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54 P.Gerrard Challenges Skillsareas Tester candidates: onpaper lookgreat, but theydon’t seem to be able to analyse a requirement and be a tester Requirements Test Analysis, Testing Fundamentals Instilling sense that you need to test your work, college kidswant to write code, but not test theirown work Test Motivation,Testing Fundamentals Agile teams, dev and test teams work as ‘agile’ butnot together Testing in Teams Cafeteria agile, teamschoose todo what teams like to do Adapting Testing to Change, AgileTesting Lotsof hands on deck toget things delivered, butwho leads team? Who leadson testing? Test Leadership, Testing in Teams Is the tester the lead on quality? If not,who is? Testing in Teams Everyone does theirown thing, butwho sets the strategy? Gaps and overlaps? Testing in Teams, Test Strategy Brief sprint—devs want to hand off asap, but testers are left behind, left withquestions Testing in Teams Changed focus from testing toquality engineering––but what isqualityengineering? Adapting Testing From tester in teamresponsible forautomation and acceptance, should they move towards being a test coach, testmaster? Coaching Risk analysis, exploration Risk Management Skillsneeded: coaching, exploration and risk management Coaching Architecting for testability Testability TDD and role in test strategy Developer Testing Good design for test––what is it? How torecognize and encourage developers Developer Testing, Testability Exploratory testing, critical mindset, seeing thedifference in confirmation and challenging the product Exploratory Testing, Critical Thinking, Test Motivation Coaching, within the team,devs and users, but also across teams, encouraging observability, logging, instrumentation Coaching, Monitoring, Instrumentation Macro-level consistency checks, instrumentation and logging Monitoring, Instrumentation, Reconciliation Influencing teams—helping themto spot flaws, educating, leading teams, facilitation Coaching. Facilitation Role for policing? Test Assurance Leading retrospectives, continuous improvement, leaving room for innovation and improvization Coaching, Process Improvement Balance between control and innovation Process Improvement Does coaching operate only on a local level? Coaching Is there a difference between coaching testers and developers? Atan individual vs. team level? Coaching Challenging requirements, user stories, etc. Challenging Requirements Waterfall testhas no voice. In agilewe have a voice.To be pro-active is a matterof critical thinking butalso guts Testing in Teams, Assertiveness, CriticalThinking (continued)