Agile Test Automation—ICAgile
- Discover how to implement test automation as stories are implemented
- Confidently deliver shippable product increments each sprint using automation
- Understand how to collaborate with business analysts, programmers, and customers to integrate automation into your team's workflow
- Work without the need of separate, independent test automation teams
- Explore how complex non-functional testing can be automated in a sprint
- Discover how tools such as mind mappers, recorders, and note takers generate defensible evidence of regulatory compliant testing
Most agile teams deliver potentially shippable software at the end of each iteration (one to four weeks), but some agile teams even ship working software every day. Regression confidence can be achieved with the help of automated tests, which many teams struggle with. This class will teach automation techniques to improve regression testing, story and feature testing, and enhancement of exploratory testing. Test Driven Development techniques, precise test and tool selection, appropriate automation design, and team collaboration can be combined to fully integrate testing into Agile delivery teams and provide the efficiency necessary for project success.
Explore the many ways automation supports agile testing activities. Test automation purpose, theory, and principles are reviewed. We look at how test automation is implemented in diverse organizations. The course presents many types of automation illustrated with example test descriptions, source code samples, and example test scripts.
This course will provide real-world, vendor-neutral examples of Agile Test Automation approaches and tools. Examples of automated tests for Test Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) will be given.
Who Should Attend
This course is for agile team members involved in testing, programming, business analysis, software construction, and deployment. Product owners, managers, and other development professionals will gain important insights into the benefits and trade-offs related to agile test automation. No specific prerequisites are assumed, and any technical concepts will be explained; however, attendees are expected to have some software and agile knowledge or experience.
ICAgile Certification
Successful attendees of our Agile Test Automation—ICAgile course are awarded the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Test Automation (ICP-ATA). Additionally, the certified attendees will be listed on the ICAgile website, indicating their designation. Coveros recommends From Fragile to Agile: Practical Approaches to Adopting Agile and Agile Tester Certification for those seeking the ICP-ATA designation.The ICAgile certification fee is included with your registration for your convenience.
About the ICAgile
The International Consortium for Agile’s goal is to foster thinking and learning around agile methods, skills, and tools. The ICAgile, working with experts and organizations across agile development specialties, has captured specific learning objectives for the different agile development paths and put them on the learning roadmap. For more information visit www.icagile.com.
Static Code Analysis/Metrics
Code metrics
Changing complexity and risk
Security risks
Maintainability risks
Automating Story and Feature Testing
Defining acceptance tests
Cross story testing
Data driven testing
Keyword driven testing
Scripting
Mapping Tests to Automation
Acceptance tests to automate
Unit tests to automate
Regression coverage
ATDD and BDD Testing Frameworks
Fitnesse
Cucumber
UI Testing Frameworks
Capture playback test generalization
Open source frameworks
Commercial frameworks
Automation Support for Integration and System Testing
End-to-end transaction testing
Continuous integration
Data Setup and Tear Down and Data Within Automation
Self contained test models
Data independent models
Mocking
Tools to Support Exploratory Testing
Scripting
Note taking
Mind Mapping
Screen capture
Tools for Performing Non-Functional Testing
Performance testing tools
Stress testing tools
Usability testing tools
Security testing tools
Virtualization
Virtual unit test environments
Virtual business facing test environments
Locale variations
Reset systems to a controlled state
Coveros' Executive Vice President of Training Mike Sowers has more than twenty-five years of practical experience as a global leader of internationally distributed test teams across multiple industries. Mike is a senior leader, skilled in working with both large and small organizations to improve their software development, testing, and delivery approaches. He has worked with companies—including Fidelity Investments, PepsiCo, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, Wells Fargo, ADP, and Lockheed—to improve development approaches, increase software quality, reduce time to market, and decrease costs. With his passion for helping teams deliver software faster, better, and cheaper, Mike has mentored and coached senior software leaders, small teams, and direct contributors worldwide.