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Agile Testing Workshop – 2 Days

Program Overview: Two Days of Training and Coaching Workshop

The course is aimed at anyone on who wants to learn what testing means on an agile team. All team members will benefit from understanding their contribution and the interaction with testers on the team. Test/QA and development managers, who work with testers, will also find the course valuable.

Agile testing

Target Group and Prerequisites:

  • Testers in Agile projects
  • Project managers entering the Agile environment
  • Managers of teams involved in Agile development

This Agile Testing course is not just for testers. Product Owners, Programmers and all other members of an agile team will benefit from understanding their contribution and the interaction with testers.

Outcome of this workshop:

By the end of this course, attendees will be able to:

  • understand the background to testing in an Agile project
  • understand how Agile teams cooperate and collaborate to deliver quality solutions
  • understand how to plan, perform and discuss quality and testing in the Agile team
  • understand how to set up testing for success in an Agile team
  • understand the background to test automation in an Agile project
  • understand the various tool frameworks available to Agile teams to facilitate the testing of the project
  • understand how to plan, perform and implement automated testing in the Agile team
  • understand how to set up automated testing for ongoing success in an Agile team.

Format of Workshop:

Participants get to understand core principles and in-depth understanding of testing in an Agile/Scrum environment in the form of videos, group discussions, exercises, interactive sessions, innovation games. Following topics in detail will be addressed in a day:

  • The Agile culture and mindset
  • Agile testing components and approaches
  • Categories/Types of testing
  • Test Strategies and Test Planning
    • Project/release level
    • Iteration level
    • Story level
  • Defect management
  • Defect prevention Lean thinking – Build Quality In
  • Test Automation strategy
    • Automation Pyramid – Strategy to approach automation testing on projects
      • Unit Testing
      • Integration Testing
      • Functional Testing
      • Manual Testing
    • Automation planning
      • People
      • Tools – Test/defect management
      • Infrastructure – environment
      • Time
      • Training
      • Automation tools
      • Add –in for test management tool integration
      • Add-in to support AUT (like SAP, oracle etc)
      • Framework set up
      • Tool specific training
    • Frameworks – A set of guidelines which when followed produce beneficial results
      • Linear Scripting
      • The Test Library Architecture Framework.
      • The Data-Driven Testing Framework.
      • The Keyword-Driven or Table-Driven Testing Framework.
      • The Hybrid Test Automation Framework.
  • Automating Testing
    • When and how to introduce test automation?
    • Test Levels
      • Unit
      • Integration
      • Acceptance
    • Mapping tests to test levels
    • ATDD and BDD frameworks
    • UI testing frameworks (Selenium, Geb, Sahi etc.)
  • Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
    • Introduction to CI and CD
    • Demo of Jenkins CI cycle
    • Automated test cycles for every code commit
      • Unit testing
      • Integration testing and quality build with static code analysis tools
      • Automated functional testing
      • Performance testing
      • Release
    • Code Analysis/metrics (FindBugs, CheckStyle, Sonar, PMD etc)
  • Specification by Example or Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) or Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
    • Why we need ATDD
    • How to build a shared understanding of the domain using realistic examples(business, QA, developers)
    • Difference between “Specifications by Example” and Acceptance Tests
    • Common pitfalls with acceptance testing
    • Techniques for keeping the specification alive
  • Automation Support for Integration and System Testing
    • Data management
    • Exploratory testing
    • Non-functional testing
      • When and how agile teams apply performance testing on projects
      • The role of Agile tester and developers in Non-functional testing
    • Virtualisation
      • Environment virtualization with private or public cloud support
      • Service Virtualization – simulates constrained or unavailable systems across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), allowing developers, testers and performance teams to work in parallel for faster delivery and higher application quality and reliability.
  • Exploratory testing and supporting tools
    • Scripting
    • Note taking
    • Mind Mapping
      • For brainstorming and taking discussion notes
      • For defining a testing dashboard
      • To identify tested and untested modules
      • Better way (non-linear) to write exploratory tests
    • Screen capture
  • A/B Testing – the goal is to identify changes to web pages that increase or maximize an outcome of interest
  • Agile testing tools – big visible charts, things on walls, scope, definition of done
  • Metrics to measure Agile Testing
    • Post production release defects
    • Automation (unit, integration and functional) effectiveness over sprints
    • Test coverage tools
  • UAT
    • Incremental UAT vs big bang
    • How to plan UAT in Agile cycle

