Successful development without QA

Pavel Gabrielcoach, programmer, agile-evangelist

[email protected]

Monday, October 11, 2010

Successful development without QA team

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Monday, October 11, 2010

Your dev team doesn't provide sufficient product

By Gabriel PollardMonday, October 11, 2010

Boss says: several testers will solve our problems

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You don't want extra departments and processes

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?Hire testers or Perfect the team?

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More than 90% of tester jobs require technical skills

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C/C++/J2EE/Perl/Ruby/Python/Network

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You'd like to increase quality to make your boss happy

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You decided to perfect the existing team

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?How?

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1Responsibility

2Awareness

3Communication

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1Responsibility

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?Problems with responsibility

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Who is responsible for the quality?

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Whole team is responsible

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You are responsible

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How to make developers more responsible?

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Teach the developers to be responsible

Ask  ques)ons

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One day...

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What are you going to do about it?

-­‐  I’m  but  one  developer

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What change can you make?

-­‐  I  can  help  colleagues

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So, what are you going to do?

-­‐  I  will  prepare  presenta)on

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Practices

to  boost  responsibility

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Code review

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Demonstrations

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2Awareness

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Developers  are  tolerant?Problems with awareness

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Underperformance

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Bugs

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Bad communication

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Aware developers can cope with any problems

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Teach the developers to be awareness

Ask  ques)ons

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One day...

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Why did you fail to do that?

-­‐  I  could  not  test

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Why did you write this kind of test?

-­‐  We  have  been  always  tes)ng  such  way

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What else can you do?

-­‐  I  don’t  know

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What could help you?

-­‐  I  need  suitable  tes)ng  tool

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What are you going to do about it?

-­‐  I’m  going  to  find  it  and  use  it.

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Practices

can  complement  ques)ons

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TDD/BDD

Test  Driven  DevelopmentBehavior  Driven  Development

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ATDD

Acceptance  test-­‐driven  development

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Retrospectives

to  improve  process  and  discover  tools

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3Communication

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?Problems with communication

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What does a developer need?

to  do  his  work  effec)vely

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Vision

purposes,  target  audience,  use  cases

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Knowledge

peculiari)es  of  business  domain  

per)nent  stories

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Feedback

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Practices

to  improve  communica)on

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Standup meetings

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Company meetings

to  see  internal  processes  and  needs

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Demonstrations

to  get  a  feedback

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Support done by developers

to  understand  real  needs  and  problems  of  the  users

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1Responsibility

2Awareness

3Communication

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?Questions?

Pavel  [email protected]

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Thank you!

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