Applied Testing Strategy For Agility

Get ready your testing strategy for increased business agility

This is a special type of workshop: exercise your strategic thinking by learning, applying and getting results in the same time. During this workshop the participants explore the types of testing a software team can do with their own advantages and disadvantages, decide which of these tests are useful for their context and create a Testing Strategy for further use.

This is a hands-on workshop with practical exercises, allowing the participants to understand, create and maintain their testing strategy.

Why Attend

Common understanding of the types of tests that can be used
Who, when, where: create, write, document each type of test
Who, when, where, how: run each type of test
Manage each type of tests’ results
Feedback cycles for each test type
Incremental backlog for implementing the new testing strategy

Who Should Attend

Testers
Developers
Architects
Scrum Masters
Product Owners, Product Managers
Technical Managers

Practical Details

Language: English
Experiential, hands-on, interactive online learning with practical examples
Participants will be awarded a Mozaic Works certificate of completion

Duration

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Agenda

Intro. What is Testing Strategy. How it can help a product decrease the testing costs.
Strategic conversations: existing context; identify major issues and desired outcomes
Testing best practices
Strategic conversations: types of tests
Exercise: on 4-5 people group define each type of test by using a template supplied by the trainer
Aggregate the defined types of tests
Group exercise and strategic conversations: formulate first Testing Strategy draft with the guidance of the trainer
Group exercise and strategic conversations: the groups creates a visual improvement roadmap to be able to apply the Testing Strategy with the guidance of the trainer
Group exercise: the journey and next steps to implement the activities from the roadmap
Brainstorm and strategic conversations on potential future improvements and the volunteers to make it happen
Aggregate the final testing strategy containing: types of tests, testing attitude, roadmap to implement it, volunteers and actions
What’s Next

Prerequisites

The attendees of this workshop must know the current context of the product
It is essential that the group is cross-functional (testers, programmers, analysts, architects, team leads, etc) so that all the testing needs are taken into account

What’s next?

Attend a hands-on personalized workshop or masterclass
Plan a few remote 2-hour sessions of Hands-on Training on the Job with the trainer for solving your own challenges. During these sessions you and your team will work on applying the learned concepts directly in your environment.