Jenna Charlton
Technology Communicator- Test and Agile Leader
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I've been a tester for over a decade and focused on web accessibility, usability, test methodologies, and test and agile leadership. My experience in testing runs the gamut from lone tester on a Scrum team to test lead on an enterprise-level project. I'm passionate about helping teams move to a culture of whole team quality and empowering testers to be quality leaders on their teams.
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Test-Design Based Thinking For Fun and Profit
Test design-based thinking is critical at every level of software development, starting at the user story and continuing until the code has been deployed to production. Testers, developers, designers, and product owners all benefit from understanding the basic techniques for developing good test cases. Developers will find this invaluable when writing unit tests and engaging in TDD, automation engineers can apply these techniques to test creation, and of course manual testers use these techniques to build meaningful and targeted test cases.
Explore the science and the art of designing test cases for unit testing, manual testing, and automated testing, getting hands-on with practical exercises designed to challenge and deepen your skills. Jenna will share key agile, focused test design techniques, including equivalence class, boundary-value, decision table, state transition, and pair/triwise. Leave this workshop with a newfound confidence for developing test cases that find important bugs earlier, and methods to apply these techniques while pairing and mobbing with your team.
Running Risk Assessment Sessions
Jenny and Jenna will suggest several methods, including grouping by pages and user stories. Pick a rating system: how do we talk objectively about the risks we're uncovering? We select a rating system and then give it value. Level-set your rating system: what does our system mean? They will lead the group in level setting your rating system using input from business and product gathered from real users of the system we'll be using!
Assign values: this is the meat of the session. Expect hearty discussions on what features are and how important they are to the system overall. You'll come away from the session with a deeper understanding of risk, its place in our sprints, and hands-on experience with risk assessment sessions.
The Art of Exploration
Exploratory testing is where the art and science of software testing meet and fills in the gap between automation, unit testing, and story testing. Exploratory testing is unique. Unlike other test techniques, exploratory testing values the individual tester’s expertise and perspective, centering the testers’ intuition and knowledge of software as the test basis.
Explore the science and the art of exploratory testing, getting hands-on with exploratory testing by exploring real applications and playing testing games designed to challenge and deepen your skills.
The respected instructor shares key agile, focused exploratory testing guidance while sharing industry best practices you can put to work right away. We’ll cover the art of creating meaningful charters the provide insight into the exploratory testing session and methods and best practices for traceability and coverage measures of exploratory testing.
We’ll dig into heuristics and learn how to best make use of them in a testing session. And we’ll explore the art and practice of both pair and ensemble testing to help you make the most of your exploratory testing.
How Pro Wrestling Made Me a World Champion Tester
Have you ever considered that software testing is like a pro wrestling match? Through my pro
wrestling fandom, I’ve changed the way I think about delivering high quality software. Wrestlers look
to find the perceived vulnerability in their opponent, and exploit it just like a tester would! During this
session, you will learn about applying similar techniques to your test strategies, and how to apply
them within your team. And just like wrestling there are multiple match types to consider, ways to
take down your opponent, and a variety of skills to leverage to your advantage. We’ll discuss…
* Don’t hurt your opponent- viewing the developer as a partner in executing quality
* The lock up- sizing up the task
* The chair shot- picking the right tool for the job
* The reversal- How to pivot when testing turns you on your head
* The tag match- partnering with automation
* And many more concepts to help make you a 5 tester!
Testing 101 for Devs
In Agile, quality has become a team responsibility. Increasingly developers and non-testers are being asked to test and "shift left" but are rarely given the tools to ensure their testing is up to snuff. This often results in wasted time and effort and costly bugs. In this session we’ll cover some of the basics of exploratory testing, testing terminology, and start to think like testers.
Takeaways
• Session based testing with charters
• Unit testing vs functional testing
• Testing lifecycle
• Shifting left and pairing
• Understanding and communicating risk
• Why automation isn’t always the answer
Tools for Navigating Toxic Teams
Creating and maintaining healthy functional teams is an important component to building quality software. Personality conflicts, disrespectful behavior, and coworker animosity can quickly ruin relationships, leading to dysfunctional teams. With the right tools and processes, a toxic team can turn things around!
In this session we’ll discuss tools and tips to help your team become the best version of itself.
Takeaways:
- Navigating conflicting personalities
- Creating common ground across disciplines
- Mending broken relationships
- Building healthy work dynamics
Jenna Charlton
Technology Communicator- Test and Agile Leader
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