Agile Testing
MAIN TRACK TALK
Dark Testing: anti-patterns and failure stories in testing
Szilard had work as a Test Coach in a large organization. Last Friday, after a week of PI Planning preparation, seeing that all Test improvement initiatives were down-prioritized by the organization (the ART), he cried out loud “What is he doing there? That was just wasting my time!”. He shared his pain in his Agile coach team. They stood up to help him emotionally, telling stories of their own Agile coaching failures, the stories of how Agile implementation is broken. They called these stories “the Dark Agile”. This gave him the idea to turn to our testing community of practice, and ask them for their Dark Testing stories. Surprisingly, in 15 minutes, Szilard has received 32 answers, 32 different testing smells.
In Szilard’s talk, he would like to share some of their stories with analysis of why these patterns could be seen as “normal” within the organization (while they are not!). He will also give ideas on how to solve them with proper change management, coaching or technical solutions A few Dark Agile stories: – Asymmetrical testing – KPIs Tricked – Following a plan over reacting to change – WaterScrumFall – Test Last-Thinking.
What you’ll learn
From this talk you will learn how to:
Session details
A short note from Szilard on his talk
Szilard Szell
Szilard is a DevOps Transformation Lead, Test Coach and SAFe 6.0 SPC. He has years of experience with DevOps transformation especially in the telco industry, and He also worked as an assessor, trainer, facilitator, and coach in test automation and testing process improvement areas. Szilard is very involved in the testing community. He is active in ISTQB, and a member of the Hungarian Software Testing Board (HTB). For many years, Szilard have been working on and supporting conferences like HUSTEF, UCAAT, and EuroSTAR, and Eficode’s very own DEVOPS Conference. In his personal life, he enjoys kayaking on the sea, playing with LEGO and being tested by his teenage daughter.