Janet Gregory | Lisa Crispin

Whether you are a tester trying to figure out how you can contribute on an agile team, or an agile team wondering how to improve your product’s quality, our books and training courses will help you succeed.

Our Agile Testing Books

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Holistic Testing: Weave Quality Into Your Product

Learn about the Holistic Testing Model and how teams can use it to develop a quality and testing strategy. The new expanded edition includes an example test strategy, showing how it was built using the Holistic Testing model.

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Agile Testing Condensed

Discover a concise, easy-to-read overview of how to succeed with testing and build a quality culture in an agile context. This book is a must for testers, software delivery team members, product team members, business stakeholders, managers, and executives.

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More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

Learn about many additional areas of Agile Testing such as testing embedded software and mobile apps. The book delves into testing in a variety of contexts, such as distributed teams, large enterprise companies, and regulated industries. Additional patterns, practices and techniques for test automation, exploratory testing, learning and more are included. 40 expert practitioners share their own teams’ experiences and examples for a wide range of testing activities.
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Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

Dive deeper into principles and practices for succeeding with the Whole Team approach to quality and testing. We explain how to use models such as the Agile Testing Quadrants to successfully visualize and plan all testing activities. Along with several contributors from software delivery teams around the world, we share ways to solve common problems and succeed with test planning, exploratory testing, test automation, fitting all these activities into short iterations, and more.

Book Testimonials

Reviews for Holistic Testing

"The best part of this book is that they are clear about how you can make holistic testing a team activity and how you go about shift testing to the left."
"Holistic testing is an essential concept for agile teams aiming to deliver quality products frequently and safely, supporting the broader objective of CD."
"I recommend Holistic Testing to anyone who wants to move beyond silo thinking. The model encourages collaboration, reflection, and continuous improvement."
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Training Courses

There are two training courses: “Holistic Testing: Strategies for agile teams”, and “Holistic Testing for Continuous Delivery: For a quality DevOps culture”. These are taught either in-person and remotely by training providers around the world. Click the button below to learn more.