Thit ticket will give you access only to the full day workshop.
Test leadership is required at organizational and operational levels in many organizations. In this tutorial, we explain the fundamentals of test leadership and have practical exercises to understand it. We discuss what leadership means in different scenarios, where effective test leadership is needed, and where leadership is all too often missing.
Testing leadership is always needed, even if testing or development is subcontracted. Especially in any larger organization, organizational leadership is needed for testing, for example, to set the vision, harmonize testing across different teams, increase productivity, align testing activities, and support different management levels and teams doing the testing.
The tutorial utilizes the ACT2LEAD heuristic about software testing leadership. To understand it properly, the audience is divided into teams with brief exercises for each part of the heuristic. The ACT2LEAD heuristics consists of eight core practices of testing leadership.
We’ll go through eight principles in practice. We'll explore how to add testing into all software development actions (ACT), how to choose the right testing based on context (CONTEXT), how to create visibility for the quality of testing practices and test results (TRANSPARENCY), and how to strike the perfect balance between automated testing and human-driven exploration (2). Then we talk about learning as a way to improve (LEARN), enabling a culture
of quality and continuous improvement (ENABLE), aligning testing efforts with product risks (ADAPT), and implementing diverse testing approaches for finding diverse sets of defects and observations (DIVERSE).
The tutorial includes three exercises set in the context of a large, imaginary corporation case study. In teams, participants create software testing leadership artifacts for the case study organization.
Each participant is encouraged to bring a laptop, although it is enough to have one laptop per four people. Internet access is needed, too.
Each participant gets an ACT 2 LEAD Software Testing Leadership Handbook as an e-book.
Outline :
What is testing leadership
Heuristics for testing leadership, including brief exercises
Organizational and operational levels of testing leadership
Lunch break
Exercises: Create an organizational-level testing policy
Exercise: Plan contractual requirements for testing when testing is outsourced
Exercise: Create an organizational-level strategy or guidelines
Key Takeaways :
Understand the fundamentals of test leadership
How to utilize ACT 2 LEAD heuristics in practice
How to create organizational-level policy and guidelines
How to involve testing in contractual requirements
