2. Clem Pickering
clement.pickering@callcreditgroup.com
Clement Pickering
@clem_pickering

3. The problem with
traditional test strategy
documents…
No one reads them
Suggest completeness
Invite sign-offs
Tendancy to boiler plate
Waste?

4. No one reads
them!

5. But Test Strategy itself is
a valuable activity…
How can we get people
to take an interest?
And convey what’s really
important?

6. The ideas behind a Test
Strategy Poster
What if we made it visual?
And concise?
And stuck it on the wall?

8. People pay attention to visual
information
<Insert Infographic examples>

9. Display where
people
congregate
Wall-Skills.Com

10. Suited to Agile…
Aim for Just Enough
What’s Appropriate?
Generates Conversation

11. Iterate and Evolve …
ReviewRefine at Retros
Testers advocate, whole team participate

13. Enough theory, now for the risky
bit…
Audience participation

14. A Testing Scenario
Balifax bank, the tropical bank of Bali are
building a new online banking platform in
response to customer demand for a modern
“fully-featured” banking experience.
A brand new website is planned which will call
a new app tier service written using .NET and
delivered as a SOAP API. This new service will
track customer activity and provide new
website features but will integrate with the
banks existing account processing systems.
A secure intranet admin function will allow
bank helpdesk staff to resetamend customer
details and MI reports will delivered daily to
the banks management
Balifax have assembled a crack project team of
developers, testers and BAs and in an unheard
of fit of trust empowered them to crack on as
they see fit…

15. 5 Mins on …
Principles
Examples:
Testing is everyone’s responsibility
Treat test code as production code

16. 5 Mins on …
Tools and Techniques
(Choose pyramid or
quadrants)

17. 5 Mins on …
Free choice!

18. Feedback 
What’s missing?
What could be improved?

20. Visual Test Strategy
Posters …
Are Concise
Generate Conversation
Are looked at (more likely)
Radiate Information

21. TL;DR version:
Create a single page visual test
strategy for your project and stick it
on the wall