Agile Software Testing

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This course has been created for test managers, quality assurance staff, testers, software developers, project managers and management in order to explain how the Agile project management frameworks (notably SCRUM) deal with testing.

At the end of the course, each of the delegates will design and execute a test plan for a sample application (it can be an actual client application if available)

Where the requirements come from?

• Traditional Business Analysis
• Use Cases, Scenarios and Tests
• Non functional requirements
• Performance
• Conformance
• UML in Business Analysis

Introduction to testing

• Functional Tests
• Regression Test
• UAT Tests
• Unit Tests
• Usability Tests
• Non Functional Tests
• Performance test
• Load test
• Stress test
• Soak test

Test or not to test

• Who is making decisions about what to test?
• The cost of testing irrelevant things
• Calculating ROI (what if something fails analysis)
• The role of Test Manager

The process of Testing

• Testing is a process and a strategy
• Identifying testing needs
• Gathering requirements (use cases, user stories)
• Scoping (choosing and prioritize scenarios)
• Designing tests
• Preparing data
• Preparing environment
• Creating or Recording tests
• Perform the test
• Analysis and reports
• Conclusions and improvement
• When to say "stop"

Product owner and Tests

• The customer representative and test priority
• Prioritizing tests
• Writing effective stories for UAT
• Acceptance criteria
• Group exercise to produce customer requirements and write stories based on the requirements and create tests

The sprint

• Sprint backlog and tests user stories
• Group exercise to plan a sprint

Finishing a sprint

• Scrum review meeting is a test

Is Agile and Scrum for you?

• Review of the Scrum process
• Comparison with other methodologies
• Benefits of pair programming
• Question and Answers Session