Agile Testing In Practice

Product Description

Overview

While agile has provided the solutions for many software development problems, it is not a silver bullet & has still to overcome issues that more traditional project development lifecycles handle. Testing is an important part of how agile succeeds, but as agile is a big departure from normal development, how does it affect testing & the test process?

The role of the tester in agile is to bring professional expertise in test & quality to the team. Many agile implementations however have struggled to implement effective approaches to achieving the productivity enhancements with the required level of quality. This is because of issues such as

• Implementing SCRUM as an effective work management approach but without designing/adopting appropriate development & test practices within the incremental framework
• Partial implementation of agile methods & agile mindset sometimes resulting in negative quality implications
• Implementing hybrid methods combining traditional dev/test practices with agile practices but with a resulting strategy that does not deliver on quality

By attending this course you will:

• Gain an insight in the different agile methodologies & how they differ from traditional methodologies
• Detailed understanding of issues to overcome to ensure effective testing on agile projects
  - test strategy & planning, test design, test execution & monitoring/reporting
• Clarify how independent testers can best contribute to agile projects