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Transforming Test

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May 05, 2016
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Transforming Test

Talk given at Testing Showcase Midlands 2016

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May 05, 2016
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Transcript

  1. TRANSFORMING TEST Beccy Stafford - Head of Test @mandsdigital

  2. TRANSFORMING TEST Beccy Stafford - Head of Test @mandsdigital

  3. TESTING INNOVATION 2001 2005 2009 2016 1957 TDD EXPLORATORY TESTING

    BDD TESTING PYRAMID

  4. PROBLEM 1 | THE BDD BUG

  5. PROBLEM 2 | THE SELENIUM MILLENNIUM

  6. WHAT’S WRONG WITH UI TESTS? • Slow • Prone to

    failure • Bad code • False negatives • A bug?

  7. “Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and

    expecting different results” - Einstein?

  8. If your test fails and there’s no bug - is

    it a useful test?

  9. PROBLEM 3 | THE TESTING SPRINT DEV SPRINT 5 DEV

    TEAM TEST TEAM TEST SPRINT 5 DEV SPRINT 6 BUILD

  10. PROBLEM 4 | TESTING THEATRE

  11. CHANGE IS HARD

  12. CHANGING TEST IS REALLY HARD Engineers Project Manager Product Owner

    Stakeholders Architects Designers

  13. HOW CAN WE INFLUENCE CHANGE?

  14. PEOPLE AREN’T IDIOTS

  15. SHARE THE PAIN

  16. EXPERIMENT!

  17. QUESTIONS?

  18. REFERENCES