The future is now! Page 120 revisited

Earlier this year the Dutch Test association (TestNet) celebrated its 20th anniversary. Shakers and movers from the dutch test profession contributed with various sessions and workshops. One of the workshops was a follow up on the the book “set your course, future and trends in testing” (In Dutch: bepaal je koers, toekomst en trends in testing)

In this workshop Andreas Prins, Hans van Loenhoud and Ard Kramer and I investigated what has changed in the 5 years since the book was published. The book made firm predictions on where the test profession would be heading and what testers would be doing in 10 years time.  The legendary page 120 shows a transition table from old testing roles to new roles that testers can perform. During this wisdom of the crowd workshop we revisited the role transition table, and made a 2017 update of p120.

 

Ard and I shared the results of the workshop in an article that recently has been published on the Testnet News Magazine. You can read it here: Rollen for testers-p120 herschreven

The article is in Dutch. If you speak english and want to learn more about this topic, visit my session at the Agile testing Days that will be held in Potsdam on 14 November.

Continues Cycles in Test Automation (the slides)

Yesterday Ard Kramer and I gave a presentation at the Test Automation Day in Rotterdam. The room was packed and the story told. In the presentation we shared our experience with introducing TA in the organization. Our story does not focus in individual tool and way to script, but we describe how to implement the change in the organization. This presentation describes the full circle…..

• First we bypassed the argument of Test and organizational maturity and made sure that the organization got started with learning how to do TA.
• Then we learned how to make a business case to get buy-in from the management
• Following we made an approach to satisfy different needs by different teams
• We learned how to make the solutions they found accessible for other teams by embedding TA in the organization
• To found out that maturity was a think not to be neglected.

View the slides of the presentation to learn how we dealt with this. The slides contain links to the previous presentations that we referred to during our talk also.

 

Test Automation Cycle

Today Ard Kramer and I will be talking about the continues cycles in Test Automation. It’s the 4th story in a row, and although the story stands on its own, it builds on from previous experiences that we shared.  The Test Automation cycle is depicted below. In the cycle you can see the voyage we made and the key lessons we learned. This model will be the back-bone of our TADNL presentation. Outside the circle we made reference to the previous talks we gave on the Test Automation Day. You can find them below:

2014

• http://www.slideshare.net/DerkJandeGrood/experience-story-implementing-test-automation-in-your-organization
• http://www.slideshare.net/DerkJandeGrood/implementing-test-automation

2013

• http://www.slideshare.net/DerkJandeGrood/im-looking-at-you-to-tell-me-should-i-automate-v10

2012

• http://www.slideshare.net/DerkJandeGrood/ta-day-door-to-open-or-to-lock-in-template-taday-v11

Sharing the 4th lesson of Test Automation on the Test Automation Day

Thursday 18 June the Test Automation Day will be held in the WTC Rotterdam. Together with Ard Kramer I will present the 4th lesson of test automation on the Test Automation Day. The presentation will be our experience story on the implementation of automation within organisations.

The 4th lesson, you might think?
What are the first three lessons? 

Especially for this occasion I dedicated my 15th edition of G(r)ood testing to this topic. You can read this column on the EuroSTAR community pages: G(r)ood testing 15: the 3+1 lessons of test automation. But you can watch the video also: