Agile-Scrum in QA – Case study at TraderTools Amitay Itskovitch TraderTools LLC QA Manager Phone: , ext. 107

2 Presentation Overview TraderTools – Streaming Executable Rates today Scrum Agile Methodology How TraderTools Integrated QA into Scrum Agile

3 Who are we? The Company's STPlatform™ enables the streaming of executable rates from multiple sources, enabling any bank, broker or financial institution to become an electronic liquidity provider. TraderTools™ LLC (TraderTools) is one of the world's leading suppliers of electronic Foreign Exchange (eFX) white-label, software solutions.

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5 Current Methodology – V Model / Water Fall Pros: –Clear process –Clear division for responsibility –sets of requirements are predefined Cons: –Not flexible : Change requests in last minute Bugs in UAT –Full cycles when finding Bugs –Risks at the end of the process – new system –Less time for QA

6 Presentation Overview TraderTools – Streaming Executable Rates today Scrum Agile Methodology How we in TraderTools Integrated QA into Scrum Agile

7 What is Agile? Mini Projects Iterations –Each iteration is an entire software project: including planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentationrequirements analysistesting Dynamic Flexible

8 Scrum-Agile Elements Time box Limited time of 30 days for Specification Reviews, Coding and Testing Date Driven! Sprints Each month there is new sprint, the contents are from the product backlogs (list of requirements)

Drops Each sprint will contain X number of drops (mini pieces of the module / function ) for testing Backlog –Product Backlog – list of required features –Development Backlog - sprint scope, updated every day Scrum-Agile Elements (2)

10 Team members Responding reliably to change instead of conforming to plan The team is making decisions instead of taking instructions More individual responsibility and Self management Collective responsibility Scrum-Agile Elements (3)

11 Scrum-Agile Elements (4) Daily Scrum Meetings 15 minutes –Daily 15 minutes status meeting –Same place and time –Same place and time everyday –No discussions chickens QUIET –Keep chickens QUIET –Three questions: Things I have done since yesterday’s meeting Things I am going to get done today Obstacles that I need someone to remove

12 The full Process Cycle

13 Presentation Overview TraderTools – Streaming Executable Rates today Scrum Agile Methodology How TraderTools Integrated QA into Scrum Agile

14 Facing the Agile Challenges in QA Change tests methodology: Move from V- model to Scrum no chronological order Requirements are not finalized No customer Hard to plan test scenarios

15 Sprints 1-2

16 Lessons Learnt – Sprints 1-2 If you can’t test it don’t deliver it!!! QA wasn’t part of the sprint ! Dev had to take their own time to adjust Ad hock Dev time re-evaluations and extensions Not enough time for QA No time for Dev to fix bugs (only blockers)

17 Sprints 3-4

18 Lessons Learnt – Sprints 3-4 Not enough time for QA –write the docs took too much time –do we need complete docs? QA overload – still single person No time for dev to fix bugs (only blockers) –MUST assign time for bug fixes Timing of sprints and drops QA Backlog

19 Sprint 5

20 Lessons Learnt – Sprint 5 Sprint final delivery (2nd drop) to QA should equal delivery to customer QA write only Test cases Start work with drops Bugs from drop 1 aren't to be fix till drop 2 2nd drop for QA should be finalized (requirements and code)

21 More Conclusions Do we need STP/STD? –No requirements –Takes too much time Better define and clarify Dev 2 QA –Insist on Dev performing unit/integration tests Be part of the team: P.R. QA Lot of automation –Nightly builds

22 Advantages To product - stability To Developers – understand the requirements To QA – better knowledge of the product Flexible /Dynamic Clear state of code Quality: finding issues at the beginning

23 Disadvantages No final view Hard to implement Human perspective No Team Leaders Challenge in managing the product

24 Summary It won’t reduce time of Dev/QA. It will increase the product stability. Discover major issues at early stages. It will increase confidence in the product. It will reduce customers dissatisfaction (no design issues).

THANK YOU! Any questions? Agile-Scrum in QA – Case study at TraderTools Amitay Itskovitch TraderTools LLC QA Manager Phone: , ext. 107