[A Mike Cohn Signature Book 01] • More Agile Testing by Janet Gregory,Lisa Crispin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

About This eBook Title Page Copyright Page Praise for More Agile Testing Dedication Page Contents Foreword Foreword Preface

Who Is This Book For? Acceptance Tests How to Read This Book

Part I: Introduction Part II: Learning for Better Testing Part III: Planning—So You Don’t Forget the Big Picture Part IV: Testing Business Value Part V: Investigative Testing Part VI: Test Automation Part VII: What Is Your Context? Part VIII: Agile Testing in Practice Other Elements

Experiment!

Acknowledgments About the Authors About the Contributors Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1. How Agile Testing Has Evolved

Summary

Chapter 2. The Importance of Organizational Culture

Investing Time The Importance of a Learning Culture Fostering a Learning Culture Transparency and Feedback Loops Educating the Organization Managing Testers Summary

Part II: Learning for Better Testing

Chapter 3. Roles and Competencies

Competencies versus Roles T-Shaped Skill Set Generalizing Specialists Hiring the Right People Onboarding Testers Summary

Chapter 4. Thinking Skills for Testing

Facilitating Solving Problems Giving and Receiving Feedback Learning the Business Domain Coaching and Listening Skills Thinking Differently Organizing Collaborating Summary

Chapter 5. Technical Awareness

Guiding Development with Examples Automation and Coding Skills General Technical Skills Development Environments Test Environments Continuous Integration and Source Code Control Systems Testing Quality Attributes Test Design Techniques Summary

Chapter 6. How to Learn

Learning Styles Learning Resources

Conferences, Courses, Meet-ups, and Collaborating Publications, Podcasts, and Online Communities

Time for Learning Helping Others Learn Summary

Part III: Planning—So You Don’t Forget the Big Picture

Chapter 7. Levels of Precision for Planning

Different Points of View

Product Release Level Feature Level Story Level Task Level

Planning for Regression Testing Visualize What You Are Testing Summary

Chapter 8. Using Models to Help Plan

Agile Testing Quadrants

Planning for Quadrant 1 Testing Planning for Quadrant 2 Testing Planning for Quadrant 3 Testing Planning for Quadrant 4 Testing

Challenging the Quadrants Using Other Influences for Planning Planning for Test Automation Summary

Part IV: Testing Business Value

Chapter 9. Are We Building the Right Thing?

Start with “Why” Tools for Customer Engagement

Impact Mapping Story Mapping The 7 Product Dimensions

More Tools or Techniques for Exploring Early Invest to Build the Right Thing Summary

Chapter 10. The Expanding Tester’s Mindset: Is This My Job?

Whose Job Is This Anyway?

Business Analysis Skills UX Design Skills Documentation Skills

Take the Initiative Summary

Chapter 11. Getting Examples

The Power of Using Examples Guiding Development with Examples

ATDD BDD SBE

Where to Get Examples Benefits of Using Examples Potential Pitfalls of Using Examples

Getting Bogged Down in the Details Lacking Buy-in Too Many Regression Tests Not Enough Is Known Yet

The Mechanics of Using Examples to Guide Coding Summary

Part V: Investigative Testing

Chapter 12. Exploratory Testing

Creating Test Charters Generating Test Charter Ideas

Exploring with Personas Exploring with Tours Other Ideas

Managing Test Charters

Session-Based Test Management Thread-Based Test Management

Exploring in Groups Recording Results for Exploratory Test Sessions Where Exploratory Testing Fits into Agile Testing Summary

Chapter 13. Other Types of Testing

So Many Testing Needs Concurrency Testing Internationalization and Localization Regression Testing Challenges User Acceptance Testing A/B Testing User Experience Testing Summary

Part VI: Test Automation

Chapter 14. Technical Debt in Testing

Make It Visible Work on the Biggest Problem—and Get the Whole Team Involved Summary

Chapter 15. Pyramids of Automation

The Original Pyramid Alternate Forms of the Pyramid The Dangers of Putting Off Test Automation Using the Pyramid to Show Different Dimensions Summary

Chapter 16. Test Automation Design Patterns and Approaches

Involve the Whole Team Starting Off Right Design Principles and Patterns

Testing through the API (at the Service Level) Testing through the UI

Test Maintenance Summary

Chapter 17. Selecting Test Automation Solutions

Solutions for Teams in Transition Meeting New Automation Challenges with the Whole Team Achieving Team Consensus for Automation Solutions How Much Automation Is Enough? Collaborative Solutions for Choosing Tools Scaling Automation to Large Organizations Other Automation Considerations Summary

Part VII: What Is Your Context?

Chapter 18. Agile Testing in the Enterprise

What Do We Mean by “Enterprise”? “Scaling” Agile Testing

Dealing with Organizational Controls

Coordinating Multiple Teams

A System Test Team and Environment

Consistent Tooling

Coordination through CI Version Control Approaches Test Coverage

Managing Dependencies

Working with Third Parties Involving Customers in Large Organizations

Advantages of Reaching Out beyond the Delivery Team Summary

Chapter 19. Agile Testing on Distributed Teams

Why Not Colocate? Common Challenges

Cultural Issues Language Time Zones Dependencies Planning

Strategies for Coping

Integrating Teams Communication and Collaboration Collaborating through Tests

Offshore Testing Tool Ideas for Distributed Teams

Communication Tools Collaboration Tools

Summary

Chapter 20. Agile Testing for Mobile and Embedded Systems

Similar, Yet Different Testing Is Critical Agile Approaches Summary

Chapter 21. Agile Testing in Regulated Environments

The “Lack of Documentation” Myth Agile and Compliance Summary

Chapter 22. Agile Testing for Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence Systems

What Is Unique about Testing BI/DW? Using Agile Principles Data—the Critical Asset Big Data Summary

Chapter 23. Testing and DevOps

A Short Introduction to DevOps DevOps and Quality How Testers Add DevOps Value Summary

Part VIII: Agile Testing in Practice

Chapter 24. Visualize Your Testing

Communicating the Importance of Testing Visualize for Continuous Improvement Visibility into Tests and Test Results Summary

Chapter 25. Putting It All Together

Confidence-Building Practices

Use Examples Exploratory Testing Feature Testing Continual Learning Context Sensitivity Keep It Real

Create a Shared Vision Summary

Appendix A. Page Objects in Practice: Examples

An Example with Selenium 2—WebDriver Using the PageFactory Class

Appendix B. Provocation Starters Glossary References Bibliography

Part I: Introduction

Books Websites, Blogs, Articles, Slide Decks

Part II: Learning for Better Testing

Books Blog Posts and Online Articles Courses, Conferences, Online Communities, Podcasts

Part III: Planning—So You Don’t Forget the Big Picture

Books Articles, Blog Posts, Slide Decks

Part IV: Testing Business Value

Books Articles, Blog Posts, Slide Decks, and Websites

Part V: Investigative Testing

Books Articles, Blog Posts, Slide Decks, and Websites

Part VI: Test Automation

Books Articles, Blog Posts, Courses, Videos, Code Examples

Part VII: What Is Your Context?

Books Articles, Blog Posts, Slide Decks, Websites

Part VIII: Agile Testing in Practice Tools (in Order by Tool Name)

Index

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