Personal conclusion about What I am thinking agile and test CURRENTLY

1. Agile test? Test agilely?
-Personal conclusion about test and agile
Xuebin MA 2012.10.4

2. Outline
Test
Be agile
Agile Test?

3. Outline
Test
Be agile
Agile Test?

4. V model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Model_(software_development)

5. Tests during dev process
Design phase
Review or other static test methods
Coding phase
Unit test
Test phase
Integration test, functional test, system test, QA,
user acceptance test...
Regression test, smoke test, stress test,
performance test...

6. Disciplines (?)
Test to keep quality from the beginning
The earlier phase you test, the easier to find bug
The earlier you find the bug, the lower cost to fix
More tests, less bugs (not linearly!)

7. Strategy
As resources are always limited, test strategy should
be built by fixing or trying to fixing the followings:
test objective, test approach, total test time, test
priorities, test schedule, test closure

8. Approach or Method
White box
Control flow test, data flow test
Code coverage (c0, c1, c2)
Black box test
boundary value analysis, all pair testing, state
transition graph or tables, decision table tests,
specification tests...

9. Outline
Test
Be agile
Agile Test?

10. Agile Software Development
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

11. Not a sliver bullet!!!
No common solution
Different projects need different agile solution
Process is needed
Rome was not build in one day
Retrospective is needed
Improve by find and fix problem agilely

12. Agile in my opinion
We have many weapons
XP, scrum, daily stand meeting, Kanban, velocity
tracking, retrospective meeting...
TDD, automation, continuous delivery, emergent
design, lean software development...
Find problems and solve them with above weapons
agilely in every iteration

13. Agile VS other methods
Not enemy relationships!!!
‘Standing on the shoulders of giants’
Always be improving agilely, comparing
to other methods and agile method
itself

14. Outline
Test
Be agile
Agile test

15. Agile test
Following V model in one agile iteration
seems very difficult
But no step can be jumped and these
tests must be done
Problems become how to adopt these
tests in one or several iterations

16. Solution
No common or best solution!!!
Only have better solutions

17. Solutions
TDD would be a good choice
Flexible and agile test strategy
Info share in team (dev and test)
Emergent design
XP, especially at design phase
Adjust test priorities for every iteration (scrum)
Test automation, continuous delivery ...

18. In another word
Agile test is test agilely ^_^

19. Always improve
Always advance