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Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 8:30am to 12:00pm

Agile Testing: Team Tactics that Deliver the Goods

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Let’s face it—agile testing is different. Challenges exist in successfully integrating within the teams themselves. Scrummerfall continues to run rampant. The dichotomy of testing vs. quality and balancing both the team’s and your focus still exists. Delivering value is both an imperative and a challenge. In this dynamic workshop, join agile coaches Mary Thorn and Bob Galen as they explore the tools, techniques, and mindset you need to bring to the table to successfully test in agile contexts. Mary and Bob examine risk-based testing, iterative test planning, exploratory testing, agile automation strategies, test metrics, and test artifacts. They explain the Agile Release Train in agile at-scale frameworks and the implications to your testing iterations and planning. Mary and Bob wrap up with a solid overview of user stories, acceptance test-driven development, and behavior-driven development. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all testing techniques. Learn about the adaptive and context-based tools you can add to your agile testing toolbox so your team can deliver the goods.

Bob Galen
Zenergy Technologies

An agile methodologist, practitioner, and coach, Bob Galen ([email protected]) helps guide companies in their adoption of Scrum and other agile methodologies and practices. Bob is director, agile practices at Zenergy Technologies; president of RGCG; and frequent speaker on software development, project management, software testing, and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Coach, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and an active member of the Agile and Scrum Alliances. Bob published The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing in 2015.

 

Mary_Thorn
Ipreo

Chief Storyteller of The Three Pillars of Agile Testing and Quality, Mary Thorn is Director of Agile Practices at Ipreo in Raleigh, NC. Mary has a broad testing background that spans automation, data warehouses, and web-based systems in a wide variety of technologies and testing techniques. During her more than nineteen years of experience in healthcare, HR, financial, and SaaS-based products, Mary has held manager- and contributor-level positions in software development organizations. A strong leader in agile testing methodologies, Mary has direct experience leading teams through agile adoption and beyond.