Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin

Agile Testing

A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory

Pearson Education · Print & ebook · December 30, 2008

Te>Two of the industry’s most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, have teamed up to bring you the definitive answers to these questions and many others.

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Who it’s for
A practical look at where testing fits when software teams work in agile iterations.
Themes
Agile software testing, Testing within agile teams, Transition to agile development
Genres
Testing & QA, Software Project Management, Software Development

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Te>Two of the industry’s most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, have teamed up to bring you the definitive answers to these questions and many others. In Agile Testing, Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester’s role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help.

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The book chronicles an agile software development iteration from the viewpoint of a tester and explains the seven key success factors of agile testing. Readers will come away from this book understanding - How to get testers engaged in agile development - Where testers and QA managers fit on an agile team - What to look for when hiring an agile tester - How to transition from a traditional cycle to agile development - How to complete testing activities in short iterations - How to use tests to successfully guide development - How to overcome barriers to test automation This book is a must for agile testers, agile teams, their managers, and their customers. The eBook edition of Agile Testing also is available as part of a two-eBook collection, The Agile Testing Collection (9780134190624).

Testing in Motion

A practical look at where testing fits when software teams work in agile iterations.

Come here for

  • Clarifying the tester’s role across an agile team
  • A framework for deciding what to test and who should do it

Expect

  • Examples from real agile teams
  • An iteration traced from the tester’s viewpoint

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Testing & QA100%
Software Project Management51%
Software Development25%

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Publisher categories

  • Software Development
  • Testing & QA
Authors
Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory
Publisher
Pearson Education
Published
December 30, 2008
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Agile software testing · Testing within agile teams · Transition to agile development
Reading lane
Software Development