Placebo test management

The Master Test Plan

Why do people want test plans?

Test Management

Eddy Bruin

How to please management about how testing is done

Ray Oei

Impressive looking index. Follow all ‘conventions’.

Put in nonsense to check if someone actually read it

Why do you not want a test plan?

What do you want to communicate

about your testing?

The Agile manifesto

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

The 7 Basic Principles of the Context-Driven School

1.The value of any practice depends on its context.

2.There are good practices in context, but there are no best practices.

3.People, working together, are the most important part of any project’s context.

4.Projects unfold over time in ways that are often not predictable.

5.The product is a solution. If the problem isn’t solved, the product doesn’t work.

6.Good software testing is a challenging intellectual process.

7.Only through judgment and skill, exercised cooperatively throughout the entire project, are we able to do the right things at the right times to effectively test our products.

Test management Treatments

Placebo

Fake, but it will please (temporaraly)

Trojan Horse Virus

A cure in disguise

Antibiotics

A complete treatment

Utilize agile ‘standard’ practices

Utilize agile ‘standard’ practices

TMap style testplan with CDT/RST/HTSM content

TMap style testplan with CDT/RST/HTSM content

Talk the old language, do something new

Talk the old language, do something new

Chance of failure

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Some principles

• Let the team own the test management• Quality assistance• Have a lightweight test framework• Communicate the framework to teams and stakeholders• Show them the options, let the teams choose• Show transparency and show results• Scientific method

http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/im-an-agile-test-managerdo-i-really-exist-presentation

Session Based Test ManagementBe Transparent

Session Based Test ManagementBe Transparent

•Make stakeholders aware they influence quality

•Test sessions (SBTM)

•Smiley board on quality of features

•Involve more people in testing•Bug hunts

•User sessions

•Tell the test story

Slack management

Example of change

Test management overview

Features

All acceptance criteria checked

(or not!)

Epics Links to documentation

Notes

Warning! Open issues

Some practices

• Mindmaps• Slack management• Test ideas• Risk analyses

• Nightmare headline game• Product risk analyses

• Create a learning culture• Walk in sessions• Gather tester and let them present what they did and want to do

• Session Based Test Management• Be transparent

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ray.oei@avg.com

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