
TESTING INNOVATION 2001 2005 2009 2016 1957 TDD EXPLORATORY TESTING
BDD TESTING PYRAMID
PROBLEM 1 | THE BDD BUG
PROBLEM 2 | THE SELENIUM MILLENNIUM
WHAT’S WRONG WITH UI TESTS? • Slow • Prone to
failure • Bad code • False negatives • A bug?
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results” - Einstein?
If your test fails and there’s no bug - is
it a useful test?
PROBLEM 3 | THE TESTING SPRINT DEV SPRINT 5 DEV
TEAM TEST TEAM TEST SPRINT 5 DEV SPRINT 6 BUILD
PROBLEM 4 | TESTING THEATRE
CHANGE IS HARD
CHANGING TEST IS REALLY HARD Engineers Project Manager Product Owner
Stakeholders Architects Designers
HOW CAN WE INFLUENCE CHANGE?
PEOPLE AREN’T IDIOTS
SHARE THE PAIN
EXPERIMENT!
QUESTIONS?
REFERENCES