Agile Testing Techniques

Transition sound traditional test practices into an Agile development environment. Just enough, just in time, with responsive high level quality.

This 3-day course will introduce you to high speed methods, and explore their use so that you can immediately step from the classroom into the office with new found confidence. We will discuss transition, roles, methods and technologies that can be relied upon to deliver speed and optimum flexibility. You will start to feel a new sense of flexibility, confidence and enthusiasm (maybe for the first time in your entire development career).

Building on traditional risk based test practice we are now being challenged by incremental delivery. To address, and not inhibit, we examine the concept of pair testing. Strengthening relationships, in a team setting, helps to build a sense of common purpose. Working in parallel eliminates hand-offs, late stage testing, and an opportunity for incremental confirmed component delivery. This program builds on what we know, and adapts to what we have… Agile delivery. Traditional methods become a barrier under new development methods and place further pressure on the test team to feel a sense of value compromise. The new found, high speed test delivery, opens new areas of opportunity to build strength in product quality, process improvement and test confidence.

Despite changes in methods and approaches we continually slide back into old test habits. Often we leave methods behind, rather than transition from them. We throw everything away and do a wholesale replacement without putting to bed the reasons for change. Most testing works but only within the development context that it was framed. The program will reflect tradition against Agile testing, what changes we must make and the role that we will play. Testing is not a service but an integrated part of the development team.
 
Learn how to:

• Understand the key differences between traditional and Agile Testing practices
• Develop a transition plan to move from traditional test practices to Agile testing
• Construct a Lean Testing Framework to expedite Agile delivery
• Operate in a time constrained development cycle without losing testable value
• Develop Iteration 0 Test Plans that guide test design development
• Use High Speed test methods to supplement and support story-based testing practices (Exploratory, Pairwise, Pareto techniques)
• Capitalize on Test Development through Use & Reuse Management
• Integrate Team Testing into Agile Projects
• Build Lean Test Artifacts for Regression Testware
• Engage stakeholders in quality trade-off decision-making
• Coach story card contributors in test case construction
• Gain exposure to automation support opportunities

Who Should Attend:

• Software Test and QA Professionals
• Software Test and QA Managers
• Quality Analysts and Engineers

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