March 2015 Specialist Group in Software Testing THE TESTER SIGiST Spring Conference th Wednesday 4 March 2014 From the Editor Welcome to the spring edition of The Conference Booking Tester. For the first SIGiST Instructions conference of 2015 we return to a Agenda ............ 2 previous SIGiST venue of the Royal College of Obstetricians and To register online, please use the Venue .............. 3 Gynaecologists (RCOG), near link below, or scan the QR code with Regents Park in central London. your smart device. Please note the Abstracts .......... 4 See page 3 for details on how to get BCS booking system accepts there. multiple and third party bookings. https://events.bcs.org/book/1277/ As usual for the conference, we have a mixture of UK and international Extended OATS speakers, and the abstracts for their ........................ 7 presentations are available from page 4. Again we have a “double- session” workshop, “Defect Measurement and Analysis”, run by the United Kingdom Software Metrics Association. Testing Events Listing ............ 12 We are always looking for speakers / Join our Linked-In Group: workshops for the conference, and articles for The Tester. If you want http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mos to speak check out the SIG website: tPopular=&gid=3466623 http://www.bcs.org/category/10880 or contact me if you want to become a published author. Check out the Extended OATS article relating to pair-wise interactions in this issue. Follow us @SIGiST Phill Isles The Tester Editor [email protected] The Tester March 2015 Conference Agenda BCS SIGiST - Spring 2015 Conference Wednesday 4th March 2015 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 27 Sussex Place, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RG. 08:45 Coffee & Registration, Exhibition opens Introduction and Welcome 09:40 Stuart Reid, SIGiST Chair Opening Keynote 09:45 RIP Testing - 2018 Chris Ambler, Head Of Testing, Capita Customer Management 10:45 Open Microphone and Networking session 11:00 Tea / coffee break Morning Workshop Defect Measurement and Analysis Continuous Quality Engineering in a Digital World 11:30 Paul Baker, Head of Quality and Test Engineering / Assurance United Kingdom Software Metrics for Digital Services, Visa Europe Association (UKSMA) Kristina Rungano Masuwa-Morgan et al. Lunch break 12:30 Opportunity to visit the Vendor Exhibition Afternoon Workshop The Pillars of Agile Testing 13:30 David Evans, Partner, Neuri Consulting Defect Measurement and Analysis (continued) United Kingdom Software Metrics UAT - that's what you do with what's left of your project, Association (UKSMA) 14:30 right?! Kristina Rungano Masuwa-Morgan Roy Dalgleish, TSG et al. 15:30 Tea / coffee break Closing Keynote Don’t Get SMACked 16:00 How Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud technologies are reshaping QA and testing John Fodeh, Practice Lead - Quality Engineering & Assurance - Nordics, Cognizant Closing Remarks 17:00 Stuart Reid, SIGiST Chair The SIGiST committee reserves the right to amend the programme if circumstances deem it necessary. Workshops will have limited places. Issue Number 52 The Tester March 2015 SIGiST Conference Venue photo credit: RCOG For the March 2015 conference, the SIGiST returns to a previous venue, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, just off Regent's Park, London. With its excellent lecture theatre and facilities, RCOG is the perfect place for the SIGiST conference. Full details of how to get to RCOG can be found on their website: https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/contact-us/directions/. Baker Street underground is the nearest station to RCOG. Exit the station and turn right on to Baker Street. Continue walking for 200m towards Regent’s Park. Follow the road around to your left on to the Outer Circle. Walk past the first entrance to Sussex Place until you reach the next entrance. Turn left into Sussex Place and the College will be on your right. Issue Number 52 The Tester March 2015 Presentation Abstracts and Speaker Biographies “RIP Testing - 2018” Based around the future of testing and the future of testers. I will discuss my prediction that the testing role as we know it will no “Defect Measurement and longer exist by 2018 but will 'morph' into a Analysis” role of Business Transformist working in a [Workshop] different way to support the stakeholders with 'getting it right first time'. Looking at Promote defects measurement as part of current methods against future methods', United Kingdom Software Metrics the Internet of things and what needs to be Association’s (UKSMA) mission of done to improve successful timely delivery. promoting software metrics and measurement. Testing is dead. Long live testing! Familiarise the software community with UKSMA's “Defect Measurement and Chris Ambler is Head of Testing at Capita Analysis Handbook”. Customer Management. Engage with the professional community on the priorities for defects