Team Guide to Software Testability
Team Guide to Software Testability
Better software through greater testability
About the Book
Team Guide to Software Testability is the third guidebook in the new collection from Skelton Thatcher Publications.
A practical guide to how testability can help bring teams together to observe, control and understand the systems they build. Enabling them to better meet customer needs, achieve a transparent level of quality and predictability of delivery.
The ‘Team Guide’ collection is designed to help teams building and running software systems to be as effective as possible.
Guides are curated by experienced practitioners and emphasise the need for collaboration and learning, with the team at the centre.
About the Authors
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About the Contributors
Manuel Pais is an independent DevOps and Delivery Consultant, focused on teams and flow.
With a diverse experience including development, build management, testing and QA, Manuel has helped large organizations in finance, legal, and manufacturing adopt test automation and continuous delivery, as well as understand DevOps from both technical and human perspectives.
Manuel is co-author of the Team Guide to Software Releasability book and lead editor for the remaining books in the Team Guide series.
Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Head of Consulting at Conflux (confluxdigital.net), he specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability and organisation dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.
Recognised by TechBeacon in 2018 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (O’Reilly, 2016) and Team Guide to Software Operability (Skelton Thatcher Publications, 2016). He is also co-founder at Conflux Books which publishes books for technologists by technologists.
Table of Contents
- 1. Team Guides for Software
- 2. Praise for Software Testability
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3. Introduction
- 3.1 Why is testability important
- 3.2 What does hard-to-test feel like?
- 3.3 What does testable feel like?
- 3.4 What leads to testability being neglected?
- 3.5 What is covered in this book?
- 3.6 How to use this book
- 3.7 Why we wrote this book
- 3.8 Feedback and suggestions
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4. Set a pragmatic direction for improving testability using trade off sliders
- 4.1 Overcome common challenges to setting a team testability focus
- 4.2 Exercise: do the Team Test for Testability for a quick testability health check
- 4.3 Exercise: use Trade Off Sliders to pragmatically guide your testability focus
- 4.4 Summary
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5. Create testability targets to improve interactions with dependencies
- 5.1 Needs and contributions of different roles to creating a testability mindset
- 5.2 Exercise: employ Testability Dependency Targets to improve interactions with dependent teams and systems
- 5.3 Summary
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6. Adopt testability mapping to expose hard-to-test architectures
- 6.1 Poor architectural testability causes slow feedback and flawed decisions
- 6.2 Identify the symptoms of poor architectural testability
- 6.3 Exercise: Use testing smells to diagnose poor architectural testability
- 6.4 Exercise: adopt testability mapping to measure testing feedback and waste
- 6.5 Summary
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7. Use historical data to fix design problems that inhibit feedback
- 7.1 Explicitly design your architecture for testability
- 7.2 Principles of implementing high testability architectures
- 7.3 Exercise: Apply the CODS model to increase architectural testability
- 7.4 Moving from hard-to-test to high architectural testability
- 7.5 Summary
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8. Adopt ephemeral development environments for fast feedback
- 8.1 Common challenges with static test environments
- 8.2 Use your development environment for fast feedback
- 8.3 Exercise: Use the Agile Test Quadrants to extend testing in your development environment
- 8.4 Summary
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9. Use production data to enhance your testing strategy
- 9.1 Problems with static test strategies in dynamic production environments
- 9.2 Exercise: employ data from production to keep your test strategy relevant
- 9.3 Use deploy and release patterns for feedback on high risk changes
- 9.4 Summary
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10. Use team testing reviews to enable sustainable delivery
- 10.1 The impact of testing debt on wellbeing and sustainable delivery
- 10.2 Adopt a whole team approach to minimising testing debt
- 10.3 Exercise: use the 10 P’s of Testability to track team testing culture
- 10.4 Exercise: adopt incident reviews to target testability improvement actions
- 10.5 Create a physical board to visualise and prioritise testing debt
- 10.6 Summary
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11. References
- 11.1 Chapter 1 - Testability Priorities
- 11.2 Chapter 2 - Testability and Dependencies
- 11.3 Chapter 3 - Testability Mapping
- 11.4 Chapter 4 - Historical Data
- 11.5 Chapter 5 - Ephemeral Development Environments
- 11.6 Chapter 6 - Use Production to Enhance Test Strategy
- 11.7 Chapter 7 - Team Testing Reviews
- 12. Terminology
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13. Appendix - Notes on 10 P’s of Testability
- 13.1 1 - People
- 13.2 2 - Philosophy
- 13.3 3 - Product
- 13.4 4 - Process
- 13.5 5 - Problem
- 13.6 6 - Project
- 13.7 7 - Pipeline
- 13.8 8 - Productivity
- 13.9 9 - Production Issues
- 13.10 10 - Proactivity
- 14. About the authors
- 15. Conflux Books
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