Keynote “Agile Testing, Uncertainty, Risk, and Why It All Works”

Speaker: Elisabeth Hendrickson

Track: Testing
Audince Level: Practitioners

Teams that succeed with Agile methods reliably deliver shippable software at frequent intervals, at a sustainable pace, while adapting to the changing needs of the business. Unfortunately, not all teams are successful in their attempt to transition to Agile. Some end up with a “frAgile” process that results in lower quality, even more unpredictable schedules, and gut-wrenching chaos. The difference between an Agile and a frAgile process is usually in the degree to which the organization embraces the disciplined engineering practices that support agility, especially testing related practices such as test-driven development, automated regression testing, Continuous Integration, and more. Why do these practices make such a big difference? In this talk, Elisabeth Hendrickson explains why testing is so important in successful Agile adoptions and details how these disciplined engineering practices mitigate common project risks related to uncertainty, ambiguity, assumptions, dependencies, and capacity.