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Testing in one week sprints, hierarchy backlog items and test coverage.

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (ClemensReijnen) — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:13:48 -0400

One week sprints are great and bring big benefits to you team and product.

The artifacts that are in your system will be; the backlog with nice small backlog. That small that they can be realized in the one week sprint. your sprint will contain a test plan for the sprint, with related product backlog items. Probably there also will be some additional test plans for other concerns/ risks. The regression test plan finally will contain a collection of test cases gathered from the sprint test plans and the additional test plans. And the customer will use a acceptance test plan for there work.

This works great. And, because the PBI’s with their corresponding test cases are that small the team will have the continuous discussion if the needed validation should be implemented with unit test technology/ automated test or, if it would be easier/ faster/ better/ higher ROI to specify and execute the test as a manual test. Work around testing in this way makes it a real team effort which makes it easier to get testing done in the sprint.

How should we test this PBI?

The test cases during a sprint are that small that also the regression set will become a collection of very small validations of the system. After several ‘one week’ sprints the bigger scenario / end to end test cases are missing. A collection of small validations made the team uncomfortable about the quality of the regression and unit test case set.

For example: when making several settings the system behaves in a different way. In our situation is was the backend connection with either SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013 or O365. Making this setting and saving this setting was one PBI. The different behavior according to this setting where other multiple PBI’s. And the overall collection of settings (all different PBI’s) made the system behaves different. We needed an Activity Diagram to explain its behavior.

The decision to make use of Parent PBI’s is easy made (we called them Features and prefixed them with this name).

Related to these ‘feature’ PBI’s a feature test plan can be created, which will cover the full scenario and all path coverage's. in this way giving the team the comfort that all paths and scenarios are covered.

Finally ending up with a bit more complex organization, but with a better test coverage.

Feature PBI’s broken down in child PBI’s, which are partly implemented in a sprint. A nice additional benefit is that the team focuses on Feature PBI after Feature PBI, implementing them one after another. Activity diagrams support the scenario, and when needed use case or other UML diagrams. The overall scenario (activity diagram) is related to the Feature PBI and the different actions can be related to the child PBI’s. Testers can use their Test Design Techniques when analyzing the UML diagram for test coverage and test cases. And the regression set will be a mix of Sprint Test plan test cases and Feature Test plan test case.

Everything perfect. But the bit more complex organization of the backlog has its challenges. Not all PBI’s relate to a Feature PBI and often a PBI’s influences / relates to multiple Feature PBI’s. The one activity diagram per feature is fake and a theoretically example, the real world is more challenging. See also Martin’s post You can’t stack rank hierarchical work items?.

Although it will give you some extra backlog grooming activities, still Features PBI’s can bring benefit to the system. Don’t try to make it too perfect and definitely have testing knowledge in place for the coverage then it is a good thing to give it a your bigger systems.

6 Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Agile TMap _ The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (ClemensReijnen) — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:07:46 -0400

The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow:
A full day overview, with demo’s and real world experiences of all the testing capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio and needed testing practices.

1: Keynote: The Value of Quality
2: Test Planning
3: Test Specification and Execution
4: Test Controlling and Reporting
5: Test Infrastructure and Virtualization
6: Operations Integration

06 operations and feedback from Clemens Reijnen

Feel free to ping me if you want to have these sessions delivered at your company.

5 Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Agile TMap _ The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (ClemensReijnen) — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:06:03 -0400

The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow:
A full day overview, with demo’s and real world experiences of all the testing capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio and needed testing practices.

1: Keynote: The Value of Quality
2: Test Planning
3: Test Specification and Execution
4: Test Controlling and Reporting
5: Test Infrastructure and Virtualization

05 test infrastructure from Clemens Reijnen

6: Operations Integration

Feel free to ping me if you want to have these sessions delivered at your company.

4 Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Agile TMap _ The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (ClemensReijnen) — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:04:20 -0400

The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow:
A full day overview, with demo’s and real world experiences of all the testing capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio and needed testing practices.

1: Keynote: The Value of Quality
2: Test Planning
3: Test Specification and Execution
4: Test Controlling and Reporting

04 test controlling and tracking from Clemens Reijnen

5: Test Infrastructure and Virtualization
6: Operations Integration

Feel free to ping me if you want to have these sessions delivered at your company.

3 Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Agile TMap _ The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (ClemensReijnen) — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:02:21 -0400

The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow:
A full day overview, with demo’s and real world experiences of all the testing capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio and needed testing practices.

1: Keynote: The Value of Quality
2: Test Planning
3: Test Specification and Execution

03 test specification and execution from Clemens Reijnen

4: Test Controlling and Reporting
5: Test Infrastructure and Virtualization
6: Operations Integration

Feel free to ping me if you want to have these sessions delivered at your company.

