What QA does in an Agile setting Why we're valuable to teams Why QAs should be coders What makes a good QA

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AGILE QA AT ASYNCHRONY

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The Blue Screen Of Death

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This is bad

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So is this

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This is how we work

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No QA for first 3 months of project

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QA involved from the start of the project

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QA doing test automation from the start

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QA role on a team

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Lawful Evil QA

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We never do this

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We do a lot of this

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And this

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This is a problem

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This is a problem

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“I see broken software…”

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Questions?
Links to QA resources on
the next three slides

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Links to QA resources, slide 1 of 3
What is a Quality Advocate
https://mattphilip.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/quality-advocacy/
Things to test
http://infiniteundo.com/post/25230828820/things-you-should-test
Falsehoods programmers believe
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
James Lyndsay in Testing Experience magazine: “Why can’t testers code?”
http://www.testingexperience.com/issues/testingexperience01_03_08.pdf
Where do bugs come from
http://www.slideshare.net/noahsussman/software-entomology-or-where-do-bugs-come-from
Why you should move that button 3px to the left
http://www.gv.com/lib/design-details

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Links to QA resources, slide 2 of 3
Google's testing blog
http://googletesting.blogspot.com/
Google's ten minute test plan
http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2011/09/10-minute-test-plan.html
The difference between quality control and quality assurance
http://www.onquality.info/2011/10/difference-between-qa-and-qc.html
Agile QA testing
http://www.dpwhelan.com/presentations/Agile%20Testing%20and%20the%20Role%20of%20the%20Agile%20Tester%202008-
04-21.pdf
T-shaped testers
http://thesocialtester.co.uk/t-shaped-testers-and-their-role-in-a-team/
http://thesocialtester.co.uk/t-shaped-tester-square-shaped-team/

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Links to QA resources, slide 3 of 3
Selenium Webdriver API for browser testing
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/
Android Monkey for UI tests
https://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html
How to make your Windows network deliberately flaky
http://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/22/clumsy-makes-windows-network-conditions-worse-purpose/
How to make your Mac network deliberately flaky
http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/10/new-in-os-x-lion-network-link-conditioner-utility-lets-you-simulate-internet-and-bandwidth-
conditions/
Gremlins.js for JavaScript random actions
http://www.webappers.com/2014/03/12/gremlins-js-simulates-random-user-actions/