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 CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Dealing With Defects: The Agile Way
Author(s): Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc.
Summary: In agile development, software defects are everyone's responsibility. One tenet of agile is that defects should be fixed "as soon as possible" rather than documented as an inventory of "stuff" that doesn't work yet. Janet Gregory examines the sometimes vexing question agile teams have for dealing with a defect—should we "fix it now and forget it," "fix it now and track it," or "record and track it?" She explores why, regardless of which choice is made, you should write a test case to verify the fix is correct. Find out how those test cases can become a valuable record about defect history. Learn ways to track defects in a simple system to help the agile team discover process problems and potential improvement opportunities. By dealing with defects effectively, your team will be able to shift its focus from defect repair toward defect prevention.
Conference: Agile Development Practices
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Seven Key Factors for Agile Testing Success
Author(s): Lisa Crispin, Ultimate Software
Summary: Agile development presents unique challenges for testers and test teams. Working in short iterations, often with limited written requirements, agile development teams can leave traditional testers behind. Common testing-related activities—such as user acceptance testing, testing inter-product relationships, and installation testing—require different approaches to work within agile projects. Lisa Crispin presents seven key factors for testing success within agile projects – using a whole team approach, adopting an agile mindset, automating regression testing, collaborating with customers, providing and obtaining feedback, looking at the big picture, and building a foundation of core agile practices. Learn how to overcome cultural and organizational obstacles to successful testing and discover the critical factors for delivering maximum value to your business.
Conference: Agile Development Practices
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Testing Without Constraints: Service Virtualization
Author(s): Rajeev Gupta, iTKO Lisa
Summary: While today's distributed software architectures such as SOA, Software-as-a-Service, and Cloud Computing offer organizations increased agility and new reuse opportunities, they also increase the risk of costly software problems due to constant change and increasing complexity. System testing is constrained by dependency on critical services, systems, and data that may be unavailable or too costly to use. A new approach, Service Virtualization (SV), allows test teams to create “virtual worlds” that emulate software behavior and model functional, data, and performance characteristics in the target production environment. Testers can capture, model, and configure target environments while decreasing their need to access production systems and costly "pay as you go" services. With Service Virtualization, testing teams become decoupled from constraints in the lifecycle, with drastically reduced support, data maintenance, and access costs.
Conference: STARWEST 2009
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Seven Factors for Agile Testing Success
Author(s): Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc.
Summary: What do testers need to do differently to be successful on an agile project? How can agile development teams employ testers’ skills and experience for maximum value to the project? Janet Gregory describes the seven key factors she has discovered for testers to succeed on agile teams. She explains the whole-team approach of agile development that enables testers to do their job more effectively. Then, Janet explores the “agile testing mindset” that contributes to a tester’s success. She describes the different kind of information that testers on an agile team need to obtain, create, and provide for the team and product owner. Learn the role that test automation plays in the fast-paced development within agile projects, including regression and acceptance tests. By adhering to core agile practices while keeping the bigger picture in mind, testers add significant value to and help ensure the success of agile projects.
Conference: STARWEST 2009
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Seven Key Factors for Agile Testing Success
Author(s): Lisa Crispin, ePlan Services, Inc.
Summary: Agile development approaches present unique challenges for testers and test teams. Working in short iterations, often with limited written requirements, agile development teams can leave traditional testers behind. Common testing-related activities, such as user acceptance testing, testing inter-product relationships, and installation testing, need different approaches to fit into agile projects. Lisa Crispin explains seven key factors for testing success within agile projects that you can also apply to more traditional methodologies. Using a whole team approach and adopting an agile testing mindset are among the important components of a successful agile testing strategy. Learn how to overcome cultural and organizational obstacles and barriers to success in areas such as test automation. Discover the seven critical factors that provide a foundation for building your team's focus on quality and that deliver maximum value to your business.
Conference: STAREAST 2009
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Crossing the Chasm: Agile Transitions for Test Teams
Author(s): Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc.
Summary: Even if agile development has "crossed the chasm" and is becoming a mainstream set of practices, testers are often left behind when development teams "go agile." Developers learn test-driven development, continuous integration, refactoring, pair programming, and more. Project managers receive ScrumMaster training. What do testers get? Too often, just a wave to follow as the rest of the organization makes the move. Testers need some answers to their questions: If developers are writing tests, what am I supposed to do? How can I possibly keep up with two-week iterations and constantly changing requirements? Janet Gregory describes the skills that are vital for agile testers and discusses how testers can engage with agile development teams. Agile testers must change their mindset from, "How can I break this software?" to "How can I help the team deliver really great software?" Janet explains how this shift in thinking helps you make the transition to agile testing, how test managers can integrate their teams into agile projects, and how agile ultimately improves product quality. Through her insight and experience, Janet helps you build your bridges from traditional to agile testing.
Conference: STAREAST 2009
 ARTICLE: White Paper: Graphical UI Testing Checklist
Author(s): Atul Waghmare
Summary: A GUI as we now know is a computer-interface that uses images, typed text, and icons on the screen that replace many of the functions of the keyboard. This paper explains different validations need to be used while testing GUI.
Date Posted: May 29, 2009 |
MAGAZINE ARCHIVE: Time to Let Go of Obsolete Jobs
Author(s): Lee Copeland
Summary: Town crier, elevator operator, gas lamp lighter, carbon paper distributor, telegraph operator—you probably haven't seen many help wanted ads for these occupations lately. Why? Because these occupations are gone—obsolete, unnecessary, outdated. We just don't need them anymore. When new paradigms are created, new jobs are often created with them. And sometimes, existing jobs are no longer relevant.
Type of Article: Dept: Technically Speaking
Better Software Issue: May/June 2009| Date Posted: May 11, 2009 |
BOOK: Agile Testing
Author: Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
Pages: 576 Published: 2009
Description: Agile methods are revolutionizing software development, and one of the key principles of agile development is that developers write tests. But if that's the case, what’s the r...More
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Are Agile Testers Different?
Author(s): Lisa Crispin, ePlan Services, Inc.
Summary: On an agile team everyone tests, blurring the lines between the roles of professional developers and testers. What's so special about becoming an agile test professional? Do you need different skills than testers on traditional projects? What guides you in your daily activities? Lisa Crispin presents her "Top Ten" list of principles that define an agile tester. She explains that when it comes to agile testers, skills are important but attitude is everything. Learn how agile testers acquire the results-oriented, customer-focused, collaborative, and creative mindset that makes them successful in an agile development environment. Agile testers apply different values and principles—feedback, communication, simplicity, continuous improvement, and responsiveness—to add value in a unique way. If you're a tester looking for your place in the agile world or a manager looking for agile testers, Lisa can help.
Conference: STARWEST 2008
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Feature: Measurement & Analysis
QA Consciousness Raising
Selling the value of testing and quality assurance
By Lisa Crispin
  
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Change is hard, but leading your managers and co-workers toward higher quality needn't be dull and dreary. In this article, author Lisa Crispin explains several techniques you can use to take your organization to the next level, including gauging your visibility and recruiting a quality champion.
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