Advanced Topics in Agile Testing - with Lisa Crispin

As Agile becomes more and more mainstream, many teams have gained traction on agile testing principles and practices such as Specification by Example/ ATDD, the Whole-Team approach to testing, and continuous integration. Unfortunately, there are always new problems to solve!

This full day workshop will address common testing-related problems experienced by more experienced agile testing practitioners, such as managing technical debt, feature acceptance, exploratory testing, working with distributed teams and large systems, continual learning, and improving ROI of automated tests.

Participants will begin with an exercise to identify and prioritise topics or problems related to agile testing that they'd like to address throughout the day. As many as possible will be tackled using hands-on exercises, simulations and group discussions.

By the end of the day, each participant will have at least one experiment for their own team to try in order to mitigate their worst problem or obstacle. They'll also be able to connect with others who have experience with similar issues to their own.

Participants should have experience applying agile values and principles in their work, and have a basic understanding of commonly-used agile practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development, and acceptance test-driven-develompent/Specification by Example. They should know agile terminology such as "technical debt" and "refactoring".

Laptops are not needed, as simulations, rather than working with actual software, will be used.

Come with your list of burning issues, and be prepared for fun, interactive learning.

Please email jacqui@software-acumen.com or call us on +44 (0)1223 900107 if you have any questions about the event.

About Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), co-author with Tip House of Extreme Testing (Addison-Wesley, 2002), and a contributor to Experiences of Test Automation by Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster (Addison-Wesley, 2011), DevOps for Developers by Michael Huetterman (Apress 2012), and Beautiful Testing (O’Reilly, 2009).

Lisa combines her practical experience “in the trenches” with inspiration and new skills gained from workshops and conferences. Her preferred coaching method is working side-by-side with testers and teams to help them understand their problems and find good ways to deliver better business value.

She enjoys sharing her experiences via writing, presenting, teaching and participating in agile testing communities around the world. She also enjoys learning better ways to deliver quality software working as a tester on the Pivotal Tracker team.

For more about Lisa’s work, visit www.lisacrispin.com, @lisacrispin on Twitter and http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin

Event Venue

The Moller Centre is a multi award-winning management training and conference centre located in the heart of the historic city of Cambridge. Training rooms are purpose-built and event catering includes fresh, healthy, locally-sourced cuisine. Free wifi is also included.