Holistic Testing - Effective Strategies for Agile Teams - Präsenzveranstaltung englisch

Zielgruppen:

 Agile testing beginners & intermediates, any role including testers, developers, managers, analysts

Fachliche Voraussetzungen:

see abstract

Technische Voraussetzungen:

Keine besonderen Anforderungen.

Systematik der Agenturen für Arbeit:

keine Angaben

Inhalte

Are you part of a testing team that is in an agile development process? Are you interested in learning how to become a valued member of an agile team and help deliver ongoing business value? Do you want to understand how to overcome common cultural and logistical hurdles when transitioning to an agile development process?

Our three-day training course is aimed at software delivery teams who are transitioning to agile and want to figure out all the different types of testing they need to do and how to fit them into frequent delivery cycles. Through lecture, discussion and hands-on exercises and simulations, participants learn ways the whole team can collaborate to plan and execute testing activities and build quality into their product.

Content:

Outline Introduction into Agile and How Testing Fits In

Overview of agile terminology
Agile Methods: How is testing different from phased and gated methods

Adapting to Agile - The Whole Team Approach

The Whole Team Approach
Roles and responsibilities, learning to collaborate
Overcoming common obstacles - including cultural issues and mini-waterfalls
Transitioning typical processes - defect tracking, quality models, traceability

Making Test Automation Work

The value of automation
Barriers to automation
Developing an automation strategy
Using the automation pyramid for maximum benefit
A bit on test design, what to automate, what not to automate
Applying agile principles to automation
Evaluating tools and managing the tests

Testing Activities at the Release and Feature Level

Agile approach to test planning - alternatives to large test plans
Levels of precision and dependencies
Slicing stories with thin slices / steel thread approach
How testers contribute to sizing and prioritizing stories
Discussions on test results, metrics and test coverage

Test Approaches for Agile

Guiding development with tests (ATDD)
Using the agile testing quadrants - vocabulary, benefits
Exploratory testing
Testing for quality attributes

Testing Activities During the Iteration and Story Development

Story readiness
Iteration planning - testing tasks
Visibility
Coding & Testing

Simulation

Exercises throughout the class follows a case study and we wrap up working through an iteration simulation so that the students will have an opportunity to experience all we have talked about.

The End Game

Successful deliver
Release retrospective

Key Success Factors

Seven key success factors for agile testing
Confidence building practices