Agile QA & TDD

Often, agile teams will roadblock at QA.  This is rarely a QA personnel issue, but rather the approach and choreography between Development and QA.
In this hands-on three-day workshop we will explore an agile-friendly approach to streamlining this most fundamental of software development processes, with the goal of removing that bottleneck and increasing the quality and outcomes of your teams. Topics will include agile requirements and testing theory, implementable practices, tooling examples, environment setup, and advice to make a system more testable.
The workshop simulates reality by dividing participants in to QA and Programmers and providing them with a problem to solve. Topics are then iteratively introduced as the teams work through the product backlog together.
Note: This workshop is designed for complete teams and is therefore not available as a public offering. Contact us about scheduling this class for your team.
Audience
QA/Test professionals, Developers, Managers with practitioner-level familiarity with agile and Scrum
Participants will learn to:
Level-set on core Scrum concepts such as Product Backlog, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria
Describe the role of agile QA, contrasting with the traditional role
Discuss the types of testing, when they should be performed, and the Definition of Done
Agile-friendly test planning, including sample artifacts for manual-only testing
Establish fundamental development and test processes, including branching strategy and code promotion
Establish the combined Dev + QA environment
Execute and fail a series of tests
Write code to make tests pass
Compare and contrast TDD and BDD styles
Establish the defect control process
Implement Test Doubles (Dummies, Stubs, Fakes, and Mocks)
Implement smoke tests
Introduce integration testing
Demonstrate automation at the Acceptance Test level
Implement continuous integration
Check-in, build, run partially passing tests
Refactor
Regression Test
Work with and test Legacy code
Make code more testable
 
Organized by: Improving - Ohio
The Best Way To Learn Is Through Experience.
Improving believes that the best way to learn is through the application of knowledge in real-world environments. We specialize in creating situated, hands-on learning solutions for our customers in the areas of agile processes, object-oriented design, and test-driven development.