Agile Testing Strategies and Practices (Course 1815)

Testing in an Agile Environment

General testing theory

• Evaluating the key testing principles
• Differentiating between Agile and traditional practices
• Introducing the theory of Lean Agile testing

Transitioning to Agile software development processes

• Mapping Agile principles and values to testing
• Inspecting Agile testing quadrants
• Benefiting from Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Automating testing for better Agility

Confirming Customer Satisfaction

Acquiring a test basis

• Testing the charter and key features
• Focusing on customer value and user personas
• Writing useful test cases from user stories
• Developing Story Acceptance Criteria

Automating through Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)

• Designing the anatomy of an Agile Test
• Creating a Test Idea Catalogue
• Refining a Definition of Done and Ready
• Anticipating validation criteria through Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)

Preparing for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Specifying by example and scenarios
• Enabling Usability and Exploratory Testing
• Performing Story-mapping for better coverage
• Managing UAT processes

Implementing Developer and Technology Testing

Creating unit tests

• Defining the unit candidates for testing
• Testing First and Asserting First Patterns
• Delineating test data
• Setting up and tearing down a test
• Leveraging tools for better management and insightful coverage analysis

Building proficiency with TDD

• Achieving green-light success
• Identifying good tests
• Dealing with large systems

Employing mocking and stubbing techniques

• Programming fake and spy objects
• Simulating data access
• Identifying interfaces and mocking frameworks
• Testing legacy systems

Validating for FURPS+

• Finding non-functional testing patterns
• Simulating interfaces and conducting performance testing through automation
• Evaluating legacy systems

Refactoring to Optimise Product Design

Applying Regression Testing

• Adopting a catalogue of refactoring patterns
• Identifying refactoring motivations

Committing changes through retesting

• Keeping tests synchronised with code changes
• Adding features and retesting
• Managing and retesting bugs
• Striving for zero-bug tolerance

Orchestrating Continuous Integration (CI)

Delivering software

• Mapping the deployment pipeline of Agile
• Incorporating key principles of Configuration Management (CM) for frequent releases
• Adapting version control and branching strategies to the Agile requirements

Managing the deployment pipelines

• Creating a build process and deployment script
• Controlling code commits and protecting product integrity
• Integrating the test automation in the CI process

Creating a CI ecosystem

• Planning the infrastructure and environments
• Managing components and dependencies
• Setting up continuous delivery

Testers, developers, Agile practitioners, business analysts, project/product managers of software development projects and those interested in being proficient in testing in an Agile environment.