Presented by Markus Hjort and Tiina Kiuru

Abstract:

Exploratory testing requires creativity, knowledge, and skills. Doing it in pairs makes it easy to innovate and share knowledge of different areas. Pair testing also improves communication, builds trust and helps people to understand each other. It is powerful cross-functional agile practice with pairs like developer-tester, tester-business owner, developer-user etc. Pairing also helps developers to shift their mindset form programming to testing.

There are excellent tips and techniques for doing pair programming, but how to do pair testing? The challenge is, how to involve both participants in test design and avoid tester-notekeeper roles.

In this workshop participants will explore pair testing in practice. We will try it with different missions, pairs, and techniques.

Note: the number of participants for this session is limited to 20

Format and length:

Intended audience and prerequisites:

Team members, business owners. No prerequisites.

If you have a laptop, bring it with you.

Objective(s) of the session:

• Test different pair testing techniques
• Learn to do test design in pairs
• Motivate to share information by doing pair testing

Benefits for participants and presenter(s):

For presenters:

• Get experience on pair testing techniques and see which ones could be recommended
• Get insight on how to support working in pairs

For participants:

• Motivation to try exploratory testing with people who possess different expertise
• Tips on how to support less experienced tester in exploratory testing
• Ability to contribute, even with less experience in exploratory testing
• Experience on exploratory testing based on missions