Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (December 30, 2008) © 2009

  • Lisa Crispin
  • Janet Gregory
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Title overview

Two of the industry's most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, have teamed up to bring you the definitive answers to these questions and many others. In Agile Testing, Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester's role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help. The book chronicles an agile software development iteration from the viewpoint of a tester and explains the seven key success factors of agile testing.

  • Readers will come away from this book understanding
  • How to get testers engaged in agile development
  • Where testers and QA managers fit on an agile team
  • What to look for when hiring an agile tester
  • How to transition from a traditional cycle to agile development
  • How to complete testing activities in short iterations
  • How to use tests to successfully guide development
  • How to overcome barriers to test automation
  • This book is a must for agile testers, agile teams, their managers, and their customers

Table of contents

  • Chapter 1: What Is Agile Testing, Anyway?
  • Chapter 2: Ten Principles for Agile Testers
  • Chapter 3: Cultural Challenges
  • Chapter 4: Team Logistics
  • Chapter 5: Transitioning Typical Processes
  • Chapter 6: The Purpose of Testing
  • Chapter 7: Technology-Facing Tests that Support the Team
  • Chapter 8: Business-Facing Tests that Support the Team
  • Chapter 9: Toolkit for Business-Facing Tests that Support the Team
  • Chapter 10: Business-Facing Tests that Critique the Product
  • Chapter 11: Critiquing the Product Using Technology-Facing Tests
  • Chapter 12: Summary of Testing Quadrants
  • Chapter 13: Why We Want to Automate Tests and What Holds Us Back
  • Chapter 14: An Agile Test Automation Strategy
  • Chapter 15: Tester Activities in Release or Theme Planning
  • Chapter 16: Hit the Ground Running
  • Chapter 17: Iteration Kickoff
  • Chapter 18: Coding and Testing
  • Chapter 19: Wrap Up the Iteration
  • Chapter 20: Successful Delivery
  • Chapter 21: Key Success Factors
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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