A nice video about Testing in Agile Environment by James Bach.
Some key notes from the video:
Testers are like the headlights of a car. Testers don't steer the product/project, they illuminate the status of the product to the different stakeholders
Some of the important things that a tester needs to do during a sprint planning phase
Other points:
To be aware of:
Automation - tendency to be biased towards automation, play with tools rather than testing
Some key notes from the video:
Testers are like the headlights of a car. Testers don't steer the product/project, they illuminate the status of the product to the different stakeholders
Some of the important things that a tester needs to do during a sprint planning phase
- Learn (Ask a lot of questions)
- Know about Testability
- Observability
- Controllability (control states, configurable)
- Simplicity - Some features can take longer to test than to develop - Alert the Dev and managers about this
- Going through spec and highlighting dodgy things
Other points:
- Testing directly on the developer machine (Shake n Bake) - a session for 90 minutes or lesser
- Try to test defects as soon as they are fixed, that's when the developers are still thinking about the defects.
To be aware of:
Automation - tendency to be biased towards automation, play with tools rather than testing
