In this full day tutorial the attendees will learn:
- what critical values and principles there are in agile testing
- how a tester effectively performs his testing and collaborates in an agile team
- what the customer’s role is and how you can facilitate
- how to effectively collaborate as a team
All topics are presented in an interactive format, with exercises, group discussions and demos of tools. The basis of our vision on agile testing lies in a set of critical values: Collaboration, Feedback, Simplicity, Flexibility. These are supported by 12 principles that guide the testing process. From there we define ‘Testing as a Team’:
- How to involve the whole team in testing
- How to use a Definition of Done as a guide for all testing actitvities
- How to create ‘collective test ownership’
We will discuss the agile tester’s role on the team based on 5 statements. From there we will focus on the everyday test activities. This shall lead us to a profile of the ‘Tester2.0’. Then we take on the customer’s role in agile testing – which we believe is extremely important in agile testing. We will explain agile acceptance testing, and how it can be performed throughout the iteration. We will relate it to requirements, acceptance criteria and multiple stakeholders.
In the section (non-)technical tools for testers we will explain ‘agile test techniques’; we made (formal) test techniques fit for purpose for use in an agile context. Thus we have tools for applying and sharing testing knowledge.
Anko Tijman is principal consultant on Agile testing at Ordina. He has more than 12 years of experience in software testing and holds ISEB Practitioner and TMap certificates. Anko has been involved in agile testing since 2001. He is a ScrumMaster. In November 2008 he published his second book on Agile testing on the Dutch market (title: Testing 2.0 – agile testing in practice). He was speaker at SQS, Eurostar, ATD09 and other agile conferences on this topic. He is considered a thoughtleader on agile testing in the Netherlands.
Eric Jimmink is a test consultant at Ordina, based in The Netherlands. He started his career as a developer, and shifted his focus towards testing around 1998. Eric has been a practitioner and strong advocate of agile development and testing since 2001. Eric advices organisations on how to arrange agile testing. He also coaches teams and individual developers and testers. Since 2008, Eric presented and shared his experiences at four international conferences, including the Agile Testing Days. He co-authored Testen2.0 – de praktijk van agile testen (Testing2.0 – agile testing in practice), a Dutch book about testing in the context of agile development.