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Our ever-evolving, never set-in-stone definition of ‘agile testing’

July 7, 2017 / Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin / Agile Testing / 12 Comments

Our definition of “agile testing” Thanks everyone for your input on our original definition. We’ve changed it slightly based on new conversations and comments. Definition of agile testing: (by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory) Collaborative testing practices that occur continuously, from inception to delivery and beyond, supporting frequent delivery of value for our customers. Testing […]

Our Definition of “Agile Testing”

June 30, 2017 / Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin / Agile Testing Book Blog / 57 Comments

A student in one of Janet’s classes asked her for a definition of agile testing. He wanted a nice clean definition, which he didn’t get from our 3-day class. Janet went through both of the books we authored, Agile Testing and More Agile Testing, and found that we do not have a succinct definition in […]

Now Translated to Chinese – More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

We are delighted that a Chinese translation of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team is now available. Many thanks to Xu Yi, an agile coach and consultant, along with Tsinghua University Press, for translating More Agile Testing to Chinese. We wrote our books to help agile teams and testers around the world succeed […]

Learning from Agile Testing Days, Put Into Practice

January 4, 2016 / Crispin Lisa / The Book / 1 Comment

Learning from Agile Testing Days, Put Into Practice It’s been almost two months since Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany. As you can tell from the subtitle of our latest book, Janet and I put a high priority on continual learning. I went to ATD with specific learning goals, which I achieved. But I also made […]

The Making of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team – Part 3 of 3

January 27, 2015 / Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin / Agile Testing Book Blog / No Comments

What We Learned Writing Agile Testing together showed us the value of pairing on a book. Thanks to our complementary skills, we stuck to a schedule, and honed our writing so that even we couldn’t tell who had written the first draft of a chapter. We liked the conversational tone of our writing. We knew […]

The Making of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team – Part 2 of 3

January 21, 2015 / Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin / Agile Testing Book Blog / No Comments

Reviews and Edits – The First Round We are so grateful for our volunteer reviewers. A handful of them read each chapter at least once, and a happy few reviewed all of our chapters through three revisions. We experimented with ways to get feedback.

The Making of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team – Part 1 of 3

January 14, 2015 / Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin / Agile Testing Book Blog / No Comments

We’ve had so many questions over the past few months about how long our book took to write, what is different from the first book, how did we come up with the title, etc., that we decided to make our first blog post on this site about that. However, we had so much fun going […]