The speaker: Pawel Kazienko
The talk: “Switching from RUP to Scrum - the tester’s perspective (based on real case)”
Pawel Kazienko
Poland, @Testberries
Pawel Kazienko has been involved in software testing for over 6 years and now owns and runs Testberries - an independent software testing company in Poland. For almost 4 years he has worked for Volvo IT in Sweden where, apart from managing testing on a big scrum project, he has been involved in creating and deploying the test process for scrum projects and the IT test procedure for global Volvo IT. He now spends most of his time advising and helping his clients on quality assurance and testing for their agile and non-agile teams and projects as well as coaching, training and inspiring testers and test teams.
He is experienced in both, testing and test management, is a big fan of exploratory testing and likes to fathom the psychological aspects of being a tester.
Visit www.testberries.com.
The talk “Switching from RUP to Scrum - the tester’s perspective (based on real case)”.
Problem:
Switching from working in a traditional environment (like RUP) to an agile (like Scrum) environment without previous experience is hard, especially from the tester’s/test manager’s point of view as everything is different in agile.
My solution/experience:
The experience shows that while testing is much different in scrum in comparison to RUP, scrum brings many tools and techniques that can help testers and that can make the testing process much more efficient. The testers shall not be afraid as, while scrum is a challenge for them, it also makes their work easier. I will start with talking on RUP and how product development and testing was organized there and then I will discuss agile solutions that were applied like close communication with the customer, limited documentation, continuous build&deploy, 3 weeks sprint etc. and how they helped the test team to test even better. I will also talk on ideas that we thought we would apply but which for some reasons did not work for us.
Learning outcomes:
The audience of the talk should be able to see how testing is different between RUP and scrum, where are the biggest challenges of switching to scrum (from the testing perspective) and how scrum can make testing better and easier comparing to RUP.
