Agile Testing Days -Trends and future in testing 2017
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Today I gave a presentation at the Agile Testing Days. The room was packed and we talked about the way the testing profession in evolving. 5 years ago the Dutch Test Association published a book that described the changes in the testing profession. I was one of the 7 authors and we organized a few workshops on the theme. Last may we hosted a retrospective workshop during which the participants evaluated the 2012 predictions. Key question during this workshop was: What is the status of the profession and what skills and role should a tester take in order to add value and a job. In my 2017 ATD presentation I shared the results that of this workshop. I shared the highlights of the book, told what predictions were correct and which were incorrect. But most of all I will shared the opinion of or fellow testers: What do roles do they have now, and what roles do they expect to have in 5 years from now. Join this session if you are sometimes worried about the sustainability of your role, if you want to specialize yourself but wonder what specialisms are a safe bet, if you want to stay ahead of the game and be prepared for the future.
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Agile Testing Days -Trends and future in testing 2017
- 1. My slides are / will be available for you at: Trends and Future in Software testing Derk-Jan de Grood https://djdegrood.wordpress.com/
- 3. 3 “The only constant I am sure of Is this accelerating rate of change” Source:[PeterGrabriel–downsideup]
- 4. 4
- 5. What… has changed in the test profession?
- 6. 2012
- 7. Authors:Huib Schoots, Hans van Loenhoud, Derk-Jan de Grood, Anko Tijman, Pepijn Vorst, Andreas Prins, Jeroen Rosink en Ard Kramer
- 9. IT is rapidly chancing If you do not act, you are left behind Align with future demands
- 10. Predicted trends
- 11. Some predictions we made in 2012 • Dominant economies will shift (Europe lacks behind) • Demographical changes (many more young people) • From ‘owning’ to ‘using’ • Governmental control on e.g. security and finance • Environmental awareness and different usage of energy • Digital transformation and new business models
- 13. Changes that affect us… Test Profession Work & Organization World & technology
- 14. TrendsTesting becomes part of the business Testing becomes part of Develop- ment Testing shifts to production More tool supported Thinking in value chains Personal approach important More attention for legal aspects
- 15. Development in the test profession • Testing will be done by everyone • Testers task will get more diverse • Testing should be faster and more efficient • Testing will become more versatile • Technical & process compliance is important
- 16. P120
- 18. May 2017
- 19. Workshop TestNet 20 How did your work change over the last 5 years?
- 20. Workshop TestNet 21 How did your work change over the last 5 years?
- 21. More Less Started Stopped Keep • Teamwork • Exploratory testing • Automation • Global TestStrat. • Cloud • Releases • Security • Feedback customers • PRA • E2E testing • Working individually • Detailed scripts • Manual Testing • Formal acceptance • Reporting and Logging • Test planning • Uniform tests • Test automation • Using tools • Open source + own build tools • Real time test results • Integrated tests • Using Production Data • Value driven decision making • Data driven decision making • Agile SCRUM • Auditing • Testers that can only test • Detailed test plan • Manual written test reports • PRA (while doing devops) • Quality Focus • Specifications • Drafting test cases based on specifications • Hardcore Testing • Keep learning • Waterfall • UAT 22 How did your work change over the last 5 years?
- 22. More Less Started Stopped Keep • Teamwork • Exploratory testing • Automation • Global TestStrat. • Cloud • Releases • Security • Feedback customers • PRA • E2E testing • Working individually • Detailed scripts • Manual Testing • Formal acceptance • Reporting and Logging • Test planning • Uniform tests • Test automation • Using tools • Open source + own build tools • Real time test results • Integrated tests • Using Production Data • Value driven decision making • Data driven decision making • Agile SCRUM • Auditing • Testers that can only test • Detailed test plan • Manual written test reports • PRA (while doing devops) • Quality Focus • Specifications • Drafting test cases based on specifications • Hardcore Testing • Keep learning • Waterfall • UAT 23 How did your work change over the last 5 years?
- 23. More Less Started Stopped Keep • Teamwork • Exploratory testing • Automation • Global TestStrat. • Cloud • Releases • Security • Feedback customers • PRA • E2E testing • Working individually • Detailed scripts • Manual Testing • Formal acceptance • Reporting and Logging • Test planning • Uniform tests • Test automation • Using tools • Open source + own build tools • Real time test results • Integrated tests • Using Production Data • Value driven decision making • Data driven decision making • Agile SCRUM • Auditing • Testers that can only test • Detailed test plan • Manual written test reports • PRA (while doing devops) • Quality Focus • Specifications • Drafting test cases based on specifications • Hardcore Testing • Keep learning • Waterfall • UAT 24 Testing becomes part of the business How did your work change over the last 5 years?Testing becomes part of Development Thinking in value chains Personal approach important Testing shifts to production More attention for legal aspects More tool supported Test facilitator Acceptation manager Super tester Business consultant Cultural host Auditor Programmeur
- 26. Annotation • The test manager still active • The programmer is not present in the group, but this is logic (test conference) • The test facilitator and super-tester are predicted well • The test coach was not foreseen, but some testers act as test coach. • Test automation has a big emphasis (was the programmer, but testers make a distinction)
- 27. Benchmarking: What do our peers say?
