Do you want to improve your test capability?
An organisation’s decision to shift towards a more agile & lean software development often leaves Testers wondering where they fit; promises of all the testing being automated, the whole team owning quality & light documentation appear to take away everything that Testers hold close to their heart.
Are you facing these challenges?
- How does Agile testing affect the testing role?
- How can we make testing a first class citizen?
- How can we build in quality earlier in the development cycle?
- What tools are available?
- How do I create a test strategy?
- How do I implement a test strategy?
The AgileTesting workshop tackles these issues providing you with practical takeaways enabling you to build test capoabilities.
What are people saying?
“I was concerned that my methods of testing would be severely questioned. In fact, I found my issues were the same as everyone else’s. The surgery session addressed real-time issues that I found very useful. This is a very useful day’s workshop with excellent ideas and very helpful.”
– National Express
“The session on how we manage / triage defects really helped to alleviate my biggest fears. The workshop is well worth attending in order to reduce the fear of change in methodologies.”
– JCB
“The best part of the day for me was discovering the leaner, lighter alternatives to producing traditional test scripts and scrapping the no value artefacts we currently produce. The format of the day will trigger you to have a lot of open discussions which will end up with some good actions.”
– NHS Digital
Topics Covered
An organisation’s decision to shift towards a more agile & lean software development often leaves Testers wondering where they fit; promises of all the testing being automated, the whole team owning quality & light documentation appear to take away everything that Testers hold close to their heart. The iterative development cycle of Agile has not removed the need for Testers, but it has caused the roles & responsibilities of those doing the testing to change. So how do Testers fit in this fast paced delivery cycle? In this one-day intensive course we’ll introduce the principles behind Agile, understand how we test software in an Agile development team, and prepare you to hit the ground running and drive positive change within your team.
- How your role as a Tester changes
- What techniques and tools are available
- What is Agile
- Brief history of software development
- Delivery Principles
- Batch size
- Feedback loops
- Role and responsibilities of an Agile Tester
- Day to day interactions with other team members
- Typical duties carried out by an Agile Tester
- Generalising Specialists
- What to include in a test strategy
- How to structure your test strategy
- How to get buy in from the team/org
- How to execute your test strategy
- The Test Automation Pyramid
- Techniques and Tools
- Automated Test Driven Development (ATDD)
- Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
- Test Automation
- Continuous Integration
- Deployment Pipelines
- Technical Environments
- Source Control
- Release Management
Everyone involved in software development should learn these powerful techniques and behaviours. On this one day workshop you’ll learn the best techniques and practices, taken from a broad range of Agile methodologies, needed to create a productive, yet safe working environment.
This session is packed full of tricks and tips discovered from years of experience helping teams to deliver great software.
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What about certification?
We strongly believe in having flexibility in our approach to delivering real world training, that gets results. As such, our courses are not formally accredited, meaning we are free to select the best practices from a broad range of methods to deliver unique learning experiences. All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance.
Meet your trainer
Ian Carroll
Brickell Key Award winner Ian Carroll is a consultant, coach, and speaker on all topics related to Lean, Kanban and Agile software development. Using his 25 years of hands-on experience he helps teams transform their ways of working using Kanban and other Lean and Agile techniques to lower costs while increasing their ability to respond to changing market demands and outperform competitors. Ian has trained and coached hundreds of software development teams in Agile, Lean, and Kanban techniques.