Testing Faster

Testing Faster explores the principles and practises of agile testing. The class is taught in a dynamic, interactive and engaging style. There are no slides or handouts. Instead participants work together in small groups to reinforce the training and make it relevant to their own context.

OUTLINE

Test Strategy— reasoning about what, where and when to test
Test Design— reasoning about how to test
BDD— understanding its relationship to testing and automation
Automation— when, where to automate, and where not to
Designing for Testability— how test thinking can inform design, development and deployment

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After completing the class, participants will be better able to:

identify and apply a number of testing techniques and methods.
make design choices that promote testability
understand and implement non-functional testing strategies for e.g. performance and resilience testing.
make suitable cost benefit trade-offs for testing throughout the application lifecycle.
recognise the diminishing return of different testing techniques and avoiding over-testing.
apply consistent testing techniques within and across applications.
understand and develop the role of test analysts.
introduce instrumentation, analytics and telemetry into their development approach.
classify testing techniques by various characteristics and describe their respective merits and trade-offs.
apply a risk-based approach to recognising missing or inadequate testing.
apply feature management techniques like semantic versioning and feature hiding.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is for anyone in an agile team, not just testers, and especially anyone in a team that is thinking about adopting agile methods and wanting to get started the right way.