When conducting these workshops, we focus on an organization’s specific needs, challenges and expertise level in Agile. The practical cases, risk mitigation strategies and emergent practices we share, help organizations to lay a good road-map to agility.

Facilitator will address all the questions from participants about applying Agile Testing practices on real life projects.

Prerequisites:

  • Basic agile knowledge is recommended so the participants can actively contribute with questions and shared experiences.

Infrastructure requirements:

  • Participants will be divided to multiple teams of 3-4 people. Each team will be sitting
  • around round table
  • 2-3 whiteboards at least and markers of different colors
  • Post-its on each table with pens
  • Internet connection to the facilitator to display and pull information from net
  • Audio speakers connected to facilitator laptop

Test Driven Development (TDD) Workshop – 2 Days

Location Register Price Date Trainer
Hyderabad, Lemon Tree Hotel, Hitech City Completed Free (Administrative charges applicable) Feb 03 (This is a one day workshop) Neeraj Kumar, an IIT Kanpur graduate with 20 years of industry experience

Program Overview: TDD Training and Coaching – Hands-on workshop

This hands-on Advanced Test Driven Development will explain the principles and practices of Test Driven Development as described in “Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices” book by Uncle Bob.

This is an intense, hands-on and exercise driven Advanced TDD course which focuses on the design of clean, robust, and maintainable unit and acceptance tests. You will learn the principles of test design, and the practices of keeping tests clean. More importantly, you will learn the principles of designing applications for testability. Exercises include the refactoring of bad tests, the writing of clean tests, and the design and refactoring of applications to make them testable.

Exercises are in Java, but are applicable to C#, C++, and other object oriented languages.

Test Driven Development Workshop

Format of Workshop:

Participants get to understand behavior driven development in the form of sessions and hands-on exercises and discussions.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the thought process and steps involved during a typical test-driven session.
  • Drive the development (design and implementation) of a User Story using automated tests.
  • Discover improved confidence and increase in development speed by writing automated tests first!
  • Identify poorly designed code by using our elaborate code smell vocabulary.
  • Learn various automated refactoring techniques and strategies to carefully clean the identified code smells.
  • Practice key techniques to break coupling between classes and micro-test each component independently.
  • Incrementally transform complex and difficult classes into readable, well-structured, and well-designed code, while keeping them running at all times

Following topics in detail will be addressed in workshop:

  • Unit Testing
    • What is unit testing?
    • Different types of tests: unit, integration, functional
    • Philosophy of Developer Unit Testing
    • Anatomy of Unit Testing Framework
    • Automated Tests
    • Overview of XUnit
    • Testing Pyramid
  • Test Driven Development
    • Introduction to TDD
    • Test First Vs Test Last
    • TDD Rhythm: Red, Green, Refactor
    • Crucial Design Principles
      • SOLID – How the principles of OO are used to design good tests
    • Clean Tests
      • Test Smells
      • Multiple Logical Asserts
      • Accidental Complexity
      • Too Slow
      • Scope Too Wide
      • Slang
      • Cleaning Tests
      • Composed Asserts
      • Composed Results
    • Testing Behaviour vs. State – Mocking and Stubbing
    • Test Conventions and Heuristics
      • Naming Conventions
      • Statistical Testing
      • Principles of Test Encapsulation: Testing Private Methods
      • Testing Inheritance Hierarchies
      • Test Per Class
      • Splitting Test Files
    • Writing Maintainable Tests
      • The Fragile Test ”Problem”
      • Interface Sensitivity
      • Abstract API’s
      • Behaviour Sensitivity
      • Data Sensitivity
      • Context Sensitivity
      • Sensitive Comparison and Equality
      • Test Sensitivity
    • TDD and Design
  • Executable Specification
    • Crafting acceptance criteria for user stories
    • Writing executable examples for each criteria
    • Demo of BDD frameworks (Cucumber, FitNesse, SpecFlow, Jasmine)
  • Beyond Basics
    • Test Doubles/Fakes – Stubs, Mocks, Spy, Simulators…
    • TDD in Legacy Code

