Running Agile

Who hasn’t heard that agile testers are different?

They work upfront, hand in hand with the developers, are information radiator to the business, create automated testing frameworks, do exploratory testing, help getting stories done-done, are change agents etc. Right?

But how do you get there? And where is “there” anyway?

That’s what Lisa Cripsin and Janet Gregory are answering in their newly released book “Agile Testing – A practical guide for testers and agile teams“.

In this book, Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester’s role with examples from real agile teams (collected from over 40 interviews with agile personalities). 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. 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.