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The Abolition of Test
The document critiques traditional software testing roles and emphasizes the necessity of quality responsibility being shared by the entire development team rather than relegated to a separate QA team. It advocates for adaptive culture, continuous integration, and an investment in building high-quality products from the start instead of fixing flaws later. The text underscores the importance of leadership in fostering quality and encourages a shift towards everyone being involved in the testing process.
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The Abolition of Test
- 1. The Abolition of Test? Testis dead! Long live testing!
- 2. A beginning andan End “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” -Peter Drucker
- 3. Requirements Architecture DesignBuild Test Abdication of quality responsibility to “Test” leads to the accumulation of quality debt that cannot be remediated in test.
- 4. Development Sprint Test Sprint Development Sprint Development Sprint Development Sprint Test SprintTest Sprint Test Sprint Regression Sprint All this does is move from a large waterfall to a large cascade
- 6. Test Director Test Manager SeniorTester Senior Tester Test Analyst Test Analyst Etc Test Manager Senior Tester Senior Tester Test Analyst Test Analyst Etc Programme Manager Test Manager Testers Lead BA BA’s Etc… TestGovernance Test Consultant Test Consultant Test Consultant BA Dev Test Product Owner Structural Problems
- 7. All this leadsto this Acceptance System Integration Unit Acceptance System
- 8. The challenge Current conceptionsof testing and their attendant structures lead to the abdication of quality responsibility to test.
- 9. We did itto ourselves
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- 11. The Solution? “Be thechange you want to see in the world” -Mahatma Gandhi
- 12. The client saidthat this works because the developers know that they have 100% responsibility for the application. If it doesn't work, the developers can't say that "QA didn't catch the problem." There is no QA team to blame. The buck stops with the application development team. They better get it right, or heads will roll. As British author Samuel Johnson famously put it, "The prospect of being hanged focuses the mind wonderfully.“ http://blogs.forrester.com/mike_gualtieri/11-02-17-want_better_quality_fire_your_qa_team If we don’t do it to ourselves, someone else will do it to us
- 13. “Investing in testing,means simply this - investing in building a flawed product and then spending more money to "fix it" to make it beautiful. Instead why can't we just invest in a product that is beautiful from day one?” - Satish Satyam https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140817172649-73355280-let-s-get-rid-of-software-testing-or-not Where would you spend your money?
- 14. Splitting the proverbialhair Test Is a separate function in an organisation Is ‘responsible for testing’ Is often seen as an (un)necessary expense Must estimate and get involved according to strict scope Testing Is embedded throughout the lifecycle Is everyone’s responsibility Is seen as vital Is included in everyone’s estimates as a part of what they do
- 15. Together vs separate “Thereis a difference between editing and proof reading. Author and editor co-create. A proof reader just highlights mistakes.” -Matt Mansell
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- 17. How do weadapt? Organisational Test Leadership not Management Quality becoming everyone’s responsibility Adaptive culture among testers; constantly learn new things Better use of available capabilities and tools
- 18. Leadership vs Management “Managementis doing things right; leadership is doing the right things” -Peter Drucker
- 19. Quality it everyone’s responsibility Noneof this Lots of this
- 20. Adaptive Culture “I’m still learning” -Da Vinci age 87 “The more that you read the more that you’ll know. The more that you learn the more places you’ll go” - Dr Seuss
- 21. Better use ofavailable capabilities and tools Continuous Integration, Testing and Delivery • Get technical; learn SOA testing, learn to automate (not GUI automation) • Learn about it and advocate for it, but realise it changes everything about your job Lean Transformation • This is far bigger than test, ultimately everyone from the Board/Minister down need to change Environments on Demand • Learn about how stubbing and environment management products can remedy the environment problems it seems like most testers complain about Get off the beaten track • Learn to do something specialised like Usability Testing
- 22. Turn this intoThat Acceptance System Integration Unit Acceptance System Integration Unit 100% automation 70 to 80% automation Automate as much as possible 10% or less manual functional testing
- 23. A long roadahead “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” -Mahatma Gandhi “Ones destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
- 24. Acknowledgements • Self fulfillingprophecy cartoon: https://ingmarschumacher.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/ do-sovereign-ratings-lead-to-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/