Talk at Agile Testing Days USA: Testing as Part of the Team Culture!

Last week was the first edition of Agile Testing Days USA, and it was an amazing event and experience!

In this blog post I’ll share the slides, some pics, and tweets of the talk that I delivered on Tuesday: Testing as Part of the Team Culture. Thanks to all who joined me during my talk!

Preparing this talk was a challenge. Although the topic is very interesting, it was hard to include practical information in the amount of time that the presentation lasted. After several rehearsals with some friends and colleagues, I think we made it :). Thanks Adrián, Amparo, Emil, Gallina, Guille, Hele, Joi, Jorge, Juan Pablo, Lucía and María Eugenia for your time and for your valuable feedback! It was a great experience!

Abstract

This presentation is about different changes that were implemented when an interdisciplinary team developing a product started adopting testing as part of their team culture. During the presentation, Claudia will share what they have learned from a testing perspective and also what other lessons were learned beyond testing that helped them build a team culture.
This story is set during the process of building a multi-platform UI prototyping tool (mainly) for interaction designers. It covers a six-year period during which there have been eleven major releases and several intermediate releases. The team, fully dedicated to building the product, consists of highly qualified and experienced professionals: developers (5), interaction designers (1), visual designers (1), technical writers (1), and testers (1).

Slides

Some tweets about the talk

Claire Moss almost live-tweeted all my talk! She types very very very fast! At some point during the talk, her twitter account was locked! Fortunately, she unlocked it easily 🙂 Thanks a lot for your support!

GRRRRRRRRR got locked out of @Twitter again 🙁
This time in the middle of @claubs_uy 's #AgileTDUSA talk
I'm not a bot, y'all!#nosaneuser #fastfingers #livetweeting @AgileTDUSA pic.twitter.com/yeaitrIwoI

— Claire Moss (@aclairefication) June 26, 2018

The talk on “Testing as part of the team culture” by @claubs_uy is about to start and many attendees are attracted by the topic. #AgileTDUSA pic.twitter.com/OU0aiU2Rlu

— AgileTestingDays USA (@AgileTDUSA) June 26, 2018

Very impressed with everything I've heard from @claubs_uy about #agile , #testing , and community organizing! #AgileTDUSA @AgileTDUSA pic.twitter.com/7gXLSyvZ9k

— Claire Moss (@aclairefication) June 26, 2018

I’m a fan of checklists too. These help the team w exploratory testing. #AgileTDUSA @claubs_uy pic.twitter.com/QTCVORoSOS

— lisacrispin (@lisacrispin) June 26, 2018

“We re-use mind maps to avoid rethinking test ideas. Mind maps are extended or updated according to changes in the product.“— @claubs_uy on ‘testing as part of the team culture’ at #AgileTDUSA pic.twitter.com/776m3Yr3ky

— BAD TESTING® (@BADtesting) June 26, 2018

@claubs_uy talking about Testing as Part of the Culture at @AgileTDUSA #AgileTDUSA #testinguy #agiletesting #Uruguay pic.twitter.com/s6v7G3zVbh

— TestingUy (@testingUY) June 26, 2018

Primera representante Uruguaya en @AgileTDUSA @claubs_uy @testingUY pic.twitter.com/E8v6srm66E

— Federico Toledo (@fltoledo) June 26, 2018

Checklists share knowledge explicitly. Tester & Dev collaboration help to identify variables from inside the code that would be hard to find via black box testing. #exploratorytesting @claubs_uy #agile #testing #AgileTDUSA @AgileTDUSA

— Claire Moss (@aclairefication) June 26, 2018

Testing is a team responsibility. Tester acts as a facilitator & evangelist. @claubs_uy #AgileTDUSA

— lisacrispin (@lisacrispin) June 26, 2018

Awesome folks with great ideas! Day 1 #agileTDUSA pic.twitter.com/zeS2pqzbbU

— RAHphael (@RayeAnneHurst) June 27, 2018

This was a good talk and now I just watched the linked Agile TD Mondays episode as well! I especially appreciated the example of the feature mapping. Thanks @claubs_uy! https://t.co/YuBt55MUER

— Nicole E. (@canisrufus) July 5, 2018

At the end of talk, the organization team gave me as present the best speaker gift ever! An awesome lego version of me 🙂 Huge thanks to the organizers for having me and for this lovely present! I had such a great time!