Crispin Lisa - More agile testing learning journeys for the whole team

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LEARNING JOURNEYS FOR THE WHOLE TEAM

Janet Gregory
Lisa Crispin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gregory, Janet, 1953
More agile testing : learning journeys for the whole team / Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-321-96705-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Computer softwareTesting. 2. Agile software development. I. Crispin, Lisa. II. Title.
QA76.76.T48G74 2015
005.1dc23

2014027150

Copyright 2015 Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin

Illustrations by Jennifer Sinclair

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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-96705-3
ISBN-10: 0-321-96705-4
Text printed in the United States on recycled paper at RR Donnelley in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Second printing, October 2015

I love this book. It will help to create really great testers. Thats a good thing, since anyone who reads this will want to have one on their team.

Liz Keogh, agile coach, Lunivore Limited

This book will change your thinking and move your focus from tests to testing. Yes, it is not about the result, but about the activity!

Kenji Hiranabe, cofounder of Astah and CEO, Change Vision, Inc.

To my mind, agile development is about learningthat one word captures the true spirit of what agile is all about. When I had the chance to read through their new book, I could only say, Wow! Janet and Lisa have done themselves proud. This is not a book about testing; this is a book about learning. Their clear explanations are accompanied by great true stories and an impressive list of books, articles, and other resources. Those of us who like learning, who love to dig for more information, can rejoice! I know youre always looking for something interesting and useful; I can guarantee that you will find it here!

Linda Rising, coauthor of Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas

Janet and Lisas first book, Agile Testing, drew some general principles that are still important today but left me wondering, how? In this second book, they adapt those principles to todays development landscapewith mobile, DevOps, and cloud-based applications delivered in increasingly compressed release cycles. Readers get specific testing tools for the mind along with new practices and commentary to accelerate learning. Read it today.

Matt Heusser, Managing Principal, Excelon Development

An excellent guide for your teams agile journey, full of resources to help you with every kind of testing challenge you might meet along the way. Janet and Lisa share a wealth of experience with personal stories about how they helped agile teams figure out how to get value from testing. I really like how the book is filled with techniques explained by leading industry practitioners whove pioneered them in their own organizations.

Rachel Davies, agile coach, unruly and coauthor of Agile Coaching

Let me net this out for you: agile quality and testing is hard to get right. Its nuanced, context-based, and not for the faint of heart. In order to effectively balance it, you need hard-earned, pragmatic, real-world advice. This book has itnot only from Janet and Lisa, but also from forty additional expert agile practitioners. Get it and learn how to effectively drive quality into your agile products and across your entire organization.

Bob Galen, Principal Consultant, R Galen Consulting Group, and Author of Agile Reflections and Scrum Product Ownership

Janet and Lisa have done it again. Theyve combined pragmatic life experience with ample storytelling to help people take their agile testing to the next level.

Jonathan Rasmusson, author of Agile Samurai: How Masters Deliver Great Software

In this sequel to their excellent first book, Janet and Lisa have embraced the maturity of agile adoption and the variety of domains in which agile approaches are now being applied. In More Agile Testing they have distilled the experiences of experts working in different agile organizations and combined them with their own insights into a set of invaluable lessons for agile practitioners. Structured around a range of essential areas for software professionals to consider, the book examines what we have learned about applying agile, as its popularity has grown, and about software testing in the process. There is something for everyone here, not only software testers, but individuals in any business role or domain with an interest in delivering quality in an agile context.