What Makes Testing Agile

Summary:

The most comprehensive test books on agile development concentrate their efforts on the programmers being the constraint of the project. While this helps the team to develop software, testers on Agile projects just get limited education. This article closes this gap by concentrating on the practices useful for testers on an Agile project based on the practices mentioned in, The Art of Agile Development from James Shore and Shane Warden.

About the author

Markus Gärtner

Markus Gärtner studied computer sciences until 2005. He published his diploma thesis on hand-gesture detection in 2007 as a book. In 2010, he joined it-agile GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) after having been a testing group leader for three years at Orga Systems GmbH. Markus is the co-founder of the European chapter in Weekend Testing, a black-belt instructor in the Miagi-Do school of Software Testing, and contributes to the ATDD-Patterns writing community as well as the Software Craftsmanship movement. Markus regularly presents at agile and testing conferences, as well as dedicating himself to writing about testing, foremost in an agile context.