Craig is at the YOW! Connected conference and talks to Mark Pedersen, the CTO at KJR, and they talk all things quality and testing:

• the changing role of a tester in an Agile environment, it clarifies the role rather than making it blurrier
• in an Agile environment it does not make sense to have a Test Manager role anymore
• the number of dedicated testing roles are decreasing, but becoming more important and valuable
• most organisations say that they use both waterfall and agile frequently
• build your skills in either a quasi analysis / product owner / acceptance criteria role or get up to speed with sensible technical automation tools for your tech stack
• TDD – good idea but not many organsations practicing it in a dedicated way, unit testing in most industries is a luxury
• BDD – does not make TDD obsolete, defining acceptance criteria upfront helps understand what we need to code
• pair programming – does not deliver much benefit from a test perspective, unless the tester has technical expertise, adoption is still very low
• YOW! Connected talk “Building Mobile App Test Automation“
• mobile testing is challenging and IoT will take it to another level – customer expectations are higher for these devices, they are thought of more like traditional mechanical devices
• mobile and IoT is driving the demand for testers to become more technical – more API and distributed technology tests

TheAgileRevolution-117 (37 minutes)