measurement. This workshop and the UKSMA Defect Measurement and Analysis Handbook offer a unique opportunity to explore strategies “Continuous Quality Engineering and techniques for managing software defects and dealing with their impact on in a Digital World” delivery costs and schedules. Paul Baker is Head of Quality and Test Engineering / Assurance for Digital Services, Visa Europe. “The Pillars of Agile Testing” The craft of agile testing is maturing, and we have plenty of skilled and gifted testers in the industry, honing their skills, sharing experiences and techniques. But do you find that you have trouble making the Issue Number 52 The Tester March 2015 success of individual testers scale from the and yet is also arguably the most significant few to the many? Does their great testing testing stage in driving the secure and get diluted by the mediocrity of average successful implementation of your system, testing in the organisation? while safeguarding the operability of your business. For your organisation to succeed with agile testing, you have to understand these With this in mind, blended from more than things: seventeen years’ experience working in • What goals you are trying to achieve UAT, I will be offering some insights to the • The key measures or indicators for those testing we actually do at the end of projects, goals that would be far safer and far more • The prerequisites for success effective done somewhere earlier in the life • The dependencies and connections cycle. We'll also take a look at some testing between all of the above. activities you may never have considered, that really should be part of your UAT. And In this talk I will share my “Pillars of Testing” we'll even take a look at how to sell your model, as featured in Lisa Crispin and Janet plan to senior management along the way. Gregory’s new book “More Agile Testing”. That way, you can turn your UAT from an The model sets out the structures and exercise on closing the gate on an already dependencies that influence how effective bolted horse, into a key, valuable protection our overall test effort can be in the for your business operability in the face of organisation as a whole. changing systems. David Evans is an experienced agile Roy Dalgleish. After a promising start as a consultant, coach and trainer with over 25 years psychopharmacologist, I realised that my of IT experience. A thought-leader in the field of bedside manner was better suited to working agile quality, he has provided training and with computer systems than actual live patients. consultancy for clients worldwide. A regular Since making the career change, I've spent speaker at events and conferences across more than half my working life testing systems, Europe, David was voted Best Keynote designing how to test systems, teaching other Speaker at Agile Testing Days 2013. He is co- people how to test systems, and explaining to author of the best-selling book “50 Quick Ideas companies why their systems needed testing. to Improve your User Stories”, and has also had Much of that time, I've spent delivering efficient, several papers published in international IT accessible airline baggage and passenger journals. He currently lives and works in the UK, management systems, driving safety and where he is a partner along with Gojko Adzic in security for passengers and top class business Neuri Consulting LLP. He can be reached at processes for airlines. Lately, though, I've been [email protected] on email and working in banking regulation systems. It turns @DavidEvans66 on Twitter. out that it’s all much the same when you get down to it - making sure that folks lives and money are kept safe. “UAT - that's what you do with what's left of your project, “Don’t Get SMACked - How right?!” Social, Mobile, Analytics and UAT is probably one of the most abused Cloud technologies are and most misunderstood stages of testing, reshaping QA and testing” Issue Number 52 The Tester March 2015 The technology shift – what does it With a revolution witnessed in social media, mean to the business? What does it mobile communications, cloud solutions as mean to testing? well as the additional capability to process The need for a well-orchestrated information through analytics, our markets strategy and business models are being impacted in The role of the tester in the new many different ways. As a result, IT world organizations are now expected to deliver changes to the implemented as well as new functionality, fast - sometime within days or John Fodeh John Fodeh has more than 18 even hours. years of experience in software testing with extensive expertise in quality management, What does this mean for us as testers? Can process improvement, testing tools, and we adjust our existing models to cope with strategy. At Cognizant, he heads the Quality that or does it require us to rethink our Engineering and Assurance practice in the models? Nordics and is a part of company’s global QE&A Think Tank team.