An Agile Partner free seminar on 14 March 2013

1. Agile Testing Games
Seminar – 14 March 2013

2. Who we are…
AGILE PARTNER
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3. OUR SERVICES
Bespoke
Customized
Data exchange
Software Development
Innovation Support
Knowledge Transfer Consulting
Technology
Methodology
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4. Speakers
Christian BAUMANN Yann GENSOLLEN
Senior Consultant Agile Coach
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5. YOU
What about you?
Who are you?
What is your role?
What do you know about “agile” testing?
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6. Why games, why play?
Learning while playing
It´s providing a save environment
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7. Playing @ work!
Why games?
Interesting, playful and fun; work is important, but we
should be able to have fun while doing it.
Goal: broaden horizons to find powerful and novel
concepts people can put into practice (= key concept).
Different kinds
Innovation Games to help hear a customer's voice
Coding katas
Legos for facilitating and problem solving
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8. Let´s play!
Let´s play!
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9. Let´s Play!
The Dice Game
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10. The Dice Game
How to
One participant starts rolling a set of ~5 dices
Every participant gives a guess about his expected
result
Facilitator "calculates" real outcome & tells the
participants
Next round starts by rolling another participant rolling
the dices
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11. The Dice Game
Rules
There are no rules. Participants may vary the number
of dices, exchange them, etc.
No questions regarding the underlying algorithm are
allowed. Every participant gives a guess, and the
facilitator gives the correct result.
Please keep your idea about the algorithm secret!
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12. Debrief
Dice Game
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13. Debrief
Dice Game
Open your mind
Think outside the box
Reduce number of input parameters
Don´t interpret the results
Proof that your model is valid (verify), and adapt if needed
"There are no rules" => What is "correct" testing?
Step back and take a break might help
Sharing & discussing your thoughts with the team leads to results
more quickly
Don´t make assumptions
system may change over time
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14. Let´s Play!
Agile Jenga
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15. Agile Jenga
1 developer, 1 tester
3 iterations
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16. Debrief
Jenga
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17. Debrief
Jenga
It’s good to test small increments of code rather than wait until the
code is 100% complete
less rework
Waterfall: Fundamental bugs will delay the project a lot
Miniwaterfall: Faster feedback
Agile: Avoiding bugs from the very beginning
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18. Q & A + Feedback
Question & Answers
Feedback
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19. R.O.T.I for this SESSION
Source: www.qualitystreet.fr
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20. A FEW MORE QUESTIONS…
What did you like about it?
To make it perfect… what shall we do?
What topic(s) would you like to discuss
during a future session?
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21. Conclusion…
TAKE AWAY
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22. Further Games/ Simulations/ Resources
The Wordcount simulation http://goo.gl/GQlzu
99 Test balloons http://goo.gl/gb85D
The Penny Game http://goo.gl/HKm6T
Drawing Exercise http://goo.gl/0MQfa
Testing Easy Button http://goo.gl/xKJLI
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23. CONTACTS
THANK YOU
Christian Baumann Yann GENSOLLEN
Senior Consultant Agile Coach
cbaumann@agilepartner.net ygensollen@agilepartner.net
+352 691 666 306 +33 6 17 80 98 54
@chbaumann @Yann_G
Retrouvez nous sur :
Agile Partner: www.agilepartner.net & http://blog.agilepartner.net
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