Are your testers valuable?

A talk I presented in May 2016 at Agile Manchester. My first ever conference talk!

Transcript

1. @LIZZIE_POPE ARE YOUR TESTERS VALUABLE?
2. HELP THE TEAM WORK BETTER TOGETHER
3. BEING A TESTER WAS FRUSTRATING
4. THINGS CAN BE BETTER
5. WHY TESTERS FEEL UNDERVALUED
6. AUTOMATION
7. NOT DOING ‘THE WORK’
8. NOT A PRIORITY
10. BLAME
11. NO GLORY
12. UNINVOLVED
13. UNWANTED
14. WORK BELITTLED
15. WORKS ON MY MACHINE!
17. NOT COLLABORATING
18. INFERIORITY
19. TECHNICAL SKILLS
21. £££ $$$ NOT COLLABORATING WORK BELITTLED UNWANTED UNINVOLVED AUTOMATION NOT DOING ‘THE WORK’ BLAME NO GLORY NOT A PRIORITY TECHNICAL SKILLS
22. WHY TESTERS ARE VALUABLE
23. USER PERSPECTIVE
24. BIGGER PICTURE THINKING
25. ATTENTION TO DETAIL
26. FRESH EYES
27. GREAT COMMUNICATORS
28. INFLUENCERS
29. PREDICTING ISSUES
30. REALISTS
31. SAFETY NET
32. PREDICTING ISSUES USER PERSPECTIVE GREAT COMMUNICATORS INFLUENCERS ATTENTION TO DETAIL REALISTS BIGGER PICTURE THINKING FRESH EYES SAFETY NET
33. HOW TO GET THE BEST OUT OF TESTERS
34. INVOLVE EARLY
35. TESTING, NOT CHECKING
36. EMBRACE AUTOMATION
37. PRIORITISE TESTING
40. • Code has been through code review process and is live • Code has Unit/Regression/Selenium Tests • Testing has been done in all environments • Tracking in place - makes sense and is useful • Release has been added to deployment calendar and linked to jira • Stakeholder has signed off on the Prototype (before code review) • Documentation created if applicable DEFINITION OF DONE
41. PRIORITISE TESTING
42. COLLABORATION
43. COLLABORATION
44. EXPLAIN AND INFORM
45. INVOLVE EARLY TESTING, NOT CHECKING COLLABORATION EXPLAIN & INFORM EMBRACE AUTOMATION PRIORITISE TESTING
46. FEEDBACK AND PRAISE
47. FIVE THINGS TO TAKE BACK TO THE OFFICE
48. 1. Testers: Take pride in what you do, show your worth 2. Developers: Support Testers to embrace automation 3. POs/PMs: Give information, explain your decisions 4. Everyone: Understand each others strengths 5. Together: Succeed and fail
49. THANK YOU @LIZZIE_POPE