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Tutorial H

A Whole Team Approach to Testing in Continuous Delivery

Ashley Hunsberger

Janet Gregory

14:00–17:30 CEST Tuesday 28th Sept

Many testers today find themselves on teams who decide to adopt continuous delivery and DevOps practices, but leave responsibility for all testing activities to the testers. The end result is often more testing to do, less time to do it, and more stress for testers!

To succeed with continuous delivery, the whole delivery team needs to take responsibility for the necessary continuous testing. We need more than infrastructure to get small changes out frequently. We need confidence that those changes won’t cause customer pain, we need quick feedback to learn about the impact of those changes.

In this tutorial, participants will learn how to visualise their deployment pipeline. They’ll also practice using a test suite canvas to discuss what questions each stage in their pipeline needs to answer, and to help understand the value each step provides.

You’ll work in groups to come up with new experiments to help shorten feedback cycles, make sure all essential types of testing – not only automated ones – are done continually, and fit testing into the continuous world.

Whether your tests take minutes or days, and whether your deployments happen hourly or quarterly, you’ll discover benefits.

What you will learn

  1. How to use the test suite canvas to design a pipeline that gives your team confidence to release frequently
  2. How to analyze pipelines from different perspectives to create shorter feedback loops and mitigate risks
  3. Ways your team can design experiments to address the many challenges of testing in a continuous world

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 3.5 Hours
  • Interactive Tutorial
  • Organising, performing and exploring
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Session Speakers

Ashley Hunsberger EuroSTAR speaker

Ashley Hunsberger

Director of Developer and Agile Advocacy – Blackboard, USA

Ashley is the Director of Developer and Agile Advocacy at Blackboard, Inc, where she focuses on advocating for engineers and how they deliver software. She loves working at that intersection of people, process, and technology and has found her career in testing to be a driving force in those areas and a perfect complement to the work she does now. Her guiding principle is “People first. Software second. You can find her on twitter @aahunsberger and LinkedIn

Session Co-Speaker

Janet Gregory EuroSTAR 2021 Committee

Janet Gregory

Consultant – DragonFire, Canada

Janet Gregory is an agile testing and process consultant with DragonFire Inc. She is the co-author with Lisa Crispin of Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction (LeanPub 2019), More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley 2014), and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), the Live Lessons Agile Testing Essentials video course, and “Agile Testing for the Whole Team” 3-day training course. Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testing activities are necessary to develop good quality products. She works with teams to transition to agile development and teaches agile testing courses worldwide. She contributes articles to publications and enjoys sharing her experiences at conferences and user group meetings around the world.

Together with Lisa Crispin, she has founded the Agile Testing Fellowship to grow a community of practitioners who care about quality. For more about Janet’s work and her blog, visit her website.

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