What Is Agile Testing, Anyway?
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This chapter is from the book
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Agile Values
“Agile” is a buzzword that will probably fall out of use someday and make this book seem obsolete. It’s loaded with different meanings that apply in different circumstances. One way to define “agile development” is to look at the Agile Manifesto (see Figure 1-1).
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Figure 1-1 Agile Manifesto
Using the values from the Manifesto to guide us, we strive to deliver small chunks of business value in extremely short release cycles.
We use the word “agile” in this book in a broad sense. Whether your team is practicing a particular agile method, such as Scrum, XP, Crystal, DSDM, or FDD, to name a few, or just adopting whatever principles and practices make sense for your situation, you should be able to apply the ideas in this book. If you’re delivering value to the business in a timely manner with high-quality software, and your team continually strives to improve, you’ll find useful information here. At the same time, there are particular agile practices we feel are crucial to any team’s success. We’ll talk about these throughout the book.