Testing In The Scaled Agile Framework
Gitte Ottosen
Key2Quality
The arrival of the different scaled agile development models has changed the way of working in an agile context. Scaled Agile Framework or is one of those models. In this eBook, Gitte Ottosen will explore a number of different facts of scaled agile framework. In particular this paper looks at the Agile test strategy. The Agile test strategy has its owns challenges, but adding a level of complexity to this by talking about the test strategy in a scaled agile model brings new challenges to the table. That is the main topic of this paper.
Based on her experience from several agile release trains, she will give you her view on some of the challenges and ways of solving these challenges. Gitte’s primary experience concerning testing in a scaled agile framework is within the SAFe® framework, so this paper will stay within those boundaries. But no matter what scaling mechanism your organisation has chosen to use, you will be able to recognise some of the issues that Gitte will guide you through here.
In this eBook we will explore some of Gitte’s previous experiences in her scaled agile journey, supplemented with an introduction on what the framework specifies about testing.
This will include:
- What SAFe® Says About Testing
- Addressing Quality, Continuous Integration
- The Agile Release Train and how it works
- What is a good Agile Test Strategy in SAFe®
- Creating a strategy
- Test Automation in Scaled Agile Testing
- Agile Testing Quadrants
- What is the role of the Test Manager in SAFe®
This eBook was awarded Best Paper at the 2020 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference. Check out this year’s EuroSTAR Conference.
About Me!
Gitte Ottosen is a test manager and agile/quality coach with a strong focus on a value driven approach to software development. She has more than 25 years of experience in IT, primarily within test, test management and process improvement, in both traditional and agile contexts. The last fifteen years she has primarily worked within an agile context, focusing on supporting a quality mindset across teams and organisations, and improving the processes for some of the largest international companies in Denmark.
As a self-confessed test and agile evangelist who preaches the need for a strong quality and value driven focus, Gitte is a strong advocate for a context-driven approach, a role requiring profound professional insight, passion, and persistence—qualities that Gitte holds in abundance. Gitte is a dedicated trainer within the areas of agile and test, and is a regular speaker at international conferences. She holds several certificates within testing as well as agile: SAFe(r) Program Consultant, ISTQB Expert Level Test Management – Full, Certified agile tester (CAT),
Certified Agile Business Analyst (CABA), TMap Test Engineer, Tmap Test Manager and Certified SCRUM Master.
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