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About This Course

Technical excellence and customer satisfaction are both key components of the Agile manifesto. To deliver on such promise, the Agile teams must implement strong testing and technical practices. This Agile testing course will demonstrate how to ensure that quality and customer value are delivered in your projects using Agile testing and methodology.

You Will Learn How To:

Integrate Agile testing and quality assurance to ensure continuous attention to technical excellence and user satisfaction
Prove your software delivers value using iterative cycles
Ensure code quality and non-regression with automated testing
Improve the design of existing code using refactoring techniques
Manage changes with a Continuous Integration Framework

Who Should Attend

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.

Workshop Activities Include:

Automating user acceptance through Behavior Testing
Writing insightful Unit Tests
Practicing TDD for product integrity
Refactoring tests for better test coverage
Designing mock objects for better test automation

Implementing continuous integration and testing

Course Content

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 Catalog
Refining a Definition of Done and Ready
Anticipating validation criteria through Behavior 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 Optimize Product Design

Applying Regression Testing

Adopting a catalog of refactoring patterns
Identifying refactoring motivations

Committing changes through retesting

Keeping tests synchronized 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

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