Agile Testing (ICP-TST)

Course Code: 1510

$1495

Overview
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What you'll learn
Outline
Prerequisites
Who should attend
Certification

Overview

Traditional risk-based test practice is challenged by incremental delivery. This two-day course examines concepts such as pair testing, strengthening relationships, working in sync with the developers and incremental confirmed component delivery. The course points out the differences between traditional testing and Agile testing methods, highlighting the changes that need to be made to apply the best testing principles. The course introduces participants to the Agile testing process, and explores the practices that will be of immense help to the participants in their work life.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 3 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 3 days

What You'll learn

Improve software quality delivered by the Agile development teams
Apply all four quadrants of software testing to ensure the effectiveness of both business facing and technology facing testing
Accelerate defect detection and correction, and lower integration costs through continuous integration
‘Build the product right’ by applying techniques like Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Capitalize on your investment in traditional testing methods by transitioning them to an Agile approach
Address product and technical risk using Risk-based testing to better focus the time and the resources
Enhance the skills of your testers and development team to effectively conduct adequate testing
Learn from defects so you can optimize your Agile development process
Achieve higher product confidence by using Pair Testing
Optimize the performance of your Agile teams through proper testing roles

Outline

Part I: Agile Testing Mindset

Module 1: Overview of Agile Testing

Origins of Agile testing
Agile testing vs. Traditional approaches

Module 2: Mindset and Culture

Agile testing principles
Whole team approach
Building quality
Continuous improvement and feedback
Exercise: Ingraining the Agile Testing Mindset

Part II: Testing Techniques

Module 3: Categories of testing

Agile testing: Quadrants of the categories
Automation pyramid: introduction
Testing techniques

Module 4: Collaborating with developers

Unit and component testing
Pairing between Developer and Tester

Module 5: Exam driven development

Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
Spec by Example

Module 6: Feature and Story testing

User story testing
Feature testing
Exploratory testing
Non-functional testing

Part III: Agile Testing Process

Module 7: Roles and Responsibilities

Team-based testing approach
Typical business representative role in testing
Typical programmer role in testing
Typical tester role in testing
Role of test managers in Agile

Module 8: Test Strategy and Planning

Different strategies based on levels of precision
During iteration planning and kickoff
Lightweight test plan documentation
Defect tracking and management
Result reporting
Test metrics
Regression tests

Module 9: Successful Delivery

Time-boxed delivery
Continuous delivery
Post-development test cycles
Iteration wrap-up
Definition of a release/end game
User Acceptance Test (UAT)
System-wide and cross-team testing
Post-release testing
Documentation for regulatory requirements

Module 10: Test environment and infrastructure

Typical environments for Test
Build pipeline
Automated builds
Testing the proper build
Test data management

Module 11: Working on Distributed Teams

Distributed Team Communication
Distributed Team Coordination

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course. Completing the Foundations of Agile course would be beneficial.

Who Should Attend

The Agile Testing course is highly recommended for –

Quality analysts and engineers
Software test leads and testers
Software quality and testing managers
Software project managers
Software engineering managers
Business analysts
Software development managers
IT managers
Programmers/developers

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Certification

Upon completion of the course, participants get the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Testing (ICP-TST) certification. The ICP-TST certification focusses on Agile testing techniques and processes as well as the mindset and role of an Agile tester. It equips participants with the skills to ‘Agilize’ different types of testing on an Agile project and understand how to best collaborate on an Agile development cadence.

There is no official ICAgile exam associated with this course. The certification can be achieved only after completing the course successfully.