Testing Craftsmanship Workshop

Workshop I co-presented with Trish Khoo at EuroStar 2013 in Gotenburg, Sweden.

Much of this deck may seem tool-centric, but the shop was really about learning how to learn, learning how to flesh out problems, and thinking about testing as a craft. Tools are just part of that.

Transcript

1. Becming a Testing Craftsman
2. Us! • Trish Khoo • @hogfish • Jim Holmes • @aJimHolmes
3. Why Craftsmanship? • Draws from other craftsmanship movements • Emphasizes continual learning • Values interactions with others as critical
6. Marshmallow challenge • Form groups of 4 • You should have: 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 metre of string, 1 metre of tape and 1 marshmallow. • Build the tallest free-standing structure you can. The marshmallow must be on top. • You have 18 minutes!
7. ENVIRONME NT MASTERY
8. Knowing Your Environment • Setting things up • Virtual Machines • Provisioning & Configuring • Mastering your environment • What are all the moving parts?
9. Demo Deploying Applications Working With Logs
10. Exercise Mine a log
11. CREATING DATA
12. Baseline Datasets • Why use them? • What “shape” do you need?
13. Making Baseline Data • Create from scratch • SQL, code, scripts • Tools
14. Making Baseline Data • Use existing automation • Steal from an existing source • Cleanse privacy info
15. Demo Creating Random Data
16. Exercise Envisioning a dataset
17. Exercise Building Datasets
18. JIGS
19. Jigs • A Jig: one-off tool, template, guide • Scripts • Hotkeys • Regular expressions
20. Demo • Handy “jig” scripts • PowerShell • Bash • Ruby
21. Demo • Handy tools • ZoomIt • Text editors • Launchers
22. Group Exercise Create a jig script
24. Exercise How can you use these new tools for testing problems you’re currently working on?
25. AUTOMATIO N
26. Demo Examples of test approaches in different contexts
28. Tools for Testing • Automation • Differencing • Hard things • Mail
29. One off tools • Custom comparisons • Configuration / setup
30. Other tricks • Searching • File processing • OS process spelunking • Network monitoring
31. Exercises Creating test jigs Writing tests
32. Exercise How can you use these new tools for testing problems you’re currently working on?
33. CRAFTING A TEST APPROACH
39. Exercise How can you use these new tools for testing problems you’re currently working on?
40. Us! • Trish Khoo • @hogfish • Jim Holmes • @aJimHolmes
41. Exercise Create a deployment script
42. Links This presentation: http://goo.gl/4VtFNz Ruby jig exercise worksheet: http://goo. gl/HAr4dR