[Half-day Tutorial] - Pragmatic Testing: What To Do When Your World Is Messy
Often, books, articles, and presentations begin with phrases such as “now that the requirements are complete”, ”now that the testing process is defined”, “now that the team is fully staffed”, or other similar statements. However, most of us live in a world in which these foundations of our work are often not available.
Lee Copeland described a pragmatic approach to testing when your world is messy.Typical messy problems include a lack of organizational commitment to testing, poor system requirements, insufficient stakeholder involvement, ineffective testing processes, poor communication, separation of testers from developers, and lack of tester professionalism. Lee presents a set of effective responses you should consider when you find yourself in these messy situations. Then, Lee showed you how to determine the underlying causes of organizational messiness as a starting point for effective improvement. He described how to determine the root causes of your problems and implement effective solutions when the resolution is within your sphere of influence and also when it is outside of your control. Delegates joined Lee for an examination of both pragmatic testing practices and effective improvement activities.
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