Agile Testing – Maintaining Quality with Agility
Fran O'Hara
Inspire Quality Services
There are well known values and practices in agile that support the delivery of high quality valuable software to the customer. There are many good examples of organisations and teams that are achieving high levels of agility, performance and results. Unfortunately, the reality for many organisations and teams I observe is different. When they try to embrace and maintain increasing levels of agility, mistakes are made and problems result – many of which impact negatively on quality.
This webinar highlights a number of key quality related aspects of agile, identifying common problems and suggests solutions. It will of course include testing but will also discuss experiences with topics such as culture and teams, management support, technical debt and continuous improvement.
About Me!
Fran has 30 years experience in the software industry having worked in development, test, management and now quality/agile consulting. Fran specialises in pragmatic approaches to lean/agile, quality/testing, and associated practices. For the last 10 years, a key element of his work has been providing agile/lean coaching, training and advisory support to organisations transitioning to agile/Scrum with a particular emphasis on agile testing.
He is co-organiser of Agile Tour Ireland and a co-founder of the Irish SIG in Software Testing – SoftTest. His tutorial, ‘Metamorphosis – Moving to Agile and Staying Agile’, was voted best tutorial at EuroSTAR 2016 in Stockholm.