{"id":10003,"date":"2018-06-20T18:39:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:23:46","slug":"next-gen-testers-dont-know-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/next-gen-testers-dont-know-waterfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Gen Testers Don&#8217;t Know Waterfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Go to www.addthis.com\/dashboard to customize your tools --><script src=\"\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-58d80a50fc4f926d\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do we reinvent the \u201cold stuff\u201d to make it efficient and useful again?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/brooke-cagle-195777-unsplash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10009\" src=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/brooke-cagle-195777-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"young woman with laptop\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerkJanDeGrood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derk-Jan de Grood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> commented on in his course after Uruguay\u2019s annual testing conference, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/testinguy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TestingUY<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was very interesting to me, is that most of today\u2019s young testers (the most newly formed ones) did not live through the days of waterfall, and maybe in a few years, none of them will ever go through waterfall, directly starting work in <a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/agile-testing\/benefits-adopting-agile-software-project\/\">Agile environments<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testers who have been in the game for at least ten years surely are or have made the transition, first working with something traditional and now in Agile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on what I have seen in different places, companies, and contexts, the fact that young testers don\u2019t know waterfall software development implies that they maybe:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weren\u2019t trained in test case design techniques<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haven\u2019t worked with documentation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haven\u2019t worked with a defined process<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And as a consequence, I imagine that the value added by the Agile methodologies will not be felt as profoundly by a new tester as one who has worked in waterfall. For example, those of us who have worked in waterfall can especially note how it helps to eliminating waste&#8230; because we have seen that waste firsthand!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, something that Derk-Jan said (and I agree with) is that <\/span><b>we still need to train testers with some traditional testing techniques<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like state machines and decision tables, because they can be used not just with test cases, but can be applied to exploratory testing. We should train new testers so that they have a broad outlook and can define good test strategies (And no, by \u201cdefine a test strategy,\u201d I don\u2019t mean type up a 40 page document!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d like to thank Derk-Jan for making me consider this point! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Question, how do we reinvent the \u201cold stuff\u201d to make it efficient and useful again?<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Recommended for You<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/devops\/much-talk-around-devops-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why So Much Talk Around DevOps Culture?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/can-testers-scrum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/can-testers-scrum\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an There Be Testers in Scrum?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we reinvent the \u201cold stuff\u201d to make it efficient and useful again? &nbsp; Something that Derk-Jan de Grood commented on in his course after Uruguay\u2019s annual testing conference, TestingUY, which was very interesting to me, is that most of today\u2019s young testers (the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,207],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.0.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Next Gen Testers Don\u2019t Know Waterfall | Abstracta<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today\u2019s generation of testers don\u2019t know waterfall as they are already trained in agile. 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