When conducting these workshops, we focus on an organization’s specific needs, challenges and expertise level in Agile as TDD implementation has lot to do with Agile maturity of a team/organization.

Facilitator will address all the questions from participants about applying TDD practices on real life projects.

Prerequisites:

Basic Java knowledge is recommended so the participants can actively contribute with questions and shared experiences.

Agile for PMO – 2 Days Workshop

A project management office (PMO) that is engaged in and supportive of transitioning to enterprise Agility can be a tremendous boon. However, when the PMO is not properly involved, it can be a source of resistance as it tries to defend the current process, rather than improve it.

This workshop intends to help in smooth transition of PMO from its current traditional setup to a PMO with full of agility which plays a very important role in meeting organisation’s Agility goals.

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Take Aways from the Workshop

By the end of this course, attendees will be able to:

  • Understand various agility tools like Scrum, Kanban, #noprojects, #estimates, Lean, Value Stream Mapping, Agility at Scale and resolve PMO challenges by using them
  • Identify the existing bottlenecks in the value chain and their role to resolve them.
  • Understand the mechanics to come up with relevant Agile metrics and identify them for their PMO?
  • The new PMO and its roles and responsibilities

TOPICS & PROGRAM

Day 1

Module 1: Agile in a Nut Shell

  • Why Agile?
  • Manifesto, principles and the house of lean
  • Roots of Scrum and One Piece Flow
  • The Toyota Way and the lean principles
  • Kaizen (continuous improvement) vs kaikaku (radical change) in an org

Module 2: Agility Roadmap

  • 5 development stages to full Agile org
  • Introducing Value Stream Mapping, cycle time, takt time and lead time
  • Value Stream Mapping of As Is (portfolio, program and project workflow)  (exercise)

Module 3: PMO As Is

  • PMO’s responsibilities in traditional org
  • Exercise with PMO team to identify
    • a) The current work flow
    • b) Pain points and bottlenecks in serving org’ objective

Module 4: Tools to Handle Bottlenecks

  • Dependencies mgmt through feature teams
  • #noprojects and #noestimates
  • Scaled Agile concepts and frameworks
  • Handle portfolio budgeting problems through Beyond Budgeting concepts
  • Resource utilization in Agile world (exercise)

Day 2

Module 5: The New Agile Portfolio

  • Exercise to handle the bottlenecks in the value chain
  • Exercise to identify the new role of the PMO

Module 6: Agile Metrics

  • New Agile mindset to identify metrics
  • Output vs outcome
  • Patterns and antipatterns
  • Basili’s GQM approach to identify the metrics
  • Exercise to come up metrics on: Project level, Program Level , Portfolio level, Org level

Module 7: The New Agile PMO

  • The PMO and people
  • The PMO and budgeting
  • The PMO and projects
  • The PMO and process

Target Group

PMO Team, IT leaders, Portfolio Management, Program Management will benefit from this workshop.

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to have a basic understanding of Agile.

Format of Workshop

We focus on hands-on exercises based workshop with interactive dialogues, case studies, debates, demos, and instructional games.

Agile for Team Members – 2 Days Workshop

After undergoing this coaching workshop, attendees will be confident of applying Agile thinking and Scrum framework on projects.

