Agile Testing Essentials LiveLessons (Video Training)
- By Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory
- Published May 5, 2017 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the LiveLessons series.
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Description
- Copyright 2017
- Edition: 1st
- Online Video
- ISBN-10: 0-13-468326-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-468326-3
4+ Hours of Video Instruction
Agile Testing Essentials LiveLessons is based on fundamental concepts from Lisa Crispin’s and Janet Gregory’s two best-selling books, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team. By the end of the course, participants will understand how testing fits into short and frequent delivery cycles and how each team member can contribute to the success of a quality product.
Every team member, including testers, programmers, team facilitators, business analysts, designers, product owners and product managers, will find value in this course.
Goal: To introduce basic understanding of how agile teams build quality into their product, with the whole team engaged in testing activities throughout the delivery cycle. Testing is critical to the successful delivery of a quality product—not a phase to be executed right before delivery.
Approach: Each topic starts with a presentation of the material, assisted with slides and/or a live discussion between Janet and Lisa. Examples are used throughout to help explain the topic, and there is an opportunity for participants to practice different techniques through exercises. After each exercise, Janet and Lisa discuss how they approach the exercise and guide participants in connecting what they’ve learned with their own teams and projects.
Reviews:
"This course is not only useful for people identifying as testers, especially as those most probably would not read the agile testing books. I warmly recommend it to everyone working in agile environments, as agile testing is in its core a whole team topic and everybody should know about its essentials."
--Elisabeth "Lisi" Hocke, Agile Tester
"As a test manager who has a number of staff who are either new to agile or testing, this video series is essential for helping such staff to learn the basics, especially if supported with mentoring."
--Mike Talks, Test Manager
Related Content:
Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory are co-authors of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley, 2014) and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), as well as authors and contributors to other software development books. Their book website is www.agiletester.ca.
Skill Level
- Beginner to Intermediate
Learn How To
- Grow your agile testing mindset
- Understand the Whole Team approach to building in quality
- Use models such as the Agile Testing Quadrants to ensure all necessary testing activities are covered
- Guide development with business-facing examples and tests
- Explore your software product to discover defects and missing features
- Use leading practices to succeed with automation
- Utilize key factors for agile testing success and confidence-building practices
Who Should Take This Course
Any team member involved in delivery of a product using agile methods, including: testers, programmers, team facilitators, business analysts, designers, test managers, product owners, and product managers.
Course Requirements
- Basic Agile knowledge
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Sample Content
Table of Contents
Introduction
Lesson 1: Introduction to the Whole Team Approach
Learning objectives
1.1 Shift your mindset
1.2 Build your skill set
1.3 Engage the whole team
1.4 Focus on quality, not speed
1.5 Get some real answers to your questions
1.5.1 Stop and think
1.5.2 Let’s talk: Whole team approach
Lesson 2: Test Planning in Agile Contexts
Learning objectives
2.1 Understand your context
2.1.1 Stop and think
2.1.2 Let’s talk: Regulatory context
2.2 Use models to help you plan
2.2.1 Stop and think
2.2.2 Let’s talk: Agile testing quadrants
2.3 Learn what tests can help guide development to build the right thing
2.3.1 Stop and think
2.3.2 Let’s talk: Tests that guide development
2.4 Learn what tests critique the product for fast feedback and realistic use
2.4.1 Stop and think
2.4.2 Let’s talk: Regression tests
2.5 Understand how to plan for quality attributes
2.5.1 Stop and think
2.5.2 Let’s talk: Performance quality attribute
2.6 Prepare for the end game
2.6.1 Stop and think
2.6.2 Let’s talk: The end game
Lesson 3: Shared Understanding through Early Testing
Learning objectives
3.1 Apply your testing mindset to the business problem
3.1.1 Stop and think
3.1.2 Let’s talk: Question the business problem
3.2 Learn how to use conversations to build shared understanding
3.2.1 Stop and think
3.2.2 Let’s talk: User scenarios
3.3 Explore the power of guiding development with executable tests
3.3.1 Stop and think
3.3.2 Let’s talk: Concrete examples
3.4 Learn how to write high-level acceptance tests
3.4.1 Stop and think
3.4.2 Let’s talk: Acceptance tests
Summary
Lesson 4: Automation in Agile
Learning objectives
4.1 Articulate the benefits of automation
4.1.1 Stop and think
4.1.2 Let’s talk: Automation obstacles
4.2 Change your automation approach for agile projects
4.2.1 Stop and think
4.2.2 Let’s talk: Who can help automate?
4.3 Create an automation strategy using the automation test pyramid
4.3.1 Stop and think
4.3.2 Let’s talk: Test automation pyramid
4.4 Develop a path to success
4.4.1 Stop and think
4.4.2 Let’s talk: Automation approach
4.5 Guide your automation with principles and practices
4.5.1 Stop and think
4.5.2 Let’s talk: Automation practices
4.6 Find your quick wins
4.6.1 Stop and think
4.6.2 Let’s talk: Small experiments
Lesson 5: Agile Exploration
Learning objectives
5.1 Define exploratory testing
5.2 Use personas to change perspectives
5.2.1 Stop and think
5.2.2 Let’s talk: Personas
5.3 Learn different techniques to explore
5.3.1 Stop and think
5.3.2 Let’s talk: Techniques for exploring
5.4 Focus your exploring
5.4.1 Stop and think
5.4.2 Let’s talk: Charters
Summary
Lesson 6: Ingredients for Success
Learning objectives
6.1 Understand the 7 success factors of agile testing
6.1.1 Stop and think
6.1.2 Let’s talk: Key success factors
6.2 Deliver with confidence using core agile testing practices
6.2.1 Stop and think
6.2.2 Let’s talk: Confidence building practices
Summary