Agile Testing & Quality Management Training

1. Test Driven Development (TDD)

• Origins/explanation of TDD
  • Discuss where TDD came from, its usage in the industry, some of the thought leaders that support it.
• Rationale for incorporating TDD
  • Covers why TDD should be used, and how it dovetails with an agile approach.
• Testing basics
  • Refresher on the differences between white box, grey box, and black box testing and describes how they apply to agile testing.
• Principles of TDD
  • Covers an overview of the basic concepts of TDD such as writing tests to fail, refactoring, and test maintenance
• Exercise: Write sample tests.
  • Students will perform a practical exercise whereby a simulated application will perform various functions based on provided instructions. Tests will be written for validation.

2. User Story Acceptance Testing

• Understanding User Story Acceptance criteria.
  • Discussion and examples of how drive test cases from User Stories and the concept of behavior driven acceptance criteria
• Scenarios and business flow models
  • Covers examples and techniques for stringing together logically connected stories into test scenarios
• Where and when to incorporate testing in an agile project
  • Describes the delineation between black box and white box testing and how those in the tester and analyst role collaborate with those in the development role to understand acceptance criteria
• Definition of “done”
  • Discussion on when enough testing has occurred to establish that a story is “potentially shippable”
• Exercise: Write acceptance criteria and scenarios
  • Students will take user stories and build acceptance criteria and assemble scenario-based test cases

3. Continuous Integration (CI)

• CI definition and concepts
  • Discuss what continuous integration is and why it is essential to successful agile implementations.
• Test suite framework
  • Talks about the need for a black box testing framework in which to run tests. Attributes of a good test framework.
• CI tools
  • Overview of CI tools, discussion of how such tools can be coupled with Source Code Management tools to provide a CI solution.
• Code Coverage
  • Discussion on the importance of testing all code, to include exception handling and unlikely scenarios
• Coverage reporting.
  • Learn how to ensure, through reports that you or your team’s code has test coverage

4. TDD and Unit Testing

• Test First Concepts and techniques.
  • Covers examples and methodology for key concepts on building tests that will drive out design and eventually code.
• Testing frameworks
  • Demonstration, definition, and discussion of the characteristics of testing framework for use by developers.
• Using the Strategy design pattern
  • A brief introduction to the GOF pattern known as Strategy, which can be used to instantiate a testing framework implementation.
• Exercise: Design a simple test framework
  • Students will design a simple test framework and based on previous exercises, use those tests to validate the framework.
• Repeat writing and refactoring code to pass tests
  • In depth discussion of best practices involving test-first techniques of writing large numbers of tests and then refactoring code to pass them
• Exercise: Write simple tests
  • Students will write some simple unit tests to get a flavor for how much testing and test writing would need to occur on a TDD project.