1. Webinar Becoming More Agile? Here Is How Testing Needs To Change
Diego Lo Giudice, Vice President, Principal Analyst
May 2, Call in at 10:55 a.m. Eastern time

2. Modern applications need Agile development approaches . . .
. . . and testing needs to change.

3. Agenda
Agile disrupts testing as we know it.
TCoE: a concept of the past?
New Agile and existing testing practices remix
The five “must-haves” for Agile testing tools!

4. Agenda
Agile disrupts testing as we know it.
TCoE: a concept of the past?
New Agile and existing testing practices remix
The five “must-haves” for Agile testing tools!

5. Doing “Right Things” vs “Things Right”
Why Agile? We still have a huge quality issue . . .
Doing “Right Things” vs “Things Right”
Source: Forrester adaptation from presentation, Intellect - Information Technology Telecommunications and Electronics Association, March, 2012

6. Quality is the number one claimed benefit of Agile
“What are the perceived benefits in your organization of using Agile?” (Select up to three)
Quality
Responsiveness to
change
Speed
Base: 205 IT professionals from organizations that are implementing or have implemented Agile (multiple responses accepted); Source: April 30, 2012, “Survey Results: How Agile Is Your Organization?” Forrester report

7. Traditional testing conflicts with the values of the Agile manifesto
Source: January 15, 2013, “Consistent Performance In Agile Teams Must Include Testing” Forrester report

8. Agenda
Agile disrupts testing as we know it.
TCoE: a concept of the past?
New Agile and existing testing practices remix
The five “must-haves” for Agile testing tools!

9. Agile teams break the testing center of excellence model!

10. The TCoE model centralizes all testing activities . . .
Automation scripters
Manual testers
Performance/ integration lab
Test management: process, people, tools

11. With Agile, testers sit side-by-side with developers, and most testing activities move to the project teams
DevTest
teams
Exploratory + automation testers,
BA, developers
Exploratory + automation testers,
BA, developers
Exploratory + automation testers,
BA, developers
Exploratory + automation testers,
BA, developers
Exploratory + automation testers,
BA, developers
Exploratory + automation testers,
BA, developers

12. The TCoE transforms to testing community of practices
Performance/ integration lab
Testing practices:
TDD, BDD, UATD,
SBT, exploratory testing . . .
Automation architects/ designers
Testing SMEs

13. In three to five years . . .
TCoE: testing center of excellence
TPCoE: testing practice center of excellence
Or: community of practice
Source: January 15, 2013, “Consistent Performance In Agile Teams Must Include Testing” Forrester report

14. Agenda
Agile disrupts testing as we know it.
TCoE: a concept of the past?
New Agile and existing testing practices remix
The five “must-haves” for Agile testing tools!

15. Developers get involved in testing with greater frequency!
“How often do you use the following tools when you develop software/applications?”
Tech-testing tools
Base: 2,038 North American, European, and Asian software developers; Source: Forrsights Developer Survey, Q1 2013

16. Unit testing is the most common testing practice
“Which of the following testing and release management practices does your development team currently use?” (Select all that apply)
Unit testing
58%
Exploratory testing
20%
Performance/load testing
38%
Automation/regression testing
30%
Continuous integration with multiple weekly builds
32%
Base: 698 North American, European, and Asian professional software, internal IT, game developers, and consultants; Source: Forrsights Developer Survey, Q1 2013

17. Agile brings new practices and extends the existing.
Testing done in an accelerated environment needs lean test management.
Testing from sprint 0, continuous, incremental, automated all the way through
Test automation levels increase.
Automation becomes a developer’s job.
UATD, TDD, BDD, exploratory testing practices

18. Testing needs to be done continuously, early, and fast!
In large-scale complex environments, some specialized, centralized testing might still persist !
Source: January 15, 2013, “Consistent Performance In Agile Teams Must Include Testing” Forrester report

19. Higher level of automation needs new practices and tools.
Less focus on GUI automation
Automation beyond the GUI
API automation
Services automation
Better design and reuse
SDLC to develop automation tests
A task for developers
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20. Agenda
Agile disrupts testing as we know it.
TCoE: a concept of the past?
New Agile and existing testing practices remix
The five “must-haves” for Agile testing tools!

21. Agile imposes new requirements on application life-cycle management tools
Smaller teams (3-10)
MvP
Visual requirements over text
Social/ feedback
Frequent release (6+/year, business)
Pull models (e.g., Kanban)
Quality/ testing
Upfront and faster!
Source: October 23, 2012, “The Forrester Wave™: Application Life-Cycle Management , Q4 2012” Forrester report

22. Stay tuned for the “Testing tools landscape 2013 ” coming out In Q2
Agile is also changing the testing tool landscape.
The biggies evolving at different paces . . .
jUnit
xUNIT
nUnit.net
Selenium
Cucumber
Fitnesse
Smaller players. . .Used for Agile testing
SpecFlow
Creeping in
Image source: wallpaperpassion.com (
Stay tuned for the “Testing tools landscape 2013 ” coming out In Q2

23. And imposes five “must-haves” on testing tools
Increased
Greater simplicity
Continuous testing
Improved
More automation

24. Our Agile and Lean Playbook has a wealth of additional information

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26. Diego Lo Giudice