Practical Testing Strategy for Agile Team

Practical Testing Strategy
for Agile Team
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Who Am I?
2008 Adopt agile in large
organizations
Organizer of
Agile Tour Taipei/
DevOpsDays Taipei
Founder of
the agile community
Good at Design Sprint
David Ko
kojenchieh@gmail.com

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 Committed to making products in a
better way
 It also helps customers make
products in a better way
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 Counseling & Coaching
 Training & Certification
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Agenda
Challenges in Agile/DevOps
Common Principles
Strategy for Test Automation
Tips for Testing Activities
Summary
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The testing was ignored before 2000 AD

Testing is ignored until XP appears
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The reason for being valued is automation
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Agile Testing = Automation?
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Other testing activities
should not be performed?
Performance Test

Test times are often compressed
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Analysis Design Coding Testing
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Testing is not a phase, but how?

Is it possible to do all the tests
in a sprint?
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Performance Test

Is that okay without automation?
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Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 Sprint 4 Sprint 5
10
20
30
40
50
60
Sprint 6
The number of features
to be handled
QA
Dev

Manual testing doesn't seem to be needed?
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Do manual testers need to be thrown away?

Agenda
Common Principles
Summary
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Common Principles
Team
Responsibility over
QA Responsibility Continuous Testing
over Last Testing
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Skills of Team Members
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Basic knowledge should be broad
Environment
Unique
technology
needs
to
be
deep
Testing
one
is
not
enough
Communication
More
is
better
More
is
better
Operation
Automation

Learn/Do what you don't know
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Be automated,
or be killed
Testers Developers
Be able to create useful
test cases, or be killed
80/20 principle,
Let the probability be greater than 0

Assign by their Capability
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Senior Testers
80%: manual, 20%: automated
Good at testing
Junior
Testers/Developers
80%: automated, 20%: manual
Good at coding
Balance the schedule
Outcome > output

Common Principles
Team
Responsibility over
QA Responsibility Continuous Testing
over Last Testing
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Make good use of static testing
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Don’t be a gatekeeper

Arranging Andon Mechanism
Static
Analysis
Build Install Smoke
Test
Build
1021
Build
1022
Build
1023
Build
1024
Andon = CI + Red Alert + Discipline

Plan is nothing, planning is everything
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1 test case, need 5 mins for execution
1 bug, need 10 min for fixing and testing
100 Test cases, need 5 x 100 mins for execution
20 bugs are found, need 10 x 20 min for fixing and testing
Need 5 x 100 min for regression test
Estimation is not accurate because of poor quality

Agenda
Common Principles
Summary
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Treat automation as software
development
Automate with an agile
mindset
Value first over doing everything

Need to Follow up Good Practices
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Code Review Shared Component
Refactoring Source Control

Senior Makes the Plan
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Man that is good at
coding
Develop prototyping first
Define architecture and rules
Man that is not good at
coding/testing
Follow up the samples or rules to
add test cases

All People Need to Do Test Automation
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The boss only knows you have 8 people
But actually only 2 that can write automation

Make Good Use of Existing Tools
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Lots of learning resources, free,
high market share

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development
mindset

Start early, feedback in time
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After the function is written, it starts to test
Waterfall Test when
code is done
Time Time
Bug
number
Bug
number

Correctness is Important
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Not much, but accurate and correct

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development
mindset

Anti Pattern: Ice Cream Combo
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Manual Test
UI Test
Integration
Test
Unit
test

Test Pyramid
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UI Test
Integration
Test
Unit test

Spirit of Test Pyramid
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Need different
granularities
The proportion
of the higher level
should be less

The Suggested Proportion
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UI Test
Integration
Test
Unit Test
10%
20%
70%

Testing Trophy
36
Integration Test
Unit Test
Static
Test
End-2-End
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The more
it resembles
user behavior,
the more confident
it will be
High
Low

大綱
Common Principles
Summary
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Tips for Static Test – Multiple Checks
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Three Amigos
meeting
UI mockup
review
Architecture
review
Test case review
Don’t rely on certain role or person

Tips for Unit Test
• Value first
– frequently used/major features
– Buggy areas
• Add for the part that was not covered before
– Instead of 100% coverage
• Add tests to reproduce bugs
• Execute when codes check-in
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Tips for End-to-End Test
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Integrate with
CI/CD
Broad first and
then deep
Great Opportunity
 Install/Uninstall
 Upgrade/Downgra
de
 BVT/Major/
Detailed
 Feature complete
 End of Sprint

Tips for Exploratory Test
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Pair/Mob Testing
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Bug fixing
Bug Bash
Hardly Reproduce

Tips for Performance Test
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Goal of
Tuning
Time
Proof of
Concept One user
connection
10 K users
connections
100 K user
connections
Progressive tuning
towards higher performance goals

Tips for User Acceptance Test
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Cost
Feedback
Cycle
Low
Short
Long
High
Dev Stage
Later
Early
Sprint Review
Mob
Demo
Internal Beta
Eat Dog
Food
Design Sprint
Concept
Proof
External Beta
Next Version

Agenda
Common Principles
Summary
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Agile testing strategy
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Handle high value parts first
Automation
Early Frequent Value
Each Testing Activities
Work together Continuous
Comon Testing Strategy

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Agile Testing
does not mean Automation
Rather with Agile Spirit
Change quickly to cope with change

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