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The posts you see here are full of useful, relevant information about agile and holistic testing. Please keep reading if you haven’t already visited them! Janet and Lisa are now regularly sharing their blog posts on their Agile Testing Fellowship
Looking back at Agile Testing, 15 years on
The software world experiences continual technological change. Just look at how AI is taking it by storm right now. Other changes seem much slower. Test-driven development, for example, is a long way from crossing the chasm after being around for
Test Automation Pyramid
Janet wanted a link for her new book “Facilitating a quality assessment” (exact title yet to come) on the test automation pyramid. To our horror, we realized that we have never blogged about it – at least not specifically. It’s
Applying the Agile Testing Quadrants to Continuous Delivery and DevOps Culture – Part 2 of 2
In Part 1, we showed how the quadrants can guide conversations to plan testing activities that support continuous delivery (CD). What about other tasks to support CD, like building a deployment pipeline?
Applying the Agile Testing Quadrants to Continuous Delivery and DevOps Culture – Part 1: Working Towards Continuous Delivery
This is a two-part series. Here in Part 1, we discuss using the agile testing quadrants in the context of working towards continuous delivery. Part 2 is about using the quadrants to plan your delivery pipeline.
Our take on the Modern Testing Principles
In our first book, Agile Testing, we introduced our “10 Principles for Agile Testers”. At the time, most testers were still part of a siloed testing team, working in a phased-and-gated methodology. The mindset shift to testing being a continual
Agile Testing Condensed Now Available in Paperback (On Amazon)!
Whether you have years of experience helping your team build quality into your software product, or you’re just starting out in an agile or DevOps team and wondering how to fit in all the testing activities, there is a lot
Our New Book – Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction
by Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin We (Lisa and Janet) realized some time ago that our first two books Agile Testing and More Agile Testing were intimidating to many readers (although the people who did get through them, found them
Scaled Agile Integration Testing – Guest blog post
This is a guest blog post by Carey Fletcher, a Tet Manager with QualIT, and has over 10 years of testing experience working in various sectors with her expertise in software test processes and practices. Carey contacted Janet to get
What’s In Our Books – And What’s Not
We’re often asked whether our books are suitable for people who don’t yet know anything about testing. Another question we sometimes get is along the lines of “Why don’t your books contain in-depth explanations of systems thinking, coverage, oracles, model-based
Agile Testing Books
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.
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.
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.
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.