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Changing role of a tester in an agile world

GSJGD. Changing role of a tester in an agile world. Anutthara Bharadwaj Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation . Agenda. What is Agile software development? What is Agile testing? Adapting to Agile testing People Process Tools Real world Agile testing .

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Changing role of a tester in an agile world

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  1. GSJGD Changing role of a tester in an agile world Anutthara Bharadwaj Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

  2. Agenda • What is Agile software development? • What is Agile testing? • Adapting to Agile testing • People • Process • Tools • Real world Agile testing

  3. What is Agile development?

  4. Why Agile? • Product lifecycles are getting shorter • Requirements are changing faster • Proven results in multiple sectors • Teams love it!

  5. Agile is Growing Mainstream

  6. Agile Demands Changes People Process Tools Focus on customer value

  7. Agile Testing – 3 pillars • Agile mindset for People • Agile Practices in Process • Agile lifecycle Tools

  8. Agile Mindset for People • Collaboration • Trust & Transparency • Flexibility in roles and responsibilities • Responding to change

  9. Agile Testing Process

  10. Agile Practices for testers • Stand up meetings • User story reviews • ATDD/BDD • Team design reviews • Pair testing • Exploratory testing

  11. AgileTools • Agile testing needs tools that support • Team collaboration • Reduction of waste • Transparency & visibility • A holistic approach to Application Lifecycle Management

  12. Real world Agile testing • Visual Studio ALM Test • Enterprise product • 100 engineer team • 2 year product cycle

  13. Agile Mindset • Collaboration a necessity – feature crews • SDETs had mixed reactions • Responding to change

  14. Agile Practices • SCRUM standup meetings • Exploratory testing • Pair testing • Shared test automation • Continuous integration

  15. Exploratory testing Dogfood IDC NAR

  16. Shared test automation Dogfood IDC NAR

  17. Continuous integration Dogfood IDC NAR

  18. Agile Tools • Dogfooded our own tools • Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional • Visual Studio 2010 Lab Manager

  19. Actionable bugs • Repro steps • Actions on bug • Video recording • Intellitrace ™ • Screenshots • Comments • Debug logs • Event logs • System information • Snapshot

  20. Virtualization of Test Environments Dogfood IDC NAR

  21. Automatic Test Impact Analysis Dogfood IDC NAR

  22. Transparent project management

  23. Conclusion • Agile Mindset for People • Collaboration, transparency, flexibility • Respond to change quickly • Agile Processes • Quality shared responsibility from day one • Pick practices that suit your team – exploratory testing, pair testing, CI etc. • Agile Tools • Pick tools that are friction free • Use tools that break siloes between dev and test

  24. Thank you! http://twitter.com/anuttharahttp://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara

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