Join Fadi Stephan and the Washington DC Scrum User Group (DCSUG) for a talk on Agile Testing. Fadi tackles testing on an Agile team, what kind of tests to execute, what to automate and what not to automate, the different test responsibilities, and when to run which tests. https://www.meetup.com/DC-Scrum/events/262129860/
Join us for the September 28-29 Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training class in Washington DC. This course is a 2 day immersive training and learning experience that covers the Agile values and Agile principles, the fundamentals of the Product Owner role, developing a vision, roadmap and release plan, managing product backlogs and the keys to…
Join us for the September 14-15 Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training class in Washington DC. This course is a 2 day immersive training and learning experience that covers Agile values and Agile principles, the fundamentals of Scrum, the intricacies of the Scrum framework, Scrum roles and responsibilities, and the keys to a successful Scrum implementation. Upon completion…
Join the fourth annual Women in Agile conference as we put new ideas in motion! We’re investing and engaging in all our Agile communities. We’re welcoming our allies and seeking to be better allies to those around us. We energize each other! Join us in DC on August 4, 2019! Find out more here.
Agile Coach Camp Worldwide is the first designated Camp for agile coaches to connect, share, learn, and network with others from around the Globe! Thanks to the generosity of the Agile Alliance, there will now be an Agile Coach Camp before every Agile20XX conference starting in 2019. These large gatherings already bring many coaches from around…
The European Global Scrum Gathering is being held in Vienna, Austria this year. This is the Scrum Alliance's main European conference with over 1000 attendees that gather from around the word to learn, share and collaborate on all things Agile and Scrum. Join us in Austria on October 28th to October 30. Find out more here.
At the 2019 Global Scrum Gathering in Austin, TX, I presented on Agile Testing. Below is the abstract of the talk, along with links to the Agile Testing blog series and the presentation slides. 2019 Austin Global Scrum Gathering Abstract: Many teams struggle with fitting in testing activities inside of a Sprint. They end up doing…
Here are the top 8 things to consider when developing your Agile testing strategy to enable you to continuously deliver a quality working Product Increment at the end of every Sprint 1. Testing in not a phase Testing is not a phase that happens at the end of a project and it’s not a phase that…
Ensure that Exploratory testing is part of your testing suite. Most manual testing should be spent on Usability and Exploratory Testing. These types of tests are non-scripted and thus cannot be automated. These tests need human interaction, observation, analysis, and intuition. With usability testing, a human needs to verify that the design, layout, and user interface…
When you are coming up with a testing strategy for green field applications, you should follow the testing triangle or pyramid. For legacy application, a different strategy is needed. Writing tons and tons of unit tests when working with a very large application with zero tests is very costly and results in very little benefits. A…
Acceptance test driven development takes the TDD practice and applies it to acceptance tests. On day 1 of the Sprint, before we begin coding a particular user story, we start by reviewing the acceptance criteria and thinking about how we will verify via tests that this story is complete. Typically, a single acceptance criteria might map…
Requirements and tests are just two sides of the same coin. You can’t have a user story or requirement without an acceptance criteria (test). These two meld into executable specification. Gherkin Using gherkin syntax (given, when, then) we can represent requirements using examples and create specifications by example. As a potential customer, I want to collect…
DevOpsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area. Most devopsdays events feature a combination of curated talks and self organized content. Topics often include automation, testing, security, and organizational culture. Join us for…
In many situations, there are a lot of business rules that need to be tested. Say we want to test that the correct discounts get applied based on a certain number of items in a shopping cart. To test these rules, most testers will go through the UI and hop through several steps to get to…
