Kari Kakkonen
BIO
Mr. Kari Kakkonen has M.Sc. in Industrial Management with Minor in Information Technology from Aalto University (aalto.fi). He has also studied in University of Wisconsin-Madison (wisc.edu) in United States. He has ISTQB Expert Level Test Management Full, ISTQB Agile Tester, Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist and DASA DevOps Fundamentals certificates, and works mostly with agile testing, lean, test automation and DevOps. He has been working with testing tool implementations, software development and testing processes, software development and testing projects, consulting, and training since 1996. He has worked for various industries, including banking, telecom, embedded software, public sector, commerce. Kari Kakkonen is working in Finland at Knowit (knowit.fi), which is a Nordic ICT services company well-known for testing consultancy and software development, and other innovative ICT related services.
Kari is Treasurer of ISTQB (istqb.org), Chairman of Finnish Software Testing Board FiSTB (fistb.fi), Kari has been included in IT–magazine “Tivi” 100 most influential people listing. Kari is co-author of Agile Testing Foundations –book.
Topic: Exploratory testing basics, experiences and future
Basics about exploratory testing:
• Terminology and techniques
• Test sessions
• Exploratory testing from management and competence development point of view
• Contexts, where exploratory testing is most useful
• How to develop one’s learning and thinking skills to enable exploratory testing
• Skill to question, skill to analyze, skill to assess one’s own activities etc.
• Exploratory Testing in the future, where does it belong, where does it fit?
Workshop: Agile tester
1. ABSTRACT
This workshop talks about Agile Software Development and Testing bringing up main points of how testing happens in agile approaches, where it fits in different agile approaches. We talk about use of automated and manual testing, typical testing approaches born in agile and general testing approaches that apply to agile context.
Slides and exercises will alternate during the course day, giving participants chance to apply the content immediately. Roughly half of the course is exercise time.
2. AGENDA
- The Fundamentals of Agile Software Development
- Aspects of Agile Approaches (XP, Kanban, Scrum)
- Exercise: User story writing and review
- Fundamental Agile Testing Principles, Practices and Processes
- Exercise: Roles and skills needed in Agile Team
- Agile Testing Methods
- Exercise: Tester role in Scrum team
- Assessing Quality Risks and Estimating Test Effort
- Exercise: Products risks
- Exercise: Estimation
- Techniques in Agile Projects
- Exercise: Exploratory testing
- Tools in Agile Projects
3. OBJECTIVES
After completing the course you can handle the basic terminology of agile testing and are familiar with methods and techniques in agile projects. You know different agile testing tools and are aware of what testing tools can achieve. You know where to find more information about agile testing
4. TARGET AUDIENCE
The course is intended for IT professionals involved in Software Testing in agile projects.