1. The 7 habits of Effective Agile
Testers
SoftTec2010
Vipul Gupta
Sr. Test Architect
www.impetus.com

2. Agenda
 Why Agile?
 What Agile development demands?
 Challenges it poses for testers
 Habits tester should develop
 Introduction to Test3600

3. Who am I?
tester by heart
test architect by choice
current leader of test
engineering R&D
vipul gupta

4. Who all here follow Agile?

5. Who all here TRULY follow Agile?

6. Why Agile?
build gradually
review and demonstrate
incremental

7. Why Agile?
take small steps, have multiple
checkpoints
development and testing
works together
iterative

8. Why Agile?
replan based on learnings
and feedback
adaptive

9. Why Agile?
granular user stories
defined acceptance criteria
predictive

10. What Agile Development Demands?
collaboration
pairing between teams
high

11. organization
onus on deliverables
self
What Agile Development Demands?

12. achieving adequate test coverage in
each iteration
incomplete code delivered with each
iteration
user stories not clearly drafted
developers do most of the testing
challenges
Challenges for Testers

13. Does it mean testers existence is jeopardized?

14. expand user stories
validate completeness of
requirements
perform more specialized
testing
need to
Testers Still Needed

15. be proactive
 open in communication with team and
stakeholders
 own the tasks that are assigned
Habits testers need to develop
habit 1

16. begin with the end in mind
 define the scope correctly
 retrospect
Habits testers need to develop
habit 2

17. put first things first
 strategize before moving forward
 continuous planning
Habits testers need to develop
habit 3

18. think win/win
 pair up with the business and
development team
 stay away from blame game
Habits testers need to develop
habit 4

19. seek first to understand, then
to be understood
 identify the root cause of the problem
 identify multiple solutions
 discuss the solutions within team
 do not make personal attacks on any
team member
Habits testers need to develop
habit 5

20. synergize
 testers and developers collaboration can
help in improving test coverage
 share the tasks within team
 share the learnings with other team
members
Habits testers need to develop
habit 6

21. sharpen the saw
 learn new techniques
 exploit OSS tools
Habits testers need to develop
habit 7

22. integrated toolset and set of
practices based on proven
product testing patterns
Introduction to Test3600
test3600

23. Test3600

24.  be proactive
 begin with the end in mind
 put first things first
 think win/win
 seek first to understand, then to be
understood
 synergize
 sharpen the saw
Summary
7 habits

25. Derived from “The Seven
Habits of Highly Effective
People” written by Stephen R.
Covey
References
references

26. Thank You
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