Testers in Agile Teams—Isolation or Collaboration?

K2 Keynote 10/26/2016 16:15

Testers in Agile Teams—Isolation or Collaboration?

Presented by:

Rob Sabourin

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Rob Sabourin amibug.com Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than thirty-three years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A highly-respected member of the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization. Rob authored I am a Bug!, the popular software testing children's book; works as an adjunct professor of software engineering at McGill University; and serves as the principle consultant (and president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc. Contact Rob at [email protected].

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Testers in Agile TeamsgIsolation or Collaboration?

Robert Sabourin

President

AmiBug.Com, Inc.September 23, 2016 © Robert Sabourin, 2016 Slide 1

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Testers in Agile Teams—Isolation or Collaboration?

Testers in Agile Teams

What exactly are testers doing as organizations evolve from waterfall lifecycles to iterative, incremental agile approaches? Agile transitions, rather than fostering collaboration, often lead to isolation, role confusion, and fear. Many testers are left out in the cold. Agile testers face existential challenges: Is it enough that programmers test their own code? Must testers become programming experts? Do we still need business analysts or subject matter experts? Test evangelist Rob Sabourin explores an exciting vision for testers and demonstrates how they can take a role in acting as guiding lights to the entire team. Rob shares real-life examples of

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testers becoming trusted advisors and confidants to product owners, acting as customer advocates and guardians of the user experience. He explains how testers can drive critical design decisions early, using risk models to expose emergent architectures. Testing skills, knowledge, and wisdom apply in a plethora of circumstances so testers can take the driver’s seat—in every step of the agile transition.

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• One of these things …– Is not like the other …

– Doesn’t belong …

– Can you tell me which …

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– Before I finish this song …

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• Three of these things …– Belong together …

– Kind of the same …

– Can you tell me which …

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– Before I finish this song …

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ardent advocate

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Testers in Agile Teams—Isolation or Collaboration?