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Agile Testing

Course Summary

The Agile Testing course begins with an overview of Agile, Scrum and Sprint. It then dives deeply into Agile Testing techniques and the role of the Agile Tester. The course concludes with an overview of automation tools, Test Driven Development (TDD), mock objects and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD).

This course can be customized to include intensive hands-on sessions in TDD, ATDD and Mocks, to help students round out their testing knowledge and understanding.

Purpose
 Learn about an intensive exploration of Agile Testing roles and techniques.
Audience
 Anyone looking to become an Agile Tester.
Role
Software Developer
Skill Level
Introduction
Style
Workshops
Duration
5 Days
Related Technologies
Selenium | Agile | Scrum | Testing

 

Productivity Objectives
  • Achieve a basic understanding of Agile.
  • Associate the Scrum Fundamentals, Artifacts and Roles.
  • Identify the role of a tester on an Agile team.
  • Discover the Agile Testing Pyramid.
  • Recognize Agile testing tools.
  • Compare TDD, ATDD, and Behavior-driven Development (BDD).

What You'll Learn:

In the Agile Testing training course, you'll learn:
  • Agile Overview
    • The Agile Potential
    • The Agile Manifesto
    • Agile Alone is Not Enough
    • Can Agile fail?
    • THE Best Agile
  • SCRUM Overview (covers roles, artifacts and ceremonies)
    • Stories Making it Manageable
    • Stories
    • Acceptance Criteria - Where and When
    • Why Object-oriented Principles are Critical to Agile
    • Sprint Planning Meeting
    • Just Enough...and no More
    • Controlling Chaos
  • Sprint
    • How to Create a Sense of Urgency
    • The Drive of Your Project
    • The Daily Scrum
    • Chickens and Pigs
    • Life is... Daily!
    • Iterative Development
    • Design
    • Test
    • Code
    • Refactor
    • Sprint Review Meeting
  • Product Owner: Roles and Responsibilities
    • Requirements and the Product Backlog
    • Build a Product Backlog
    • User Roles and Personas
    • Acceptance Criteria
    • Story Workshops
    • Story Aggregation and Decomposition
    • Spikes and Special Stories
  • Agile Tester Roles and Responsibilities
    • Overlapping the Roles
    • Team Building the Testers
    • Understanding the Test Plans
    • Executing the End Game
  • Whole Team Approach
    • Team Commitment to Quality
    • Teams Test
    • Pairing Testers and Developers
  • The Agile Testing Pyramid
    • Agile Testing Quadrants
    • Unit Test
    • Acceptance Test
    • GUI Test
    • Manual Test
  • Overview of Test Automation and Automation Tools
    • JUnit and Testing First (TDD)
    • Continuous Integration
    • Acceptance Testing (ATDD)
    • Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
    • Brief Overview of Tools
    • Cucumber, easyB
    • Selenium
    • Jenkins/Hudson
    • Sonar
    • Exploratory Testing
    • Exploratory vs Scripting
    • Concurrent Design and Execution
    • Motivation for Exploratory Testing
  • Test-driven Development
    • Definitions and Uses of Test-driven Development
    • Principles and Techniques of Test-driven Development
    • Test-Driven Development Benefits
    • Best Practices in Test-driven Development
    • Test-driven Developments Anti-Patterns
  • Mock Objects
    • Mock Objects - why?
    • Test Fakes, Stubs, Doubles
    • Collaborating Objects - Testing the Code in the Middle
    • Suggested Tools to Help
  • Acceptance Test-driven Development (ATDD)
    • Choose Your Story
    • Writing Test(s) for Your Story
    • Consider Automating the Tests
    • Implementing the Functionality
    • The ATTD Micro-cycle
    • To Mock or not to Mock
    • What Can go Wrong
    • Iteration Planning
    • Epic Planning
    • Managing Scope
    • Knowing When You're Done
real world content

Real-World Content

Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
expert practitioners

Expert Practitioners

Industry experts that bring their battle scars into the classroom.
experiential learning

Experiential Learning

More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
tailored outlines

Tailored Outlines

One-size-fits-all doesn't apply to training teams. That's where we come in!
“I appreciated the instructor's technique of writing live code examples rather than using fixed slide decks to present the material.”

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