Reality Driven Testing

Rob Sabourin

AmiBug.Com, Inc.

Many agile teams rework previously deployed stories, even after plenty of in-sprint testing. Well groomed, refined, stories framed with typical, alternate and error scenarios, gracefully described in well formed gherkin, continue to encounter all sorts of bugs. Software engineering consultant, Rob Sabourin, often sees rework in over 20% of deployed stories.

In this webinar Rob shows how agile teams can drive rework down dramatically, often achieving near Zero rework after a story is DONE. Rob teaches teams to identify and implement relevant testing activities above and beyond those derived from well formed requirements. Rob shows agile team members how to identify tests based on reality. He seeks out relevant testing ideas based on what is really being changed in the technological solution. He finds ideas based on what the user really does in the workplace and he discovers rich test ideas based on the real target environments. Delegates learn many excellent strategies to identify, prioritize, and implement reality driven testing. They will ferret out important bugs that really matter eliminating the need for downstream rework.

Key Takeaways:

  1. What user really does helps identify relevant bugs quickly
  2. The real target environment drives operations related test ideas
  3. Real technical work done by team drives relevant technical risk
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About Me!

Robert Sabourin has more than thirty-seven years of management experience, leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Robert has managed, trained, mentored and coached thousands of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization. The author of “I am a Bug!”, the popular software testing children’s book, Robert is an adjunct professor of Software Engineering at McGill University. Robert is the principle consultant (& president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc.

Twitter: @RobertASabourin


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