Agile Tester Certification—ICAgile

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Duration: 2 Days

Agile software practices are being employed within many development organizations worldwide. More and more test teams and testers are participating in agile projects or are embedded within agile teams. Many testers struggle to understand the agile development process and their place in it. Learn the fundamentals of agile development, the role of the tester in the agile team, and the agile testing processes. From user story elicitation and grooming through development and testing, this course prepares you to be a valuable member of an agile development team. Explore the business and technology-facing tests agile projects demand and how agile testers help the project succeed. Learn about the techniques of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD). Learn technical and team skills testers need for success in the world of agile development.

  • Discover how testing is implemented in different agile environments
  • Learn about user stories and how to test them
  • Explore key agile testing practices—ATDD, BDD, TDD, and ET
  • Examine technical and team skills you need for success
  • Recognize the main agile testing challenges and how to address them

Practice of Agile Testing Techniques
Explore agile testing processes in an informal and interactive workshop setting. Examples are studied through a series of small group exercises and discussions.

Who Should Attend?
This course is appropriate for both novice and experienced software testers. Developers expected to test within agile teams will find this course extremely useful. Test and development managers also will benefit from this course. A background of basic development and testing processes is helpful.

ICAgile Certification
In order to receive your certification in Agile Testing from the ICAgile you should also complete Fundamentals of Agile Certification. At the completion of both courses you will be awarded your Agile Testing certification by the ICAgile. Students not looking for certification and only taking the Agile Testing course should already have a good knowledge of agile principles and how agile teams function. The ICAgile certification fee is an additional $45 and will be added at registration for your convenience.

Course Outline

Introduction
Validation
Verification
Exploration
Testing as a skill set
Testing to support customers
Testing to support developers
Testing to support stakeholders
Test matrix Agility, grace, and flexibility

Agile Testing Origins
Agile testing history
Agile testing philosophy
Traditional vs. agile testing
Evolving lifecycle models
Evolving test approaches
Evolving test tools
Testing and the agile manifesto
Testing and agile principles
What is quality
What is done
Testing as a team approach
Teams and process
Requirements Unit
Testing System and integration testing

Agile Planning and the User Story
Testing during iteration planning
Agile release train
Testing’s role in planning
Release Planning
Product backlog
Story tests
Constraints
Sizing stories
Backlog grooming
Testing activities in the sprint

Testing in the Heat of the Sprint
Continuous Integration
Test-Driven Development
Automating Unit Tests
Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Behavior Driven Development
Scripting
Exploratory Testing
Non-Functional Testing
Release Testing
User Acceptance Testing
Live Testing

At Sprint's End
Customer demo
Retrospective
Avoiding technical debt

Organizing Agile Testing
Measuring progress
Test documentation
Test environments
Bug management
Agile test automation
Organizational frameworks
Distributed agile teams
Risky agile transitions