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Refactoring Test Collaboration from Claire Moss

Here are some resources we’re using in my Agile Testing Days USA workshop Refactoring Test Collaboration

Abstract

Collective ownership for testing starts with understanding testing. Rework your team dynamics to evolve past duplication and improve performance through whole team testing. Take home practical patterns for improving your team’s collaboration on testing. Because teams who own testing have more confidence in the customer value of their results.

As the Pragmatic Programmers say, “refactoring is an activity that needs to be undertaken slowly, deliberately, and carefully,” so how do we begin? In this session, we will experience the complex interactions of an agile team focused on demonstrating customer value by answering a series a questions:

Where do testers get their ideas?
How are you planning to accomplish this proposed testing, tester?
Why not automate all the things?
Who is going to do this manual testing and how does it work?
How do we know whether we’re testing the right things?

Build your own list of TODOs from these various practical collaboration approaches and begin deduping your team’s testing for a better first day back at the office.

Key-Learning

Approaches to handle objections to executing the testing work
Ways to mentor test helpers, including pairing
Investing in testing the team believes in
Understand how other team members have been testing the work so far
Advising on opportunities to inject test thinking into all of the team activities, from story writing through to unit testing, to make the system more testable