Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Paperback)

Testing is a key component of agile development. The widespread adoption of agile methods has brought the need for effective testing into the limelight, and agile projects have transformed the role of testers. Much of a tester’s function, however, remains largely misunderstood. What is the true role of a tester? Do agile teams actually need members with QA backgrounds? What does it really mean to be an “agile tester?”

Two of the industry’s most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, have teamed up to bring you the definitive answers to these questions and many others. In Agile Testing, Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester’s role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help. The book chronicles an agile software development iteration from the viewpoint of a tester and explains the seven key success factors
of agile testing.

Readers will come away from this book understanding

• How to get testers engaged in agile development
• Where testers and QA managers fit on an agile team
• What to look for when hiring an agile tester
• How to transition from a traditional cycle to agile development
• How to complete testing activities in short iterations
• How to use tests to successfully guide development
• How to overcome barriers to test automation

This book is a must for agile testers, agile teams, their managers, and their customers.

測試是敏捷開發的重要組成部分。敏捷方法的廣泛應用使得有效測試的需求受到關注，並且敏捷項目已經改變了測試人員的角色。然而，測試人員的許多功能仍然被誤解。測試人員的真正角色是什麼？敏捷團隊是否真的需要具有QA背景的成員？成為一個「敏捷測試人員」到底意味著什麼？

業界最有經驗的敏捷測試實踐者和顧問之一，Lisa Crispin和Janet Gregory攜手為您帶來這些問題和其他問題的明確答案。在《敏捷測試》一書中，Crispin和Gregory定義了敏捷測試，並通過真實敏捷團隊的例子說明了測試人員的角色。他們教您如何使用敏捷測試四象限來確定需要進行哪些測試，誰應該進行測試，以及哪些工具可能有幫助。該書從測試人員的角度記錄了一個敏捷軟件開發迭代，並解釋了敏捷測試的七個關鍵成功因素。

閱讀者將從本書中瞭解到：
- 如何讓測試人員參與敏捷開發
- 測試人員和QA經理在敏捷團隊中的角色
- 招聘敏捷測試人員時要注意什麼
- 如何從傳統開發週期過渡到敏捷開發
- 如何在短迭代中完成測試活動
- 如何使用測試成功地引導開發
- 如何克服測試自動化的障礙

這本書對於敏捷測試人員、敏捷團隊、他們的管理者和客戶來說是必讀之作。