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    Agile Testing - a Summary

Jay Conne Consulting  

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A much broader concept than you may think...

Essential Questions:

  • What do you really know about your software?

  • How do you know it?

The Challenges:

  • If you don't design and develop for validation, there is no way to really know!

  • If you don't design and develop for maintainability, there's no way to have it track your changing needs!

  • Changes require validation of what it does NOW!

Essential disciplines:

    If we don't have the right foundation for knowing what to test, why bother?
    Only then can testing deliver truly useful knowledge.
    Therefore, testing-specific disciplines are at the end of this list.
  • Lean Software Development

    - Disciplines for making a business effective
    and aligning software requirements with the business.
  • Scrum and Kanban

    - Disciplines for rapidly discovering and 'building the right thing'.
    - Focusing cross-functional teams on delivering and validating the true value.
    - Making and keeping commitments to the business.
    - Measuring and rewarding teams as a unit.
    - Making management highly responsive to team needs.
  • Extreme Programming (XP)

    - Disciplines for 'building things right'.
    - Discovering and building effective software architecture.
    - Continuously validating correctness.
    - Supporting team-ownership of the code - shared knowledge.

  • Object Oriented Design (OOD)
    Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
    Design By Contract (DBC)

    - Disciplines for effective modularization and interfacing of modules.
    - Essential disciplines for maintainability and validation.
  • Test Driven Design (TDD)
    Test Driven Development (TDD)
    Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
    Test-First Design(TFD)
    Test-First Development (TFD)

    - Disciplines for creating executable requirements and automated validation at all levels of integration from unit tests to acceptance tests.
    - Test-First to constrain development effort to just what the project sponsors want to pay for (both business and technical).
  • Framework for Integrated Tests (Fit)
    FitNesse

    - Fit is an open-source tool for automated customer tests.
    - Fit automatically compares customers' expectations to actual results.
    - Customers' examples are formatted in tables and saved as HTML using tools such as Microsoft Excel.
    - Fit colors the tables green, red, and yellow according to whether the software behaved as expected.
    - FitNesse is a self-contained, fully integrated, wiki and acceptance testing framework based upon Fit.









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