Testing in an Agile Environment

Course:   TSTAGL
Duration:   3 Days
Level:   I
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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.

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...

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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