This document discusses awareness and how agile testing may lead to a wider awareness than traditional testing approaches. It suggests that agile testing focuses on raising awareness about what is known and can be changed versus what cannot be influenced. This wider awareness allows testers to choose their own path rather than just accept any path. While more choice is not always good, agile aims to provide an environment where testers can fully participate as "first class testers" with a potentially wider awareness than traditional testers. In the end, the document concludes that agile testers do not always have a wider awareness than traditional testers, but that agile practices can provide opportunities to develop awareness.
12. Awider awareness allow you to choose a path
……..rather than just accept any path
13. “When everyone in the team knows
what everyone else is doing, they
can co-ordinate efforts and avoid
unnecessary duplication of work”
Adrian Cho – The Jazz Process
14. “The first step toward change is
awareness. The second step is
acceptance.”
Nathaniel Branden
17. Experiment with your own
ways of managing:
• What you already know / control
• What you can change / influence
• What you don’t know / out of control
27. Isn’t agile geared towards
raising awareness?
• What do we know? (is it right?)
• What can we change?
• What can’t we change?
• Are we building the right thing?
• Is the customer happy?
• How can we improve as a team?
…..And many more variations on this.
36. Do Agile Testers have
a wider awareness
than traditional?
Not always
But agile (or common sense
development) gives you an environment
to be a first class tester
37. References
INFORMATION OVERLOAD - http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/
MORE CHOICE - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ol1/
PATHS - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hockadilly/
KNOW YOURSELF - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrestlingentropy/
LIMIT - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cgc/
CHOICE - http://www.flickr.com/photos/harrymia/
WRONG LANE - http://www.flickr.com/photos/novecentino/