Crispin Lisa(Contributor) - Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

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Eleventh printing, October 2015

To my husband, Bob Downingyoure the bees knees!
Lisa

To Jack, Dana, and Susan, and to all the writers in my family.
Janet

And to all our favorite donkeys and dragons.
Lisa and Janet

Abbot GUI test tool,

Acceptance tests. See also

definition,

Remote Data Monitoring system example,

UAT (user acceptance testing) compared with,

Ad hoc testing,

Adaptability, skills and,

ADEPT (AS400 Displays for External Prototyping and Testing),

Advance clarity

customers speaking with one voice,

determining story size,

gathering all viewpoints regarding requirements,

overview of,

Advance preparation

downside of,

how much needed,

Agile development

Agile manifesto and,

barriers to. See

team orientation of,

Agile Estimating and Planning (Cohn),

Agile manifesto

people focus,

statement of,

value statements in,

Agile principles. See

Agile testers. See also

agile testing mind-set,

definition,

giving all team members equal weight,

hiring,

what they are,

Agile testing

definition,

as mind-set,

what we mean,

Agile values,

Alceas FIT IssueTrack,

Alpha tests,

ant,

as build tool,

continual builds and,

AnthillPro,

ANTS Profiler Pro,

Apache JMeter. See

API-layer functional test tools,

Fit and FitNesse,

overview of,

testing web Services,

API testing

automating,

overview of,

APIs (application programming interfaces),

Appleton, Brad,

Application under test (AUT),

Applications

integration testing with external applications,

Remote Data Monitoring system example,

Architecture

incremental approach to testing,

layered,

Quadrant 1 tests and,

scalability and,

testable,

AS400 Displays for External Prototyping and Testing (ADEPT),

Assumptions, hidden

agile testers response to,

failure to detect,

questions that uncover,

worst-case scenarios and,

Attitude

agile testing mind-set,

barriers to adopting agile development,

vs. skills,

Audits, compliance with audit requirements,

AUT (application under test),

Authorization, security testing and,

Automated regression testing

key success factors,

release candidates and,

as a safety net,

Automated test lists, test plan alternatives,

Automation

code flux and,

of deployment,

driving development with,

of exploratory testing,

fear of,

feedback from,

freeing people for other work,

of functional test structure,

home-brewed test,

investment required,

learning curve,

legacy code and,

maintainability and,

manual testing vs.,

obstacles to,

old habits and,

overview of,

programmers attitude regarding,

reasons for,

responding to change and,

ROI and,

task cards and,

testability and,

tests as documentation,

Automation strategy

agile coding practices and,

applying one tool at a time,

data generation tools,

database access and,

design and maintenance and,

developing,

identifying tool requirements,

implementing,

iterative approach,

keep it simple,

learning by doing,

managing automated tests,

multi-layered approach to,

organizing test results,

organizing tests,

overview of,

principles,

record/playback tools and,

starting with area of greatest pain,

taking time to do it right,

test automation pyramid,

test categories,

tool selection,

understanding purpose of tests and,

what can be automated,

what might be difficult to automate,

whole team approach,

Automation tools,

API-layer functional test tools,

builds and,

GUI test tools,

overview of,

unit-level test tools,

web services test tool,

Bach, James,

Bach, Jonathan,

Back-end testing

behind the GUI,

non-UI testing,

Bamboo,

conflicting or multiple roles,

cultural differences among roles,

lack of training,

lack of understanding of agile concepts,

loss of identity,

overview of,

past experience and attitudes,

Baselines

break-test baseline technique,

performance,

Batch

files,

processing,

scheduling process,

BDD (Behavior-driven development)

easyb tool,

tools for Quadrant 1 tests,

Beck, Kent,

Benander, Mark,

Benchmarking,

Berczuk, Stephen,

Beta testing,