A Test Management Christmas Carol - the ghosts of test management past, present and future. A look into the evolution and revolution of the function of testing management in the maturing world of agile software development.

1. A Test Management Christmas Carol

2. Scrooge’s Testing Christmas

3. About Us
Ben Williams –
Tom Roden –

4. Test manager is not the same asTest management

5. The Ghost Of Test management past

6. Analysis
Blue sky, thought showering ideation
Development
Implement
All conceivable testing
Utterly
Immovable
Live Date
All conceivable testing, hey maybe even unit testing 
Test Planning

7. Test Estimation Techniques

8. Exploratory testing =
Smoke testing =
Stress testing =
Penetration testing =
We say… They hear…

9. Step 1. Remove brain
Step 2. Login to Quality Centre
Step 3. Follow 67 more steps without looking at how the application is behaving
Step 4. Test fails for reason unrelated to test step
Step 5. Step 4 does not compute, enter tight loop until sickness or darkness descends
If the test didn’t find the defect, does the defect really exist?
Stay On Target

10. The Ghost Of Test Management Present

11. Agile is still on the increase
Computer Weekly Jobs, 8thNovember 2012

12. There is no prescribed Test Manager role in Agile methods

13. What does this mean?

14. Has the role changed?
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How many have experienced a change?
lots of people
almost no-one

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16. People reported a decrease in…
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17. People reported no change in…
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18. The Ghost Of Test Management Future

19. “As agile methods continue to replace traditional, the roleof test manager will cease to exist.
Test managerswill cover adifferent role, with abroader scope, utilisinga different skillset.
Teams will need to assume more accountability for test activities than they have done in the past”
Our Hypothesis

20. Inside the teamorOutside the team

21. Defect management?
Inside the teamOutside the team

22. Test Automation?
Inside the teamOutside the team

23. Writing good tests
Self- documenting
Isolated
Concise
A spec not a script
About behaviour
Readable
Clear intention

24. Test Tool Selection?
Inside the teamOutside the team

25. Principles & Strategy?
Inside the teamOutside the team

26. Principles of Testing

27. In order that you ensure qualityAs a team member I want you to be responsible for a lot more

28. This isn’tManagement

29. Test “Managers”, the point is…
Stop ManagingStart enabling!!!

30. Tom Roden –@tommroden
Ben Williams –@13enWilliams
What Do You Do?