At my talk at EuroSTAR titled “Reinventing Your Testing Role“, I took a live poll of the audience.
Using Google Forms, I had whipped up a 10-question survey that showed results in real time:
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What title best describes your role?
Has your role changed in the last 3 years because of a shift to a new development methodology?
How do you feel about your role when you hear about organizational shifts to be more agile?
If you’re a tester or test manager, have you felt pressure to reinvent / evolve your role?
In the last year at your company, has there been any talk of changing the testing role?
Should “tester” / “test manager” remain a project role?
If you’re a tester, do you have an idea of what role you’d play if there was no longer a testing role?
Can a team with no specified tester / test manager role do good testing?
If testing is not in your job description, do you find value in someone who DOES specialize in it?
Do you think and your company want the same thing from testing?
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I was surprised at some of the results, but I’ll hold my comments until I see yours…
