Thoughts, experiences and case studies on how to convert Testing principles into practices. We focus on the practices of making testing effective on distributed teams by keeping things simple, yet effective. http://testing.thoughtworks.com/events/effective-strategies-distributed-testing

1. E f f e c t iv e S t r a t e g ie s f o r D i s t r ib u t e d T e s t i n g
Anand Bagmar & Manish Kumar

2. Agenda
ThoughtWorks Introduction
Presentation
Q&A

3. Custom Software Solution Experts

4. Big Enough to Trust, Small Enough to Care

5. Where We Have the Most Impact

6. Our Approach
Right tools
Right approach
on shore
Right place not sure?
off shore
Right people

7. Why We’re Different
Passion for Cause not
Delivery track
record software a company
excellence
Adaptive Straight
Custom ALM talk
solutions
Actionable Concept
advice Experience to delivery
& expertise

8. Presenters
Anand Bagmar
Lead Consultant (QA), ThoughtWorks
Software testing > 11 years, > 14 years in the Software industry
Anand.Bagmar@thoughtworks.com
Manish Kumar
Testing Practice Lead, ThoughtWorks India
Software testing > 15 years
Manish.Kumar@thoughtworks.com

9. What is this session about?

10. Disclaimer

11. Business objective

12. Testing principles recap …
Building quality in
Involving everyone
Business optimize value
The principles that matter Fast feedback
Clear and consistent
view of Testing Tests are an asset
Faster delivery into production

13. Why distributed teams exist?

14. Reduced communication bandwidth
Cultural issues
Increased noise
Visibility into progress
Trust and rapport
Timely decisions
Challenges of Testing in the distributed development
Teams
Working in the same way
Shared understanding

15. Practices, Tips and Tricks

16. Mindset
Cross pollination, by frequent rotation
Keep an open mind Be positive
KISS principle Trust your team(s)
ONE PRODUCT, ONE TEAM!

17. Communication

18. ATDD - Story Planning Session

19. ATDD - Story Writing

20. ATDD - Automate Acceptance Tests

21. ATDD - Implement Functionality
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22. ATDD - First BA / QA Signoff
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23. ATDD - Story Testing & Showcase
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24. Repeat
Do it again
and again
and again
and again
…
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25. System Testing
Start Development
BA Tester Iteration
Business BA
Write Story and Scenarios
Story Planning Session
Implement Automated
Acceptance Tests
Dev Tester
Start
Here
Development
Development Implement Functionality
Iterations
Engine Dev Dev
Daily BA /QA demo
System Dev Tester BA
Testing Story Testing
BA / QA Signoff on Dev Box
Tester
Business Showcase
Dev Tester BA
Business BA
End Development Iteration
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26. ATDD

27. ATDD – Table scenario driven

28. Test Automation

29. Toolsets
Communication
Overhead
Testing Common & consistent
Information islands
Flexible
Project
CI
Collaboration

30. Testing Tool
DSL Communication
Tagging Overhead
Common & consistent
Video, Screenshots
Information islands
Support for CI
Flexible
Multiple Drivers
Exploratory testing support
Customizations

31. CI
Source Repository
poll
Compile BVT Deploy QA Run FULL Deploy to
Regression staging

32. Project Collaboration Tool
What I need to do in relation to what everyone else is doing

33. Environments
Automation
Performance Lab
Production
Test 1
Test
Development
Test 2
UAT

34. Distributing work
Analysts Developers Testers Infrastructure
Functional teams
Division by role
What is to be tested?
From where can that be tested most effectively?

35. Reporting & Metrics
Shared View of progress

36. Reporting & Metrics
Is the application getting any better

37. Reporting & Metrics

38. Reporting & Metrics

39. IPMs, Showcases, Retrospectives

40. Practices, Tips and Tricks
Mindset Environments Communication
Retrospectives Distributing Work
NFRs Toolset
Defect reporting ATDD
Reporting & Metrics Test Automation

41. Practices that hinder

42. Anand Bagmar
Lead Consultant (QA), ThoughtWorks
Anand.Bagmar@thoughtworks.com
Manish Kumar
Testing Practice Lead, ThoughtWorks India
Manish.Kumar@thoughtworks.com