1. © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Agile Testing Survey 2012 November 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.scottambler.com

2. © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ How To Use These Slides I have provided these slides, and the raw data behind them, so that others can use them in their own work. You may reuse all, or a part of, this slide deck as long as you provide a clear reference to the source. The suggested reference is: Results from Scott Ambler’s 2012 Agile Testing Survey posted at www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Some slides have notes

3. © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ About the Survey Mid October to mid November 2012 Survey link included in: –www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ pagewww.ambysoft.com/surveys/ –Tweet by @scottwambler –Posting to the Disciplined Agile Delivery discussion forum on LinkedIn –Tweets to attendees of Agile Testing Days 2012 in Potsdam (Nov 2012) Data, summary, and slides downloadable from www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ 178 respondents –26% were developers or modelers, 29% were agile coaches/mentors, 22% were testers –67% had 2+ years of agile experience, 24% 5+ years –37% worked in orgs of 500+ people –20% North American, 69% European, 7% Asia Pacific Goal of the survey was to discover what approaches to testing agile teams were taking.

4. Agile Practice Adoption © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

5. Testing Strategies on Agile Teams 71% report that most or all of their developers test their own code 80% report that testers work very closely with programmers to test throughout the project 48% report that team members pair on a regular basis 41% have an independent test team working in parallel to our development team 30% have an independent test team that will be testing at the end of the lifecycle 29% hold formal reviews of code or other artifacts throughout development 68% hold informal reviews of code or other artifacts throughout development © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

6. Primary Approach to Acceptance Testing © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

7. Primary Approach to Developer Testing © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

8. Challenges Adopting Agile Testing Approaches Question: What has your team found to be the most difficult challenges when adopting agile testing approaches? Choose up to three. 50%Getting all testing done in the current iteration/sprint 37%Adopting test-driven approaches 33%Validating non-functional requirements 33%Getting stakeholders/customers involved with testing 27%Getting developers to test their own code 21%User interface testing 16%Learning to test throughout the lifecycle 13%Adopting new agile testing tools 12%Migrating existing testing and quality professionals to agile 8%Using our existing testing tools to support agile development 8%Remaining regulatory compliant © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

9. About SA+A Scott Ambler + Associates (SAA) is a boutique consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations adopt disciplined agile strategies, particularly at scale. We offer training, coaching, and transformation services. Our website is www.ScottAmbler.com. We can help.www.ScottAmbler.com © 2012 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/