TestBustersNewsletter #84

Happy Friday TestBusters,

in this issue we have the first article from a ghost...?hh guest writer.

When your want to know the maturity of your agile team regarding CI/CD/DevOps/Test & Test Automation then you should read the article from Robert Ruzitschka, Agile Engineering Coach at Raiffeisen Bank International about their Agile Engineering Maturity Model.

We got a lot of great findings from our TestBustersReporter since the last issue of this newsletter. Among others, you can read about the "TMAP End-to-end Quality Engineering at scale" which is close to the TestOps approach and Zhimin Zhan wrote an article about "Filter Out Fake Test Automation Engineers in Interviews".

The next TestBusters event is the 4th. Agile Engineering Night by Checkly and will happen on the 15th. June, where you can find out which agile engineering practices can be used by a product manager to create a successful MVP.

Apropos product manager. Dynatrace is looking for a Product Manager (f/m/x) - Check it out in the jobs section.

Happy Reading

#theCharmingOrganizer

An Agile Engineering Maturity Review for self-evaluation (by Robert Ruzitschka)

Even if teams have a good understanding of their problem space, experience shows that many of them still need some ideas on where to start improvements related to engineering practices.

For this purpose, the team of Engineering Coaches at RBI Head Office has created the Agile Engineering Maturity Review. This review is done based on a simple questionnaire that describes engineering capabilities in the areas of CI/CD, DevOps, Test, and Test Automation in various degrees of maturity. In a joint session, the team selects the answer that describes their current way of working best and thus puts itself into a maturity bucket.

It is strictly a self-evaluation process by the team, the framework just provides some guidance and structure and assures that all of the relevant areas are covered. This review process gives a baseline, it helps the teams to create a common understanding of their way of working, and it also helps to figure out where to start any improvement activities.?

Now RBI open-sourced this model!

What it is:

• a tool to have a structured discussion around engineering practices
• help to create a common understanding
• a tool to create a team-internal feeling of "where are we"

What it is not:

• a mechanism to rank teams
• an objective way to measure team maturity
• perfect and complete :-D

Use it, if you like it! Modify as you deem necessary and apply it in your specific ways. Have fun!

More about the AEMM you will find in this podcast from Joe Colantonio.

The AEMM you can download here .

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• 6:00pm - Doors open, Remote
• 6:10pm - Welcome AgileEngineeringNight, #theCharmingOrganizer
• 6:15pm - End-to-End Tests in isolation by using API contracts with Cypress & Pactflow, Lewis Prescott
• 6:50pm - How to develop a Minimum Viable Product with Story Mapping, Prototyping & Co., Umut Uzgur
• 7:25pm - Talk 3, TBD
• 8:00pm - Call it the day

The Zoom session opens 6pm CEST / 7pm EEST so we can have a timely start.

SANAE Software Testing BEER.EX 2022 - Conference

Creating a successful event from scratch is hard. But the real challenge lies in keeping or even increasing the pace. SANAE Software Testing BEER.EX 2022 aims to be bigger and better than the previous installments of our conference.

With all the technology from test automation frameworks, through robotic-assisted testing to AI, is there a need for a tester? Is testing dead (again)? SANAE Software Testing BEER.EX 2022 will help You to find the answer.

Register:?https://sanae.beer/conference/

Raiffeisen Bank International

• DevOps Engineer -?https://bit.ly/37GB4KP
• Senior Test Automation Engineer -?https://bit.ly/3smMbjk

IVM - Technical Consultants

• Senior Software Tester (m/w/d) -?https://bit.ly/3PRjS6B
• Software Test Engineer (m/w/d) -?https://bit.ly/3N7FF8t

Dynatrace

• Senior Product Manager (f/m/x) - https://careers.dynatrace.com/jobs/454e5650-9cc9-4b5e-a658-572ca529ce5e/

Zhimin Zhan: Four Screening Questions to Filter Out Fake Test Automation Engineers in Interviews.

• Hiring a fake automation tester can be costly. These 4 simple screening questions may help prevent that. Read more...

?Manoj Kumar: Testing GraphQL API

• In the previous chapter, we reviewed some of the basics of GraphQL, the differences between REST and GraphQL, and the core concepts of GraphQL. Now let’s understand more about some of the internal working of core-concepts. And, What components are suggested for testing GraphQL? Read more...

Robert Ruzitschka: Testing in Production

• Testing in Production is an interesting topic, I have to say. Understanding what it means is highly valuable. Let’s dig in! Read more...

Sogeti: End to End quality at scale

• This article considers the management of end-to-end quality in a scaled environment, where control of quality is key when implementing changes in the solution. To control end-to-end quality, organizing an end-to-end test is relevant, but at least as important is to organize prerequisites such as Test environments, Test data, Stakeholder management, and Release management.?Read more...

Trisha Chetani: Targeting the layers - Test automation strategy paradigm

• Mike Cohn, introduced the test pyramid by conveying how different teams are doing the test automation so far in the software industry. The test pyramid was never meant to be used as a test automation strategy. Teams and companies started using the test pyramid as an automation strategy, which should not be the situation. Read more...

QYTERA

Qytera , is Gold Partner DevOps Consulting". As an independent consulting company, Qytera offers DevOps services and solutions for innovative and highly efficient quality management as well as professional testing of IT projects in digital and agile environments. Check out their?E-Book .

XRAY

Xray ?is the #1 Manual & Automated Test Management App for Quality Assurance in Jira. Its aim is to help companies improve the quality of their products through effective and efficient testing. They can plan, execute and track their testing with full requirements traceability. More than 4.5 million testers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month.

DYNATRACE

Founded in Linz, Austria, Dynatrace now has?more than 50 offices around the world ?and is continuing to grow. With this growth, a new global R&D headquarters was opened in Linz in late 2019. Now the company expansion continues as Dynatrace opens another Software Development Lab in Vienna.