Fwd: Agile Testing Days 2010 - Call for Papers

[Lisa Crispin-2]

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From: José Díaz <jose.diaz@...>
Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Subject: Agile Testing Days 2010 - Call for Papers
To: José Díaz <jose.diaz@...>
Cc: "alessandro@..." <alessandro@...>,
Díaz&HilterscheidGmbH <EXCHANGE1@...>


  Dear all,



we are very proud to inform you that the call for papers for the Agile
Testing Days 2010 starts today.

If you are interested, submit please your paper till January 31st, 2010



You can find the template under www.agiletestingdays.com



I would really appreciate if you could forward this information to all your
interested contacts.



The Agile Testing Days 2010 will take place in Berlin, from October 4th  to
7th.



On October 4th we will have planned tutorials by now with:



Isabel Evans and Stuart Reid

Elisabeth Hendrickson

Lisa Crispin

Michael Bolton

Janet Gregory

James Lyndsay and

Shane Parkinson



On October 4th Evening we will have the Speakers dinner



On October 5th and 6th we will have the conference



On October 5th we will have the “Agile Testing Days Night Event”



On October 7th we will have Free Space



We need your support to get again a good conference.

You can follow our work in twitter #agiletd



Please don’t hesitate to contact me, if you have any question.



Best regards



José Díaz





 ------------------------------------------------
José M. Díaz Delgado
Managing Director

 Díaz & Hilterscheid Unternehmensberatung GmbH
Kurfürstendamm 179
10707 Berlin

 Telefon: [phone] - 0
Telefax: [phone] - 99
Mobil: [phone]

 Internet:
www.diazhilterscheid.de

 Email:
jose.diaz@...





--
Lisa Crispin
Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers
and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
http://lisacrispin.com

[romevsf]

Here is my brief introduction into Agile testing, it's free and it's weather proved

1. Automate everything you can across all applications that you need to test. Do it horizontally: cover all application features without drilling into very specific and complicated scenarios (the more complex automation, the more it's complicated to maintain, debug and later analyze test results - it's more expensive)

2. Meanwhile write test plans, if you have engineering specs, perfect! No specs still write test plans working with someone who is expert in the particular feature. it could be professional services, tech support or seasoned QA engineer. Note: for Agile don't write traditional waterfall test plans. Takes too much time and your qa team will not catch up with frequent releases typical for Agile. If you have specs, just convert them into test plans, modifying how it should work into how to tests it. Don't forget negative test cases! Store all your test plans in database (Sharepoint is superb).

3. Now here is a catch with Agile and limited qa resources (typical). Can your team execute All test plans (100% coverage) in Agile? No. Release every 2 or 3 weeks will not allow it most of the time. That's were Horizontal Automation comes into power. First round of tests once QA team received new staging build, goes through Horizontal Automation, that will go through all application features and will determine overall state of the build. It's like physical checkup if you wish with the your home physician. Usually if automation runs smoothly withoiut hick-ups and and passes 80-90% it tells that build is ready to be QAed.
I personally usually wait for few more cycles of staging builds before passing Candidate A build to QA team  for Vertical (features rich tests)
Tip: have number of hours for each test plan to be executed, so that you know exactly how many man hours your team need to complete all tests plans assigned for the current production release. The important point is to have full coverage during 2 production cycles. By good test planning it is easy to achieve (so far MS Sharepoint is the best management tool i have ever worked with)

4. Define set of rules for each QA process within QA team for staging release, production release, hot fix release. Ask every QA engineer to display printed set of rules, so that they don't miss anything. The rules could include how to log defects, how to follow up with the status of defects, how to test positively and negatively, special areas of importance, etc.

5. Write good and comprehensive QA Manual and publish it on QA Wiki pages.

6. Automation results should be stored in database and always available


Here is just a quick set of tips. It helped me to manage and direct various QA teams in the past few years, by brining messy and buggy software to the reliable and robust applications with state of the art QA team.

Remember: Organization Dedication Automation (ODA) three major components for group of people i work with.

Cheers!










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From: Lisa Crispin <lisa.crispin@...>
To: agile-testing@...
Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 7:59:53 AM
Subject: [agile-testing] Fwd: Agile Testing Days 2010 - Call for Papers

 



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: José Díaz <jose.diaz@diazhilte rscheid.de>
Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Subject: Agile Testing Days 2010  - Call for Papers
To: José Díaz <jose.diaz@diazhilte rscheid.de>
Cc: "alessandro@codicepl astico.com" <alessandro@codicepl astico.com>, Díaz&HilterscheidGmbH <EXCHANGE1@diazhilte rscheid.de>



Dear all,
 
we are very proud to inform you that the
call for papers for the Agile Testing Days 2010 starts today.
If you are interested, submit please your
paper till January 31st, 2010
 
You can find the template under www.agiletestingday s.com
 
I would really appreciate if you could
forward this information to all your interested contacts.
 
The Agile Testing Days 2010 will take place
in Berlin, from October 4th  to 7th.
 
On October 4th we will have planned
tutorials by now with:
 
Isabel Evans and Stuart Reid
Elisabeth Hendrickson
Lisa Crispin
Michael Bolton
Janet Gregory
James Lyndsay and
Shane Parkinson
 
On October 4th Evening we will have
the Speakers dinner
 
On October 5th and 6th we will have the conference
 
On October 5th we will have the “Agile
Testing Days Night Event”
 
On October 7th we will have Free
Space
 
We need your support to get again a good conference.
You can follow our work in twitter #agiletd
 
Please don’t hesitate to contact me, if
you have any question.
 
Best regards
 
José Díaz
 
 
 
------------ --------- --------- --------- ---------
José M. Díaz Delgado
Managing Director
 
Díaz & Hilterscheid Unternehmensberatun g GmbH
Kurfürstendamm 179
10707 Berlin
 
Telefon: [phone] - 0
Telefax: [phone] - 99
Mobil: [phone]
 
Internet:
www.diazhilterschei d.de
 
Email:
jose.diaz@diazhilte rscheid.de
 
 


--
Lisa Crispin
Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
http://lisacrispin. com