exploratory testing Archives - Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

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 […]

Pairing For Learning – Across the Team

March 16, 2017 / Lisa Crispin / agile testing, collaborating, experiments, exploratory testing, learning for testers, pairing, strong style pairing, Uncategorized / 3 Comments

I’ve written a lot about pairing over the years, most recently about strong-style pairing with others on my team. Pairing is an excellent way to transfer skills, it offers a lot of advantages for overcoming cognitive biases when testing, and it’s just plain fun. For most of the 4.5 years I’ve been on my current […]

More “Strong Style Pairing” Experiences

October 5, 2016 / Lisa Crispin / collaborating, experiments, exploratory testing, pairing, strong style pairing, Uncategorized / 3 Comments

Following on to my previous post about strong style pairing for testing, I must say that this takes practice! And, I think maybe strong style pairing may not be the best way approach for all pairing situations, but I am learning more benefits of it. I had a golden opportunity to pair with my awesome […]

Pair Testing

September 22, 2016 / Lisa Crispin / collaborating, exploratory testing, pairing, strong style pairing, Uncategorized / 1 Comment

I’ve been meaning to write about pair testing for ages. It’s something I still don’t do enough of. Today I listened to an Agile Amped podcast about strong style pairing with Maaret Pyhäjärvi & Llewellyn Falco. I’ve learned about strong style pairing from Maaret and Llewellyn before, and even tried mob programming with them at various […]

When the whole team owns testing: Building testing skills

September 7, 2016 / Lisa Crispin / agile teams, agile testing, agile testing training, experiments, exploratory testing, Uncategorized, Whole Team Approach / 11 Comments

The Twitterverse and other social media continue to host many discussions on topics such as “Do testers need to code?” As Pete Walen points out in his recent post, the “whole team” approach to delivering software, popularized with agile development, is often misunderstood as “everyone must write production code”. The “Whole Team Approach” in practice […]

Agile Requirements Exploration: How Testers Add Value – ExpoQA 2016

Raji Bhamidipati and I co-facilitated a day-long workshop at ExpoQA Madrid in June. We shared techniques testers can use with their teams to build shared understanding at the product, release, feature, iteration and story levels. Participants worked in teams to try out the various techniques and contribute their own experiences with ways to enable shared […]