Sprint 9: Agile Testing

• M. Cohn “Succeeding with Agile”, chapter 16
• J. Rasmusson “The Agile Samurai”, chapters 12 and 14.

• Agile Testing Resource Guide

Role of the Tester [Crispin 2009] Lisa Crispin. Are Agile Testers Different? slideset from Agile Vancouver 2009.

Role of the Tester [Crispin 2008] Lisa Crispin. An Iteration in the Life of an Agile Tester. slideset from Better Software 2008.

Role of the Tester [Crispin 2008b] Lisa Crispin. Crossing the Chasm: Helping Testers Make an Agile Transition. slideset, 2008.

Role of the Tester [Crispin & Gregory 2010] Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. What’s a Tester without a QA team, Agile Connection community website, 2010

Agile Testing Quadrants [Crispin 2009b] Lisa Crispin. Agile Test Planning with the Agile Testing Quadrants, slideset from ADP Testing Workshop, 2009.

Agile Testing Quadrants [Adzic 2013] Gojko Adzic. Let’s break the Agile Testing Quadrants (blogpost). Oct 2013.

Agile Testing Quadrants [Nisbet 2014] Duncan Nisbet. Dissecting The Testing Quadrants (blogpost). Feb 2014.

Test Automation and Tools [Melnik & Maurer 2007] Grigori Melnik, Frank Maurer. Multiple Perspectives on Executable Acceptance Test-Driven Development. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4536, 2007, pp 245-249

Test Automation and Tools [Stolberg 2009] Stolberg, Sean. Enabling agile testing through continuous integration. Agile Conference, 2009. AGILE’09. IEEE, 2009.

Test Automation and Tools [Collins & de Lucena 2012] Eliane Figueiredo Collins and V. F. de Lucena. Software test automation practices in agile development environment: An industry experience report. Automation of Software Test (AST), 2012 7th International Workshop on. IEEE, 2012.

Test Automation and Tools [Parsons et al. 2014] David Parsons, Teo Susnjak, and Manfred Lange. Influences on regression testing strategies in agile software development environments. Software Quality Journal: 1-23, 2014.

Agile Testing [Crispin & Gregory 2009] Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory. Agile testing: A practical guide for testers and agile teams. Pearson Education, 2009.

Test Automation and Tools [Cucumber] Cucumber (website).

Test Automation and Tools [FitNesse] FitNesse (website).

Based on what you have learnt in this sprint, update your Agile/Lean backlog accordingly. Specifically;

• Revisit the order of the course sprints. Are there any sprints you would like to do sooner or later?
• What can you take with you from this sprint into your own organisation?
• What do you need to learn more about?

Add and move items in your Agile/Lean backlog according to your needs and priorities.

You are done with this sprint when you:

• Have a shallow understanding of agile testing and test-driven development
• Have a shallow understanding of the role of an agile tester
• Have a shallow understanding of the Agile Testing Quadrants, and the types of tests in each quadrant.
• Have an overview of common agile testing tools.

Review Questions

• How are you using Agile testing in your organisation today ?
• In what way would you say that your organisation secure customer deliveries with test ?
• In what way do you use test for system development in your organisation ?