This course will equip your agile team with practical skill and techniques they can use right away. The Holistic Testing training is available both as an in-house private course and in a remotely facilitated form. Please contact for details.
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Overview
Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin, co-authors of the highly popular Agile Testing, More Agile Testing and Agile Testing Condensed books bring you a three-day training course for agile teams and testers. Participants learn ways the whole software delivery team can collaborate to plan and execute testing activities needed to build quality into their product.
The course language is ENGLISH.
At the end of the course the attendees have the possibility to test their knowledge in the form of an an online assessment: the receive a certificate of achievement and can join the Agile Testing Fellowship online community where they can get continued help and support.
Through lecture, discussion and hands-on simulations, the course helps you learn essential principles and practices, including:
• How testing fits into the short iterations and frequent deliveries in an agile manner, including adoption of continuous delivery
• Contributions that testers can make to become valued agile team members, and help with adopting approaches such as DevOps
• Common cultural and logistical obstacles in transitioning to an agile development process
• Values and principles that help team members adopt an agile testing mindset
• How the whole team contributes to the success of testing practices, such as acceptance-test driven development (ATDD), test automation, and exploratory testing
The course is filled with real-life examples of how teams collaborate to frequently deliver high-value, high-quality software. A simulation of an agile project wraps up the whole course, giving participants an opportunity to put all the puzzle pieces together and practice what they have learned. You’ll leave with practical skills and techniques you and your team can start using right away.
Target audience
The course is aimed at anyone who wants to learn what testing means on an agile team. All team members will benefit from understanding their contribution and the interaction with testers on the team. Test/QA and development managers, who work with testers, will also find the course valuable. Basic agile knowledge is recommended so the participants can actively contribute with questions and shared experiences.
Participants learn essential principles and practices through lecture, hands-on simulation and discussion.
About the instructor
Gáspár Nagy is the creator and main contributor of SpecFlow and Reqnroll, regular conference speaker, blogger (http://gasparnagy.com), editor of the “BDD Addict” monthly newsletter (http://bddaddict.com), and co-author of the “BDD Books: Discovery” and “BDD Books: Formulation” (http://bddbooks.com).
He has been developing a synchronization tool called SpecSync that integrates Gherkin-based scenarios to Azure DevOps and Jira.
Gáspár is an independent coach, trainer and test automation expert focusing on helping teams implementing BDD and SpecFlow. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software development as he worked as an architect and agile developer coach.