Lisa Crispin, Author at Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Continuing my learning journey

July 11, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, DevOps, learning for testers, mabl, machine learning, modern testing, test automation, Uncategorized / No Comments

I’ve had such an exciting time the past year and it has led me into an amazing new opportunity, I’d like to share my learning journey so far! Modern testing and data science For the past year, I’ve been inspired by Alan Page and Brent Jensen’s A/B Testing podcast discussions of their “Modern Testing” principles. […]

All-remote retrospective

April 12, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, collaborating, communicating, continual improvement, inclusiveness, remote team members, Retrospectives / No Comments

In February I wrote about the experimental retrospective format for our team’s “cross-pod retro” (so-called, because our large team is divided into smaller pods). Since then, my manager Jo Webb and I have continued to tweak the retro format, based on feedback from surveys done following each retro. Building on feedback Our teammates said they […]

Mob all the things!

March 25, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / exploratory testing, learning for testers, mob programming, mob testing, strong style pairing, Uncategorized, visual thinking strategy, Whole Team Approach / No Comments

I’m so excited that I get to participate in the Mob Programming conference next month- April 12-13 – in Burlington, MA. Check out the program and registration details. This is an amazing opportunity to work in small groups with leaders like Lisi Hocke, Woody Zuill and Llewellyn Falco. An even better way to learn about […]

Courage to coach

March 18, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / continual improvement, modern testing, Retrospectives, safety, Uncategorized, visual thinking strategy, Whole Team Approach / 3 Comments

You might notice that my posts here aren’t necessarily about actually doing testing activities. For the past several years I’ve been one of only three testers on a team of 25 or more coders. Currently, I’m the only tester spread across several mini-teams that add up to around 17 coders. I can’t possibly test every […]

Retrospectives for large teams with many sub-teams

February 14, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / continual improvement, Distributed Teams, Retrospectives, safety, Uncategorized / 2 Comments

My team has 40+ members, distributed into seven or so “pods” and across several locations. It’s a challenge to communicate information among the multiple pods. In addition, we often face obstacles that cross over multiple pods. We usually have a “cross-pod retrospective” once a month. It’s typically in the “Happy/Puzzler/Sad” format. We collect items in […]

Telling stories together while practicing critical thinking with VTS

January 24, 2018 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, brainstorming, collaborating, continual improvement, experiments, fun, learning for testers, Uncategorized, visual thinking strategy, Whole Team Approach / 8 Comments

We use our story telling and critical thinking skills constantly as we test and develop software. How often do we practice those skills on something other than features we are going to release to production? Musicians practice their craft. Even coders can practice their craft with katas and code retreats. How can we practice telling […]