Testing in an Agile Environment

Agile software practices are being employed within many development organisations worldwide. More and more test teams and testers are participating in agile projects or are embedded within agile teams. Learn the fundamentals of agile development, the role of the tester in the agile team, and the agile testing processes. This course prepares you to be a valuable member of an agile development team. Lecture presentations are supported by exercises allowing reinforcement of learning and enhancing the understanding process. Audience Test analysts, test team leaders, test managers, developers or project managers who wish to understand agile software development practices and how they impact upon testing processes. Testers about to become involved in testing on agile projects. Learning Objectives The objectives of this course are to enable participants to: Understand the need for, and principles of, agile methods.Recognise the constituent parts of Scrum.Understand the role of a tester in agile software development.Be able to write tests based on user stories and make a positive contribution to estimates of size and duration.Choose appropriate tests and test approaches in an agile development project. Lecture presentations are supported by exercises allowing reinforcement of learning and enhancing the understanding process.