Quality Does not Belong with the Tester! Maaret Pyhäjärvi | Twitter: maaretp Maaret Pyhäjärvi Nimeä | Attribution (Finland)
HIGH EXPECTATIONS
DIFFERENT
FROM BETTER TO WORSE
Adding a Tester Can Make Things Worse Perception change: from everyone’s work to one person’s specialty – Same work twice: the developer and the tester? – Slap in the developer’s face with different results Feedback did not work well with lack of design & programming skills – Fear and Consequences of not getting good enough The fixing backlog – More developer work
Quality and the Developer From slap in the face to shared insight of first experience through pairing Learning to think of connected concepts, not just connected code both before and after implementation Relying on ‘own testing’ and skipping tester- testing as experiment Making testing a programming problem: automation
Summary I’m not responsible for production quality, developers are – I try to help but my efforts are easy to attenuate with what the developers do Working with the culture of collaboration makes a huge difference – Experiments with a reluctant team – Avoiding clear roles keeps everyone alert – Nobody is “just” something these days