{"id":11252,"date":"2019-05-29T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/?p=11252"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:23:21","slug":"testinguy-2019-recap-bigger-better-and-all-about-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/testinguy-2019-recap-bigger-better-and-all-about-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"TestingUY 2019 Recap: Bigger, Better, and All About Agile"},"content":{"rendered":"

What we took away from the Uruguayan testing conference we proudly sponsor each year<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Image Courtesy TestingUY<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This\u00a0May, Montevideo hosted what felt like a party for testing in Latin America. In this sixth edition of TestingUy<\/a>, the two day event gathered some 600 people from many parts of Latin America (We met people from Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Costa Rica, and also from France, Canada, the United States and Croatia, wow!). <\/span><\/p>\n

Their first time ever in Uruguay, we were visited by testing thought leaders, Melissa Eaden<\/a> and Janet Gregory<\/a> who led tutorials and sessions as well as Lisa Crispin<\/a> who participated remotely, even giving the closing keynote (so her leg could heal!). Melissa Eaden is the \u201cEditorBoss\u201d at Ministry of Testing (with whom TestingUY has partnered to run testing meetups in Uruguay<\/a>) as well as a consultant, writer, and tester at Unity. Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin are who we called at the conference, \u201cLas Madres del Agile Testing\u201d because they wrote together two of the most foundational books<\/a> on Agile testing. <\/span><\/p>\n

You might be thinking… Why Uruguay? Well, although we are a country of just 3 million people and 12 million cows, we excel in the areas of enjoying a high quality of life (compared to our neighbors), the art of grilling meat, and… yes, testing! Read more about our\u00a0growing tech hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a recap where I personally reflect on\u00a0some of the ideas that were shared\u00a0in\u00a0a few of the talks at TestingUY.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Opening Keynote: Agile Testing in Context –\u00a0 Janet Gregory<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The event\u00a0kicked off with a talk by Janet Gregory which wasn’t centered<\/span>\u00a0on agility in itself, but on the impact of company culture and human interactions on applying agile methodologies in different contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Something to note that Janet mentioned was that it\u2019s important to know where the problem is; that is, if the problem is with the testing team, or if it comes from another area. For example, when you want to do many things concurrently, there will be many projects, but few testers. So, several projects will be assigned to each tester, which is counterproductive. Not knowing how to assign priorities is an organizational problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also other problems that testing teams confront such as the integration of the system that they are testing with many other systems, too many dependencies, separate testing teams, making assumptions or not knowing who to ask about certain things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Janet highlighted the importance and value of planning and mentioned two tools for solving problems when there are several testing teams:<\/span><\/p>\n