Derk-Jan de Grood - 9 Causes of losing valuable testing time - EuroSTAR 2010

Causes of losing valuable testing time

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Key thoughts

Rather than evangelize good testing, we should

emphasize time reduction

Recognizing time killers, enables augmented decisions

Checklist helps Project managers reaching their goals

We can focus on ‘testing’ issues

What business really wants

44

55

66

Testing

6

777

88

have root cause

outside testing

999

1010

1111

Why bother?

1212

MeasuresSolutions

1313

1414

Fru

str

ati

on

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Research

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Losing TESTING time

1717

Losing time

1818

have root cause

outside testing

1919

2020

What is a testers’ job ?

Realization of the system

Improving quality

Identifying risks

Bridge between business

and IT/users

Providing steering

information

Release advise

Supporting governance

Lever for improvements

Filling in information that

should be provided by

others

System design

Debugging

Responsibility for quality

Project management

2121

1. Things that we should not do

2222

2323

Testers are involved in

Risk management

Issue management

Project management

Project Planning

Release management

Setting up acceptance criteria

Defining system behavior or solutions

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2525

2. Doing wrong things

25

2626

2727

2828

2929

3. Chasing Information

29

3030

3131

4. Inefficient working

31

3232

3333

3434

5. Repetition

34

3535

It adds up to…

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3838

3939

Manager not listening..

4040

Derk-Jan de Grood

Valori

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The Netherlands

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