When transitioning from traditional approaches to Agile development, QA / testers are no longer handed the code after developers have finished working on it, rather, they are a crucial part of the same cross-functional team. Agile Testing is a field in the world of Agile that is focused on the thinking, principles and practices around QA / testing in a Lean/Agile world.
This field is highly related to Test Automation and specifically the practice of whole-team Acceptance Test Driven Development/Behaviour Driven Development using tools such as Fitnesse, Cucumber, SpecFlow, NBehave etc.
Services
AgileSparks helps organizations adopt Agile Testing thinking, principles and practices. We are driving forward the field of Agile Testing, especially by using Lean/Kanban flow thinking to help scale Agile Testing to the enterprise.
As part of our implementation services we help the organization establish new working agreements, better collaboration around handoffs using models like the Test Automation Pyramid, and help in the adoption of Agile Testing practices such as Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
We complement the implementation services with two key training workshops aimed at Agile Testing - Agile Testing workshop (more details) and Agile Testing Practices for Teams.
Resources from AgileSparks
Check out some resources from past AgileSparks activities:
Agile Testing by Dr Ronen Bar Nahor from Agile Israel 2010 (In hebrew)
Yuval Yeret - Article on journey from Waterfall to Agile/Kanban in Think Testing Magazine
Think Testing - a testing magazine in Israel, recently published an article by Yuval Yeret on the journey of a tester from Waterfall to Agile/Kanban Land. The article is in hebrew. Also available for download here
