Adaptive Testing Beccy Stafford & Preet Sandhu 

Perfect Testing? 

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

The Adaptive Tester 

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

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

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

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

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

Team Acceptance “We love testing!!” 

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

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Testing Journey at JUST EAT 

Testing Journey at JUST EAT 

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