2 Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Agile TMap _ The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (ClemensReijnen) — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:00:04 -0400

The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow:
A full day overview, with demo’s and real world experiences of all the testing capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio and needed testing practices.

1: Keynote: The Value of Quality
2: Test Planning

02 test planning from Clemens Reijnen

3: Test Specification and Execution
4: Test Controlling and Reporting
5: Test Infrastructure and Virtualization
6: Operations Integration

Feel free to ping me if you want to have these sessions delivered at your company.

1 Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Agile TMap _ The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (ClemensReijnen) — Sun, 12 May 2013 13:54:45 -0400

The QUALITY A-Z Roadshow:
A full day overview, with demo’s and real world experiences of all the testing capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio and needed testing practices.

1: Keynote: The Value of Quality

01 the value of quality from Clemens Reijnen

2: Test Planning
3: Test Specification and Execution
4: Test Controlling and Reporting
5: Test Infrastructure and Virtualization
6: Operations Integration

Feel free to ping me if you want to have these sessions delivered at your company.

11 Tips for Getting Testing Done in the Sprint

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (clemensreijnen) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:19:35 -0400

The New Normal: Development in Today’s Organizations

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (clemensreijnen) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:44:48 -0400

On channel 9 … spreading the word

Sogeti “Technology Outlook 2013”

info.nospam@nospam.clemensreijnen.nl (ClemensReijnen) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:36:02 -0400

The Sogeti “Technology Outlook 2013” presents what we believe this year will be made of. Not only does it list 12 promising trends, it also provides you with a broader frame to understand what is at stake and how they actually relate. This document is the outcome of a collaborative effort by our SogetiLabs, gathering our most distinguished technology leaders.

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General trends

Overviewing the technology side, we see this interest in the human factor as well: the interest of our clients is moving away from the systems of record towards the systems of engagement.

Concretely this is a move from administrative processes to using technology to improve or reinvent the real interaction with people.

Many companies and organizations have a hard to catch up to the many trends and innovations of the day. ‘.

The best way to get ahead’, to digest all things happening and distill them to form a clear course forward this is to examine how the technology will be adopted and how the use of technology will then change the behavior of people. All of which is highly unpredictable.

Top 12 trends

Mobile BYOD – Bring your own Device, receiving the desired information, being mobile at work stays a top trend. Supporting a connecting workforce through Mobile/BYOD makes organizations attractive to new employees also aiming to increase work experience and productivity.

Augmented Reality –Overlaying the physical world with a digital layer is changing the interaction between people, objects and information. It’s all about living your life inside Facebook.

Smart TV –The ultimate media device: Interactive, HD and social raising questions such as who is in control of the content. Integration of Internet and Web 2.0 features into television sets and set-top boxes, as well as the technological convergence between computers and these television sets/set-top boxes.

Big Data – Big Data shows the hidden patterns in all sorts of data and help predict behavior and do predictive simulations. Big Data will improve customer insight, target customers and track sentiments online.

Cloud Services – The business promise of Cloud Computing is simple: Worry-free IT. Expected adoption is enormous. Application services are the first step to adoption. New way of software design will appear and there will be a rise of Cloud disaster recovery. In addition, real time analytics and Big Data will strengthen Cloud usage and storage of data.

Jericho Style Security – Securing the data, not the device, is the new security trend bringing a more granular and flexible security approach.

Privacy Enhancing Technologies – Technology to be used to turn privacy into a differentiating selling point. Big Data and other intrusive technologies require making Privacy a fundamental principle when designing new solutions.

Quality Assurance Across the Application Lifecycle – Testing of new applications is not enough anymore. A more complete Quality approach across the entire Application Lifecycle is one key success factor for the future. Testing or Quality are no longer restricted to the test teams, it is a shared IT and business responsibility.

Agile Methods – Agile has become a new paradigm to manage projects focusing on transparency, collaboration, iterative and incremental development significantly reducing the time-to-market. While initially Agile was mostly used in IT, it is now increasingly also applied in “business” projects.

Model Driven Engineering – With the maturity of modeling tools, Models are no longer used only for documentation in the software development process, they are now an integral part of the development and even operations process, allowing traceability between models, code generation, and automated testing.

3D Printing – 3D Printing will transform product information, non-food, retail and create an explosion of personalization. In short, consumers take over! 3D printing fosters agility which is a key factor for the years to come.

Internet of Things – Connecting physical things to the internet makes possible to access remote sensor data and to control the physical world from a distance. Sensors and smart devices will be making our lives easier and allow for optimization of large complex systems such as transportation grids, utilities, healthcare and others. New synergistic services will be developed that go beyond the possibilities of the current isolated embedded system.

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