Agile Scrum Master Mock Interview
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What guidance do you give new Scrum teams for testing their development products?
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Scrum principles are somewhat vague about how testing will be completed during a sprint. The responsibility is shared by the team, and determining exactly how testing will be executed is often a process a Scrum Master can add value to. Interviewers who ask this question want to understand how you would work with a new team to define their process for testing.
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Avoid waterfall-style answers that indicate you would counsel new teams to save all testing for the end of their sprints. Teams who select this model often carry incomplete stories over to subsequent sprints and are not as efficient as they could be.
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First, I help teams understand the goal of agile testing and how it differs from Waterfall testing. We discuss the product we are building and the level of effort we expect to include in a Scrum setting. We also discuss testing roles and responsibilities. For example, I help teams understand that quality is a shared responsibility. I lean on professional testers for their expertise and let them know we will look to them for guidance during sprints.
During a sprint, I encourage teams to order their tasks so that several of the features are ready for testing early in the sprint. I find that dropping everything on the testing team right at the end of a sprint typically results in stories being carried over to the next sprint. It stresses testers out and creates large swings in the velocity of the team.
Finally, I encourage teams to look for ways to automate testing. We try to target automating testing for functions that are repeatable or have the potential for a high level of negative business impact if they fail.
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