This hands-on Agile software testing course provides the skills to integrate testing and quality assurance to ensure continuous attention to technical excellence and user satisfaction. You learn how to prove your software delivers value using iterative cycles and ensure code quality and non-regression with automated testing. You also gain experience improving the design of existing code using refactoring techniques and managing changes with a Continuous Integration Framework
This Agile testing strategies and practices training course qualifies for the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Testing (ICP-TST), and prepares attendees for the ISTQB Agile Tester Exam.
- Prior to attending this course, attendees should have attended:
- Work experience in software development and testing
- Any work experience as any of the following: Agile Testers, Agile Developers, Product Owners, Analysts and Test Managers, QA Managers, and those whose role is to ensure that Agile teams deliver high customer satisfaction at an optimized cost.
- Taking Agile Test Automation Training (ICP-ATA Certification), is highly recommended, either before or after this course, to complete the ICAgile certification pathway for Agile Testing.
- While the course qualifies for an ICAgile certificate, the class is not written like an exam prep course. The material is designed for hands-on, Agile training in testing.
- Students will be emailed a short document to review before class. Understanding the content of this pre-course reading is required before class, so more in-class time can be devoted to Testing Practices in an Agile environment.
- ICAgile: To obtain the ICAgile certification, students will need to pass the Learning Tree exam. Learning Tree customer service will process your registration with ICAgile once the exam has been passed., please allow 10 business days.
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- ISTQB: This course prepares students to pass the ISTQB Agile Tester Exam. The cost of the exam is not included in the tuition price. To be eligible to take the Agile Tester Foundation Extension certification exam, candidates must first hold the ISTBQ Foundation Certificate, ISTQB Foundation Level Training. Contact your exam provider for details about taking the exam in your area on the ISTQB website.
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Agile Testing Strategies and Practices Training Delivery Methods
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
- Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
- After-course computing sandbox included
Agile Testing Strategies and Practices Training Course Benefits
Select efficient Agile testing practices for a project to ensure continuous feedbackOptimize iteration and release test plans that result in superior software qualityCreate sustainable software products with test-driven developmentFoster team collaboration for the creation of effective testing assetsIntegrate value-based testing to ensure user satisfaction
Agile Software Testing Course Outline
General testing theory
- Evaluating the key testing principles
- Differentiating between Agile and traditional practices
- Introducing the theory and purpose of 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
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 examples and scenarios
- Enabling Usability and Exploratory Testing
- Performing Story-Mapping for better coverage
- Managing the UAT processes
Building proficiency with TDD
- Defining the unit candidates for testing
- Achieving green-light success
- Identifying good tests
- Dealing with large systems
Validating for FURPS+
- Finding non-functional testing patterns
- Simulating interfaces and conducting performance testing through automation
- Evaluating legacy systems
Test strategy and planning
- Creating a risk-based approach to release planning
- Coordinating day-to-day through a lightweight test plan
- Declaring rules on zero-bug tolerance and defect tracking
- Using metrics to measure success
Successful delivery management
- Implementing continuous integration and deployment
- Setting-up JIT test environments
- Organizing post-release testing
Team mindset and culture
- Working toward a whole team approach to quality
- Designing software with high testability attributes
- Sharing testing responsibilities between developers and testers
- Collaborating on complex and distributed teams projects
