Next week I'm doing some Agile training for a very well known mobile phone manufacturer. I'm really looking forward to it. The training is aimed at Testers who need to work with Agile teams but (thankfully) the audience is full of managers, developers, and analysts, as well as testers. I'm pleased about that because I always find it much, much easier to explain agile to a cross-skilled group - the group just tends to work better.
One of the questions I will ask in the training is this: "Imagine you are a tester in a major white goods manufacturer's product development department. The team has just produced their first real fridge. Your job is to test it. The spec says that the internal light must turn off when the door is closed. How would you test that requirement?"
The answer, I find, is very illuminating ...
What would you do?