Target Group and Prerequisites:

Architects, Program Management, Project Management, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Developers, and Testers, Business Analyst, UI/UX and other roles on the project will benefit from this workshop. Since scrum teams are cross-functional, hence having cross functional group of people together for training will bring very interesting discussions which could benefit everyone.

Outcome of this workshop:

By the end of this course, attendees will be able to know:

  • The essence of Agile which is definitely not limited to Scrum or XP
  • How to become self organised team within a short span of time
  • How to apply iterative approaches in order to go to the production sooner (1-4 weeks)
  • Participants will understand and know how to solve the real world problems which keep happening in majority of the organisations
  • Post this workshop, participants can apply key Agile Management practices to improve effectiveness of business solution and of Agile teams
  • Participants learn Why, When and How to use Agile Engineering/Agile Testing practices effectively to improve quality of deliverables
  • Participants can apply Agile estimation and release planning through story points technique to better forecast their work
  • How to structure your teams to facilitate collaboration, and self-organization to maximize business value to the clients
  • Using Agile empirical metrics to measure progress and quality
  • Using Big Visible charts as information radiators
  • How to set-up successful distributed agile teams and address communication, trust, and quality issues

Format of Workshop:

Participants get to understand core principles and in-depth Agile/Scrum/XP framework in the form of videos, group discussions, exercises, interactive sessions, innovation games. Following topics in detail will be addressed in 2 days:

Why and What is Agile

  • Why different organizations are adopting Agile
  • Agile Values and Principles
  • Agile vs Traditional Approach
  • Business outcome of using Agile

How to start an Agile project and what to expect

  • Agile discovery session and its expectations from participants
  • Concept of Team norms and charter
  • Sprint zero
  • Initial team velocity

Scrum framework in detail

  • Scrum framework in a nut-shell
  • Scrum Roles, Ceremonies and Artifacts
  • Sprint Planning
    1. How to prepare for Sprint planning, pre-planning
    2. How to facilitate a Sprint Planning
    3. Velocity and Commitment driven planning techniques
    4. Definition of Done and Task estimation
  • Daily Stand-up
    1. Why and How
    2. How to optimize stand-up and make it effective
    3. What are the anti-patterns
  • Sprint Review
    1. Facilitate a sprint review and its effectiveness
    2. Patterns and anti-patterns
  • Sprint Retrospective
    1. What, why and how
    2. Different styles of doing retrospective

User Stories

  • What Is/Not a User Story and 3C/INVEST model
  • How to break down big requirements into smaller user-stories
  • How to validate requirements using acceptance criteria
  • Writing acceptance criteria with examples
  • Who and When to write stories with tips

Product Backlog Refinement

  • What, Why, When and How to conduct backlog refinement
  • How to create backlog of a large project
  • Story mapping and/or process maps – how to use them
  • Definition of READY and its consequences to team and Product Owner

Agile Estimation and Planning

  • 5 levels Agile Onion Planning
  • Story Point Estimation and How to do it using planning poker
  • Why NOT to use hours while estimating and planning
  • How to do estimation at Sprint level, Release level

Extreme Programming Practices and Usage

  • Test Automation and automated build
  • Test Driven Development
  • Pair programming explained
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
  • What’s Agile testing?

When conducting these workshops, we focus on an organization’s specific needs, challenges and expertise level in Agile. The practical cases, risk mitigation strategies and best practices we share, help organizations to lay a good road-map to agility.

Facilitator will address all the questions from participants about applying Scrum on real life projects.

Terms and Conditions:

Number of participant/trainees in a batch should not exceed 20 people.

Prerequisites:

  • This course is self-contained and has no prerequisites.

Infrastructure requirements:

  • Participants will be divided to multiple teams of 3-4 people. Each team will be sitting around round table
  • 2-3 whiteboards at least and markers of different colors
  • Post-its on each table with pens

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