The Right Stuff: Testers in the Agile World

Agile is a major paradigm shift for software development teams–and especially for testers. Some testers struggle to find their identity, may feel like victims of the new agile process, and wonder if they have “the right stuff” to succeed in the agile world. Vinod Malhotra shares his insight on what the right stuff is. First, testers need to customize their processes to fit agile practices. Second, testers–and the whole team–need tools to enable team collaboration, promote transparency, and reduce waste of their limited time and resources. Third and most importantly, testers must alter and transform their mindset to embrace close collaboration with developers, insist on smaller chunks of testable functionality for testing early and often, learn to value working software rather than compliance to specifications, employ exploration in their testing, and embrace change. Join Vinod for a lively and serious discussion on acquiring the right stuff for your team and yourself in the agile world.