- 28. The Key Areas Where Testers Need to Grow By Josiah Renaudin - June 28, 2017
- 29. “Software testers have been forced to learn new skills and become more adaptable in order to maintain relevance in the development lifecycle.” Skills • Automate test • Code • Shift left • Involved in application creation Understand • DevOps • Performance • Security • Cloud
- 30. Evaluation: • Automate tests: aligns with Automation officer • Code: seems to be missing in our 2017 transition matrix • Shift left aligns with RE but might be underemphasized in our 2017 transition matrix • Involved in application creation: could be part of Ops engineer/ Dev engineer and Mobile app specialist • Use the right tools: nicely covered by the tool researcher (what would his role be? Supporting team with tool knowledge and be on the lookout for new opensource solutions, teach testers to use the tools.)
- 31. The state of the Software Testing Profession 2016–2017 “The role of tester continues to evolve and adapt thanks to the increasing influence of automation, DevOps and Agile. Responsibilities and skill sets are still expanding to include more technical skills and domain knowledge. And, most importantly, the role of tester seems to be holding strong for the foresee-able future”
- 32. What will these task be ? See state of testing report… Does this include Cloud,Mobile, Etc
- 34. Where is the e2e tester? We seem to be missing the automation in our workshop group Maybe add: Customer/Sales support and training
- 35. Avoiding Continuous Bugs: Speed and Quality in DevOps By Jeffery Payne - July 28, 2017 “All software should be releasable—including being adequately tested in a production (or production-like) environment.”
- 36. CI/CD is growing Avoiding Continuous Bugs: Speed and Quality in DevOps By Jeffery Payne - July 28, 2017 “All software should be releasable—including being adequately tested in a production (or production-like) environment.”
- 37. Skills you need to be a good tester Josiah Renaudin: Understand • DevOps • Performance • Security • Cloud Note: that shift left skills are less dominant than automation Customer/Sales support and training, helping user testing
- 38. Where will you be in 5 years?
- 39. Future plans Was expecting more people to move out of testing into agile coaching We stay in our testing profession ! [State of testing report 2017]
- 40. Choices must be made
- 45. New Magazine
- 46. 9th world quality report More emphasis on Test strategy and design
- 48. But most of all… Stay alert be curious, enjoy your profession, and keep learning
Editor's Notes
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- #7: In 2012 kwam dit boek uit. Doel van het boek was om: Trends in kaart te brengen Mensen bewust te maken van …zie komende slides…
- #8: Huib Schoots, Hans van Loenhoud, Derk-Jan de Grood, Anko Tijman, Pepijn Vorst, Andreas Prins, Jeroen Rosink en Ard Kramer
- #23: Interessant zijn: Value driven decision making -> heb je hier een TM voor nodig? PRA wordt meer gedaan? Testers that can only test + keep learing -> compentece lead Less formal acceptance en meer releases: maar in sommige omgevingen werkt dit anders Stopped: detaile dtestpplan and manual writen reports Real time resultd – manual written reports Actie: highlight een paar combies en concludeer dat TM minder wordt
- #24: Interessant zijn: Value driven decision making -> heb je hier een TM voor nodig? PRA wordt meer gedaan? Testers that can only test + keep learing -> compentece lead Less formal acceptance en meer releases: maar in sommige omgevingen werkt dit anders Stopped: detaile dtestpplan and manual writen reports Real time resultd – manual written reports Actie: highlight een paar combies en concludeer dat TM minder wordt
- #25: Interessant zijn: Value driven decision making -> heb je hier een TM voor nodig? PRA wordt meer gedaan? Testers that can only test + keep learing -> compentece lead Less formal acceptance en meer releases: maar in sommige omgevingen werkt dit anders Stopped: detaile dtestpplan and manual writen reports Real time resultd – manual written reports Actie: highlight een paar combies en concludeer dat TM minder wordt
- #30: https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2017/06/key-areas-where-testers-need-grow
- #32: Note: Automate tests: aligns with Automation officer Code: seems to be missing Shift left aligns with RE but might be underemphasized in our 2017 transition matrix Involved in application creation: could be part of Ops engineer Dev engineer and Mobile app specialist Use the right tools: niceley covered by the tool researcher (what would his role be? Supporting team with tool knowledge and be on the lookout for new opensource solutions, teach tester to use the tools.)
- #35: http://qablog.practitest.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/State_of_testing_2017_final_report.pdf
- #36: DevOps development approaches. We also saw a notable jump from 51% to 63% this year for testers that are handling documentation. There may be a number of reasons for this: Testers are taking a more active role in Agile Functional Teams documenting features, or testers given the responsibility to document some non-testing related topics of their project, or maybe testers who are spending more time documenting their work, which is a welcome change, but may also be a burden when they are working on documentation more than on the actual testing itself.
- #37: https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2017/07/avoiding-continuous-bugs-speed-and-quality-devops
- #41: State of testing report 2017