At the 2019 Global Scrum Gathering in Austin, TX, I presented on Agile Testing. Below is the abstract of the talk, along with links to the Agile Testing blog series and the presentation slides. 2019 Austin Global Scrum Gathering Abstract: Many teams struggle with fitting in testing activities inside of a Sprint. They end up doing…
Here are the top 8 things to consider when developing your Agile testing strategy to enable you to continuously deliver a quality working Product Increment at the end of every Sprint 1. Testing in not a phase Testing is not a phase that happens at the end of a project and it’s not a phase that…
Ensure that Exploratory testing is part of your testing suite. Most manual testing should be spent on Usability and Exploratory Testing. These types of tests are non-scripted and thus cannot be automated. These tests need human interaction, observation, analysis, and intuition. With usability testing, a human needs to verify that the design, layout, and user interface…
When you are coming up with a testing strategy for green field applications, you should follow the testing triangle or pyramid. For legacy application, a different strategy is needed. Writing tons and tons of unit tests when working with a very large application with zero tests is very costly and results in very little benefits. A…
Acceptance test driven development takes the TDD practice and applies it to acceptance tests. On day 1 of the Sprint, before we begin coding a particular user story, we start by reviewing the acceptance criteria and thinking about how we will verify via tests that this story is complete. Typically, a single acceptance criteria might map…
Requirements and tests are just two sides of the same coin. You can’t have a user story or requirement without an acceptance criteria (test). These two meld into executable specification. Gherkin Using gherkin syntax (given, when, then) we can represent requirements using examples and create specifications by example. As a potential customer, I want to collect…
In many situations, there are a lot of business rules that need to be tested. Say we want to test that the correct discounts get applied based on a certain number of items in a shopping cart. To test these rules, most testers will go through the UI and hop through several steps to get to…
Test driven development is a programming approach where before the developer writes any code, she first writes an automated test. This test will fail at first because no code exists. Then she writes enough code to make the test pass. After that she might want to clean up or refactor her approach, all along ensuring that…