Testing in an Agile Environment
Course: TSTAGL
Duration: 3 Days
Level: I
Course Summary
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. Learn the fundamentals of agile development, the role of the tester in the agile team, and how testing fits into agile testing processes. This course prepares you to be a valuable member of an agile development team.
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Topics Covered In This Course
Agile Software Development
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile Manifesto principles
- Defined and empirical processes
- Project constraints in agile
- An agile approach to projects
- Working as one team -Working in short iterations
- Delivering each iteration
- Focusing on business priorities
Introduction to Scrum
- Scrum theory
- Starting Scrum
- Product backlog
- Sprint planning
- Sprint backlog
- Sprint reviews
- Sprint retrospectives
- Daily Scrums
- Scrum roles ? ScrumMaster, product owner, the development team
- Customers and stakeholders
Other Agile Approaches
- History of agile eXtreme Programming (XP)
- Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM Atern)
- Lean Software Development
- Kanban
- Disciplined Agile Delivery
User Stories
- Requirements gathering
- What are user stories?
- Levels of detail
- Story decomposition
- Story elaboration
- Backlog grooming
- Acceptance criteria
- Scenarios, Behavior Driven Development
- Defining done
Planning
- Multiple levels of planning
- Backlog prioritization
- Release planning
- Iteration planning
- Defining test goals and strategies
- Agile testing quadrants
- Testing techniques
Estimating
- Cone of uncertainty
- Agile estimating
- Estimating size with story points
- Estimation scales
- Estimating velocity
- Shared estimates
- Planning Poker
- Affinity Estimation
Testing in Agile
- Iterations
- Iteration duration
- Pair programming
- Test-driven development (TDD)
- Quick attacks
- Exploratory testing
- Risk-based testing
- Refactoring and technical debt
- Continuous integration and regression testing
- Performance testing in an iteration
- Security testing
- Usability and accessibility testing
- Release testing
What You Can Expect
In this course, you will learn how to...
- Understand the need for, and principles of, agile methods.
- Recognize the constituent parts of Scrum.
- Understand the role of a tester in agile software development.
- Take part in iteration planning and make a positive contribution to estimates of size and
- Choose appropriate tests and test approaches in an agile development project.
- Be able to write tests based on user stories.
Who Should Take This Course
Test analysts, test team leaders, test managers, developers or project managers who wish to understand agile software development practices and how testing fits in. Testers about to become involved in testing on agile projects.
Recommended Prerequisites
Participants are expected to be familiar with the fundamentals of software testing.
Training Style
Instructor led with 60% lecture and 40% lab.
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