More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

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Features

• Codifies the latest thinking on testing for agile projects and builds upon the feedback received from the authors' previous book
• Readers will come away from this book understanding how to get testers engaged in the agile development process
• Shows where testers and QA managers fit into the equation, and how the development and testing teams can work hand-in-hand on an agile project
• Another addition to the highly successful Mike Cohn Signature Series

Description

Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin pioneered the agile testing discipline with their previous work, Agile Testing. Now, in More Agile Testing, they reflect on all they’ve learned since. They address crucial emerging issues, share evolved agile practices, and cover key issues agile testers have asked to learn more about.

Packed with new examples from real teams, this insightful guide offers detailed information about adapting agile testing for your environment; learning from experience and continually improving your test processes; scaling agile testing across teams; and overcoming the pitfalls of automated testing. You’ll find brand-new coverage of agile testing for the enterprise, distributed teams, mobile/embedded systems, regulated environments, data warehouse/BI systems, and DevOps practices.

You’ll come away understanding

• How to clarify testing activities within the team

• Ways to collaborate with business experts to identify valuable features and deliver the right capabilities

• How to design automated tests for superior reliability and easier maintenance

• How agile team members can improve and expand their testing skills

• How to plan “just enough,” balancing small increments with larger feature sets and the entire system

• How to use testing to identify and mitigate risks associated with your current agile processes and to prevent defects

• How to address challenges within your product or organizational context

• How to perform exploratory testing using “personas” and “tours”

• Exploratory testing approaches that engage the whole team, using test charters with session- and thread-based techniques

• How to bring new agile testers up to speed quickly–without overwhelming them

The eBook edition of More Agile Testing also is available as part of a two-eBook collection, The Agile Testing Collection (9780134190624).

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• Part I: Introduction
• Chapter 1: How Agile Testing Has Evolved
• Chapter 2: The Importance of Organizational Culture
• Part II: Learning for Better Testing
• Chapter 3: Roles and Competencies
• Chapter 4: Thinking Skills for Testing
• Chapter 5: Technical Awareness
• Chapter 6: How to Learn
• Part III: Planning–So You Don’t Forget the Big Picture
• Chapter 7: Levels of Precision for Planning 
• Chapter 8: Using Models to Help Plan
• Part IV: Testing Business Value
• Chapter 9: Are We Building the Right Thing?
• Chapter 10: The Expanding Tester’s Mindset: Is This My Job?
• Chapter 11: Getting Examples
• Part V: Investigative Testing
• Chapter 12: Exploratory Testing
• Chapter 13: Other Types of Testing
• Part VI: Test Automation
• Chapter 14: Technical Debt in Testing
• Chapter 15: Pyramids of Automation
• Chapter 16: Test Automation Design Patterns and Approaches
• Chapter 17: Selecting Test Automation Solutions
• Part VII: What Is Your Context?
• Chapter 18: Agile Testing in the Enterprise
• Chapter 19: Agile Testing on Distributed Teams
• Chapter 20: Agile Testing for Mobile and Embedded Systems
• Chapter 21: Agile Testing in Regulated Environments
• Chapter 22: Agile Testing for Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence Systems
• Chapter 23: Testing and DevOps
• Part VIII: Agile Testing in Practice
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