SQuAD Conference 2007- Day One Tutorials

Lisa Crispin

Lisa has been a tester on agile teams developing web-based applications using XP and Scrum since 2000. Previous to that, she has long experience testing and programming on more traditional teams. She co-authored Testing Extreme Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2002) with Tip House. You can often find Lisa at agile- and testing-related conferences, user group meetings and seminars in the U.S. and Europe, helping people discover good ways for agile teams to do testing, and for testers to add value to agile teams. . She contributes articles related to agile testing to magazines and newsletters such as Better Software, Methods and Tools, Agile Times and Novatica. Find out more about Lisa’s work at http://lisa.crispin.home.att.net.

Agile Testing for “Traditional” Testers and Agile Team Members

Key Points:

  • Applying agile values to testing
  • Differences in agile testing and traditional software testing
  • Agile techniques for writing, automating and executing tests

Is your team beginning to use agile, and you aren’t sure where you fit as a tester? Are you in a more traditional team, but you’ve heard about ‘agile testing’ and wonder what’s in it for you? Perhaps you need ideas to break out of a death spiral of chaos and confusion? Maybe you aren’t primarily in a tester role, but you want to learn how to help your agile team do a better job of testing. Through learning practical techniques and applying them in creative exercises, participants from all backgrounds will discover to help their teams deliver value in a timely manner. You’ll learn the agile “whole team” approach to testing and quality. You’ll learn how to apply agile values and principles to deliver higher quality software. You’ll learn how agile projects differ from traditional software projects. You’ll learn how to get traction on test automation ‘the agile way’.

One way to describe a tester is “someone who habitually questions accepted beliefs”. No matter what your situation, this tutorial will provide tools to help you guide your team.

Alex Pukinskis

Alex has diverse experience helping organizations of all sizes adopt Agile methodologies. Prior to joining Rally, Alex worked as a project manager and coach at ThoughtWorks, where he helped large enterprise companies such as Capital One and Siemens customize agile methodologies for their needs. Alex has also consulted independently, helping startups and independent software vendors improve quality and reduce time-to-market through Agile. With a background that includes both technical work and management, Alex is skilled with hands-on coaching, mentoring, and training for the entire software life cycle. At Rally, Alex leads the technical coaching practice, guiding teams through agile engineering practices as well as agile project management techniques. Alex is a Certified ScrumMaster Practitioner (CSM-P), and holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut.

Delivering Flawless Tested Software Every Iteration

This presentation introduces the Agile acceptance testing process. Automating acceptance testing is a big part of the picture, but even more important is agreeing as a team on key attributes of the system being built. This presentation heavily emphasizes building consensus so that by the end of the Iteration Planning Meeting, the whole team agrees on exactly what to build

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