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Specialized scrums for system and solution integration testing, while functional testing done on demand

Last post 05:43 am June 25, 2024 by Hemant Gaikwad
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Hemant Gaikwad
05:43 am June 25, 2024

Hi Team,

We are currently looking at a unique proposal where there would be 2 specialized scrums for performing system integration testing and solution integration testing in conjunction to the actual development scrums, helping to left shift all the integration testing efforts. These specialized scrums would contribute towards performing continuous integration tests for deliverables from all the different scrums teams (8 total). In order to support this model, there would be no test resource statically deployed in any of the development scrums, but only deployed when there is any testable deliverable. This would mean having a validation resource deployed on demand within any scrum team during the sprint where there are any testable user-stories. This would cover all functional testing needed to accept the story and achieve the Done criteria and leaving no story untested within the sprint, if it is sized well to have the development and testing completed within the sprint boundaries. While the system integration scrum and solution integration scrum teams would pick the deliverables in a continuous fashion and perform the required integration tests. These scrums would operation as Scrum@Scale and to address the communication gap, each individual scrum along with the system integration and solution integration scrum would be part of the Scrum of Scrums and leverage meetings like the Scaled Sprint Planning and Scaled Daily Scrum for effective communication. Do you think this approach would still suffer in terms of communication and if yes, what could be the possible workaround/solutions to address that. Thanks

Regards,

HG

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