Demey Wim
Biography:
With
more than 20 years experience in software testing, Wim has gradually evolved to
a versatile generalist covering several aspects of testing. Driven by
versatility and a great eagerness to learn new things he is always looking how
and where he can stretch his comfort zone to deal with new challenges. Over the
years, he took up different roles (e.g. test manager, implementation
consultant, coach, presales) in both technical as non-technical context. It
enables Wim to operate with a helicopter view as well as discussing about the
details.
In the past Wim has spoken at (inter)national conferences and seminars and published articles in magazines like Testing Experience and Professional Tester.
Talks
Consensus-based techniques as secret for effective entry & exit criteria
No matter you are working in agile or waterfall projects, entry & exit
criteria -and even acceptance criteria- are a crucial part of our test strategy. These criteria define the conditions to be met before we start
testing or before deciding to go to the next phase.
In our goal to
make them as objective as possible, testers often lose themselves in
defining too long lists with entry & exit criteria.
In such case, criteria are often ignored and minimized by stakeholders, which leads to a lot of frustration at tester's side.
How can we change this and come up with a set of effective criteria? Consensus-based approaches are definitely the way forward. This presentation highlights some consensus-based techniques with an origin in the agile context. But if you adopt them slightly to a testing context, we can use them to get effective criteria. Illustrated with concrete examples, the audience will get the handles to apply them in their own context.
Performance testing in an agile context, what is below the iceberg?
Most projects are struggling to define an approach when it comes to performance testing.
However, performance matters! There are many examples of companies who have suffered from performance issues and have felt the impact on their brand, reputation and/or revenue.
Where do we stand with performance testing in agile projects? While we have embedded disciplines like development, analysis, functional testing in our agile projects, we are definitely not yet there for performance testing.
There are some obstacles below the iceberg, which block us from embracing and integrating performance testing like we should have to do.
This presentation zooms in on three obstacles: non-functional requirements, planning and team organisation.
For each problem, the challenges are described, and experience-based solutions are given to tackle them.
As a result, everyone working in an agile context will have the handles to start with performance testing and avoid a Titanic scenario.