Last month, I learned about an agile testing challenge by the Ministry of Testing. The rules are simple:
- Complete 31 tasks in 30 days.
- Share your progress with the hashtag #30daysoftesting on any social media site.
Here is the list of tasks the Ministry of Testing published:
I first thought “Wow this is great, is there a challenge like this for developers?” After a discussion with one of my co-workers, he asked me, “Why not do the 30 days of agile testing as is?” I read the tasks above again. Then came to the conclusion that if I changed a couple of words in the tasks, it would work for a developer. For example, “Pair with a developer on a feature” becomes “Pair with a Tester on a feature”.
If you read the links above, you will notice the challenge was for September. So why I am I starting now? All I can say is that I was busy. Which was a good thing. I was given an opportunity to do this challenge with a few people I am working with at my current client. The four of us (two testers and two developers) will do the challenge starting on October 2. We created a Slack channel on their company’s Slack site to share our progress. In addition to sharing my progress on Slack, I plan to share my thoughts in a “30 days of testing” blog series.
If you are interested in following our progress, please follow the #30daysoftesting hashtag on Twitter.
Task 2: What is Agile Testing?
Task 3: Find a Video about Agile Testing and watch it
Task 4: Read the Agile Manifesto and reflect on the implications of your role
