Is it the character of all handbook testing jobs?
Brief reply: no, however I believe it is all too widespread.
To me that is a tradition crimson flag. For starters, what does it imply for “the corporate” to provide you three days to do regression testing? Is {that a} supervisor, a venture lead, a scrum grasp, or some increased up individual doing the giving?
Any of these could be an antipattern to me for those who’re meaning to be agile. Rules #5 and #11 from the Agile Manifesto strike me as particularly related:
- Construct tasks round motivated people. Give them the surroundings and help they want, and belief them to get the job accomplished.
- The perfect architectures, necessities, and designs emerge from self-organizing groups.
After all, if the corporate is not even pretending to apply agile, the above may not assist a lot. But when they declare to be, pointing on the agile ideas might assist encourage a change in conduct.
What I might a lot somewhat see is the workforce offering and proudly owning its personal estimates and organizing its personal work. It might additionally assist for the testers to be working extra carefully with the builders to search out methods to check all through the dash, not simply ready till the tip, however I feel that is a secondary difficulty.
In any case, if the corporate/workforce conduct incentivizes shallow testing and avoiding reporting issues, that is a tradition drawback. You could not have the ability to repair it by your self, but when I have been in your footwear I might begin discovering allies. Do you’ve good rapport with the builders in your workforce? Increase your concern in a retro (when you’ve got them) and see if you will get the entire workforce (or at the very least extra than simply you) to purchase in on pushing again on the “three days for regression testing” handed down from on excessive.
There are much more questions I might ask, however I am going to restrict it to at least one: if the event work for a dash runs late, do the builders work time beyond regulation to finish it in any respect prices, or does it simply roll over to the subsequent dash? If the latter, see what occurs for those who do accountable testing in your three days, reporting issues as you go, and simply report on the finish of the dash on what hasn’t but been examined because of the issues you’ve got discovered.