Holistic Testing

Service Description

This unique and practical course was developed by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory based on their popular books, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole team, and Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction. Participants learn ways the whole delivery team can collaborate to plan and execute the many different testing activities needed to build quality into their product. Through lecture, discussion and hands-on exercises adapted for remote facilitation, the course explains essential principles and practices, including: • How testing fits into the short iterations and frequent deliveries in an agile manner, including adoption of continuous delivery • Contributions that testers can make to become valued agile team members, and help with adopting approaches such as DevOps • Common cultural and logistical obstacles in transitioning to an agile development process • Values and principles that help team members adopt an agile testing mindset • How the whole team contributes to the success of testing practices, such as acceptance-test driven development (ATDD), test automation, and exploratory testing The course is filled with real-life examples of how teams collaborate to deliver high value, high-quality software. Participants are given the opportunity to collaborate to take a feature, slice it into stories, create acceptance tests and practice testing activities necessary to build a high-quality product. Participants leave with practical skills and techniques that they can start using right away. The course is ideal for testers, developers, iteration facilitators, team leads, managers, anyone on who wants to learn what testing means on an agile team. Everyone will benefit from understanding their contribution and the interaction with testers on the team. Basic agile knowledge is recommended so the participants can actively contribute with questions and shared experiences.