Testing in an Agile Environment

Basic agile knowledge is recommended so the participants can actively contribute with questions and shared experiences.

The course is aimed at anyone who wants to learn what testing means in an Agile team. All team members will benefit from understanding their contribution and the interaction with testers in the team. In this Course, we will teach you the techniques and methods applied in Agile Testing. You will also understand how to organize tests in Agile projects.

1. Life Cycle and Agile Projects:

• Why are Agile methods adopted?
• Scrum and XP reminder
• User Stories

2. The test in Agile development:

• Differences with the traditional approach
• Presentation of the Agile Quadrant
• The expression of quality criteria in Agile
• Assess quality risks and estimate test effort
• Role and skills of a tester
• Continuous improvement

3. Agile testing methods:

• TDD (Test Driven Development)
• The ATDD model, executable specifications
• BDD (Behavior Driven Development)
• Specification by example
• Automation of tests
• Exploratory testing

4. Continuous integration:

• The different elements of a continuous integration platform
• Implementation of the continuous integration platform
• Code qualimetry