Agile Engineering Practices - 3 day

Key Learning Activities

Hands-on activities (60-70%) and discussion on mentioned topics (30-40%). Hands-on activities include writing unit test, code, writing examples and some group creativity activities.

Prerequisites

Laptops/Desktops with required software and internet connection. Software will be provided by facilitator.

Tools

Java/.Net, Cucumber/SpecFlow/Behave, Selenium, Jenkins, GIT, Junit/Nunit/Pytest/ Gtest etc. 

Day 1: Agile Requirements and Acceptance Test Driven Development

Specification by Examples Workshop

• Challenges in Collaboration between Business and Development Team
• How to write better Specification
• Why Examples needed for specification 
• Writing Examples in Gherkin

 ATDD and BDD workshop

• Principles of Acceptance Test Driven Development
• Consequences of ATDD on the Sprint Planning and Sprint Review
• Principles of Behavior Driven Development
• Practicing BDD with Cucumber/Behave/SpecFlow: installation, writing features, testing and reporting
• Role of Product Owner and crew when writing scenarios acceptance

Day 2: Test Driven Development and Agile Design

 Test Driven Development

• Test Driven Development (TDD) approach and its benefits
• Improving the quality and design of the code by TDD
• Different types of tests: unit, integration, functional

 Unit testing with Unit Testing Framework

• Understand the life cycle of a test in the Unit Testing framework
• Respect of the principle of isolation and control of test results
• The mocks or simulate how the code Device code tested
• Use of simulation frameworks

 Organization of test activities

• Methodology of correcting a Bug
• Automate the execution of Unit Test
• Generating reports
• Integration with Build Tool and IDE

 Design Frameworks

• Definition and principles of frameworks
• Emergent Design 
• Principle of scalability and implementation

 Refactoring

• Consequence of technical debt and risk of "breaking" the code
• Where? When? How refactoring?
• 3 stages of refactoring
• Support of TDD and ATDD during refactoring
• Best practices and limitations
• Working with legacy code

 Day 3: Continuous Integration and Agile Testing

 Introduction to Continuous Integration

• Principles, environment and infrastructure
• Branching strategies and patterns for continuous integration.
• Solutions for Continuous Integration: Hudson, Jenkins, Cruise Control, Bamboo, TeamCity, Apache Continuum

 Introduction to Jenkins

• Dashboard and health projects
• Architecture and extension principle
• Installation, configuration and use of Jenkins
• Automated Builds with Jenkins
• Automation Testing with JUnit (TDD) and Cucumber (BDD/ATDD)

 Agile Testing

• Importance of Agile testing
• Ensure better quality product sprint by sprint
• Test Automation Frameworks
• Test quadrants and test pyramids

 Other topics

• Continuous Delivery and Deployment - Why and How? 
• DevOps Introduction
• ALM tools for Development Team such as Azure DevOps or Jira

Development team members including developers, testers, architects, leads and scrum masters.