Agile Testing
How to Succeed in an Extreme Testing Environment

This book provides practical guidance for professionals, practitioners, and researchers faced with creating and rolling out their own agile testing processes.

John Watkins (Author)

9780521726870, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 July 2009

334 pages, 33 b/w illus. 4 tables
25.5 x 17.7 x 2 cm, 0.58 kg

"The author has provided very helpful and hands-on materials to individuals and managers who are moving from the waterfall (phased) method of software testing. I found the style very reader-friendly, with “suggestions on how to read this book,” and the ability to jump to the section that will be most helpful to the reader. This volume will be a valuable addition to your library."
Brad Reid, reviews.com

In an IT world in which there are differently sized projects, with different applications, differently skilled practitioners, and on-site, off-site, and off-shored development teams, it is impossible for there to be a one-size-fits-all agile development and testing approach. This book provides practical guidance for professionals, practitioners, and researchers faced with creating and rolling out their own agile testing processes. In addition to descriptions of the prominent agile methods, the book provides twenty real-world case studies of practitioners using agile methods and draws upon their experiences to propose your own agile method; whether yours is a small, medium, large, off-site, or even off-shore project, this book provides personalized guidance on the agile best practices from which to choose to create your own effective and efficient agile method.

1. Introduction
Part I. Review of Old School and Agile Approaches: 2. Old school development and testing
3. Agile development and testing
Part II. Everyone Is Different
Real World Case Studies: 4. From waterfalls to evolutionary development and test Tom Gilb and Trond Johansen
5. How to test a system that is never finished Nick Sewell
6. Implementing an agile testing approach Graham Thomas
7. Agile testing in a remote or virtual desktop environment Michael G. Norman
8. Testing a derivatives trading system in an uncooperative environment Nick Denning
9. A mixed approach to system development and testing Geoff Thompson
10. Agile migration and testing of a large scale financial system Howard Knowles
11. Agile testing with mock objects Colin Cassidy
12. Agile testing Martin Phillips
13. The emperor's new test plan Steve Allot
14. The power of continuous integration builds and agile development James Wilson
15. The payoffs and perils of off-shored agile projects Pete Kingston
16. The basic rules of quality and management still apply to agile Richard Warden
17. Test-infecting a development team David Evans
18. Agile success through test automation Jon Tilt
19. Talking, saying and listening Isabel Evans
20. Very small scale agile development and testing of a wiki Dass Chana
21. Agile special tactics Greg Hodgkinson
22. The agile test driven methodology experiment Lucjan Stapp
23. When is a scrum, not a scrum? Peter May
Part III. Agile My Way: 24. Analysis of the case studies
25. My agile process.

Subject Areas: Agile programming [UMF]