Diversity in Action: Testing Future Products
Th8 Start Time : 11:00 End Time : 11:45
WATCH:Session intro from Jurian
Have you ever embarked on a testing journey without a clear destination? Context to be explored? Product to be defined? Requirements unclear? The road from the first idea to an operational testing suite is almost never straightforward. In this experience talk I will share the lessons I learned on this road from the very first step until the running test suite today. My assignment was to define a test strategy for certification of products, communicating with each other in a wireless ‘eco-system’. Together, this ‘family’ of products control lighting devices (lamps, luminaires). Interoperability and compliance with the wireless communication protocol are the key quality characteristics.
The challenge: most of the devices to be certified don’t exist yet and nobody could tell us the requirements for interoperability yet. The first products however are very successful, so a rapid growth of the ‘family’ is expected. The test suite has to be designed for scalability to cater for this future growth, but kept to a limited size, so that the product certification remains affordable and executable within a limited time frame. Diversity in action: we have to define requirements and tests for products we don’t even know yet, for a product range that may grow beyond the products we know today. We work in the domain of the hottest innovation in lighting products, we are preparing a test suite for certification of tomorrow’s products.
I will share our successes, but also our failures, because we learned from them. This story is about the leadership we took in finding our stakeholders, challenging them to define the scope, promises and features of the eco-system, gathering and documenting requirements and conducting a product risk analysis. None of these steps were straightforward, but step by step we learned and finally succeeded. We demonstrated the first version of a running certification test suite in December. Join my presentation to see what you can learn from my experiences!
Speaker
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Jurian van de Laar is Test Lead at Philips Healthcare in Best, The Netherlands. Until July 2014 he was senior consultant, trainer and coach at Improve Quality Services B.V.. He has working experience since 1994 in software development, team leading, software quality improvement and testing. He consulted various organizations like InTraffic, Philips (Healthcare, Research and Lighting), Triodos Bank, EuroTransplant, SeaChange and DHL. Jurian has been teacher of courses in agile testing, requirements engineering and was accredited trainer of the ISTQB, IREB and CAT certification programs.
In his new job at Philips Healthcare, he is responsible for developing a test strategy for the development of Image Chain units (hardware and software) for interventional X-Ray systems. Jurian is Professional Scrum Master and Product Owner (Scrum.org) and certified in Prince2, TMap, ISTQB, CAT and IREB. He is author of various publications (e.g. in Testing Experience, Agile Record) and he is a regular speaker at (inter-) national conferences (EuroSTAR 2009, Swiss Requirements Day 2010, Belgium Testing Days 2011 and 2013, Agile Testing Days 2013). Jurian is vice chair of the Belgium and Netherlands Testing Qualifications Board (BNTQB).
Th8 Start Time : 11:00 End Time : 11:45
WATCH:Session intro from Jurian
Have you ever embarked on a testing journey without a clear destination? Context to be explored? Product to be defined? Requirements unclear? The road from the first idea to an operational testing suite is almost never straightforward. In this experience talk I will share the lessons I learned on this road from the very first step until the running test suite today. My assignment was to define a test strategy for certification of products, communicating with each other in a wireless ‘eco-system’. Together, this ‘family’ of products control lighting devices (lamps, luminaires). Interoperability and compliance with the wireless communication protocol are the key quality characteristics.
The challenge: most of the devices to be certified don’t exist yet and nobody could tell us the requirements for interoperability yet. The first products however are very successful, so a rapid growth of the ‘family’ is expected. The test suite has to be designed for scalability to cater for this future growth, but kept to a limited size, so that the product certification remains affordable and executable within a limited time frame. Diversity in action: we have to define requirements and tests for products we don’t even know yet, for a product range that may grow beyond the products we know today. We work in the domain of the hottest innovation in lighting products, we are preparing a test suite for certification of tomorrow’s products.
I will share our successes, but also our failures, because we learned from them. This story is about the leadership we took in finding our stakeholders, challenging them to define the scope, promises and features of the eco-system, gathering and documenting requirements and conducting a product risk analysis. None of these steps were straightforward, but step by step we learned and finally succeeded. We demonstrated the first version of a running certification test suite in December. Join my presentation to see what you can learn from my experiences!
Speaker
Jurian van de Laar is Test Lead at Philips Healthcare in Best, The Netherlands. Until July 2014 he was senior consultant, trainer and coach at Improve Quality Services B.V.. He has working experience since 1994 in software development, team leading, software quality improvement and testing. He consulted various organizations like InTraffic, Philips (Healthcare, Research and Lighting), Triodos Bank, EuroTransplant, SeaChange and DHL. Jurian has been teacher of courses in agile testing, requirements engineering and was accredited trainer of the ISTQB, IREB and CAT certification programs.
In his new job at Philips Healthcare, he is responsible for developing a test strategy for the development of Image Chain units (hardware and software) for interventional X-Ray systems. Jurian is Professional Scrum Master and Product Owner (Scrum.org) and certified in Prince2, TMap, ISTQB, CAT and IREB. He is author of various publications (e.g. in Testing Experience, Agile Record) and he is a regular speaker at (inter-) national conferences (EuroSTAR 2009, Swiss Requirements Day 2010, Belgium Testing Days 2011 and 2013, Agile Testing Days 2013). Jurian is vice chair of the Belgium and Netherlands Testing Qualifications Board (BNTQB).