Agile Dev Practices West-Agile Testing Practices

Agile Testing Practices
at Agile Dev Practices West 2012

Agile Testing Practices* Skills and Knowledge to Succeed in Agile Projects Sunday, June 10 – Monday, June 11, 2012 • 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. *2-day Training
In Agile Testing Practices training you will: • Learn the fundamentals of agile development models • Discover how testing is different in agile environments • Learn the basis of agile testing—the user story and how to test it • Explore key agile testing practices—ATDD, TDD, and ET • Examine technical and team skills you need for success • Recognize the main agile testing challenges and how to address them			About the Instructor: An experienced test consultant and presenter, Dawn Haynes is a highly regarded trainer of software testers. She blends experience and humor to provide testers of all levels with tools and techniques to help them generate new approaches to common and complex software testing problems. In addition to training, Dawn is particularly passionate about improving the state of performance testing across the industry. She has more than twenty years of experience supporting, administering, developing, and testing software and hardware systems—from small business operations to large corporate enterprises.

Agile software practices are being employed within many development organizations worldwide. More and more test teams and testers are participating in agile projects or are embedded within agile teams. Many testers struggle to understand the agile development process and their place in it. Learn the fundamentals of agile development, the role of the tester in the agile team, and the agile testing processes. From user stories and through development and testing, this course prepares you to be a valuable member of an agile development team. Explore the business and technology-facing tests agile projects demand and how agile testers help the project succeed. Learn about the techniques of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)—the cornerstones of agile testing. Practice the technical and team skills you and your fellow testers need for success in the brave new world of agile development. Practice of Agile Testing Techniques—Hands-On Explore agile testing processes in an informal and interactive workshop setting. Examples are studied through a series of hands-on, small group exercises and discussions. Who Should Attend? This course is appropriate for both novice and experienced software testers. Developers expected to test within agile teams will find this course extremely useful. Test and development managers also will benefit from this course. A background of basic development and testing processes is helpful.

2-Day Course Outline Fundamentals of Agile Development Agile principles The Agile Manifesto Agile development models Scrum Extreme programming (XP) Other agile lifecycle models How agile testing is different The Agile Team Roles within the agile team Self-organizing teams Role swapping The Agile Tester Testing role Testing tasks Automation in testing The Basis of Development and Testing Product backlogs, sprint backlogs The planning meeting User stories Test planning Agile Testing Processes Test-Driven Development (TDD) Unit and component tests Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) ATTD Tools Exploratory testing Non-functional testing Testing through the Sprint The product backlog Story size estimation Sprint iteration planning Testing tasks Development tasks Unit testing Visible progress—burn down charts Bug management Stand up meetings Working with developers Bug isolation Debugging Regression testing Exercises Agile test documentation Test estimation and planning Bug Management Story testing Exploratory test charters

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