Agile testing tutorials and how to content : Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and other agile approaches for software testing.
Many teams have tried to implement agile software development practices and failed. When you read about transitioning to agile development, it sounds so easy. Why don’t all of them succeed and why do so many agile adoptions go so badly? In particular, testing seems to get off track.
This article discusses the traditional software testing aspects that should be changed before adopting Agile practices. Testing teams face a significant impediment when they have to unlearn the traditional practices.
This video provides a retrospective of what went right and, more importantly, what went wrong for the software testing activity during a transition to agile.. If agile is in your future, come discover what you’re in for, traps to avoid, and how to be successful. If you’re not ready for agile, you’ll learn some new approaches that can be applied to traditional processes.
in this blog post, Lisa Crispin proposes a short explanation on how to use and interpret the Agile Testing Quadrants defined by Brian Marick. The quadrants are a taxonomy that can help teams to plan their testing and to make sure they have all the resources they need to accomplish it.
In this blog post, Dave Rooney explains that microtests and TDD are excellent practices but you still need other levels of tests and testing to sustain a team’s ability to be agile over any extended period of time.
In this blog post, Steve Freeman explains why Test-Driven Development (TDD) is still an important tool for the software developer, even if there are circumstances where it could not be used.
This article presents a number of techniques that our team here at Microsoft has been using to build and test applications in Visual C++ using an Agile approach.
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