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Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction
Agile Testing Condensed presents a concise, easy-to-read overview of how to succeed with testing and build a quality culture in an agile context. Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin have distilled their knowledge from two decades of agile testing to help readers understand: -How to fit testing activities into an agile cycle-Who is responsible for completing various testing activities, and when-How to get testers engaged with the rest of the agile development team-How to get everyone on a delivery team engaged in continuous testing-Ways to plan testing activities using visual models-How testing can "keep up" with short iterations or even continuous delivery-How to evaluate testing effectiveness and continually improve -How to visualize a test automation strategyThis book is a must for testers, software delivery team members, product team members, business stakeholders, managers, and executives who want to know how to build quality into their product as they move to agile methods.The authors� first two books, Agile Testing and More Agile Testing, give detailed examples of testing challenges faced by real agile teams and describe how they were solved. This condensed book provides an overview of the agile testing practices that have proven useful in many contexts. For more details on any topics in Agile Testing Condensed, please see:Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2014
119 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2019
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Janet Gregory
22Ìýbooks7ÌýfollowersBy the time INHERIT THE SEA was published in 1980, Janet Gregory had already written eight books of mystery, set in Montreal, Canada and Palm Beach, FL. where she was moving after completing her second novel in what appears to be a series, THE TIDES OF DESTINY. It was announced at the back of the present volume.
However, this seems to be her only work extant. Perhaps the others were written under a pseudonym.
-Information, slightly adapted, was taken from the back inside of the above-named volume.
However, this seems to be her only work extant. Perhaps the others were written under a pseudonym.
-Information, slightly adapted, was taken from the back inside of the above-named volume.
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January 17, 2021
A good introduction to agile testing. It does a good job of hitting the broad strokes, while making sure to link to more resources to dive in deeper from.
Both authors are excellent, and the writing in the book is clear and seemed right for someone who had been testing for a while but wanted to dig into agile testing concepts more (or have a refresher).
There were a couple of frustrating illustrations in the book (none of the Agile Testing Quadrant images had the quadrants labeled as written in the book. You could figure it out, but it was still a little frustrating...unless I completely missed something. One piece of text referenced the wrong illustration). As an aside, some of the illustrations felt like they were just for fun, which I think was fine and would kind of like other books to do more.
The bigger nitpick I had with the book was that I wish they had interviewed testers who were not just coaches and trainers in chapter 11. I sometimes feel like those roles are overemphasized (over Leads and 'in-the-trenches' testers who work for a company, rather than being consultants). That said, the advice was fairly solid, just would be nice to get those other perspectives more often.
All in all, a very solid book. I plan on attempting to get a book club together to read it through this coming year (I bought it with that intent last year, but then COVID stymied that book club attempt as it was getting off the ground).
Would highly recommend this to anyone who is a tester and wants to start learning about agile environments before digging in deeper with further materials, or just for someone like me who appreciates a refresher, reference guide, and other points of views.
Both authors are excellent, and the writing in the book is clear and seemed right for someone who had been testing for a while but wanted to dig into agile testing concepts more (or have a refresher).
There were a couple of frustrating illustrations in the book (none of the Agile Testing Quadrant images had the quadrants labeled as written in the book. You could figure it out, but it was still a little frustrating...unless I completely missed something. One piece of text referenced the wrong illustration). As an aside, some of the illustrations felt like they were just for fun, which I think was fine and would kind of like other books to do more.
The bigger nitpick I had with the book was that I wish they had interviewed testers who were not just coaches and trainers in chapter 11. I sometimes feel like those roles are overemphasized (over Leads and 'in-the-trenches' testers who work for a company, rather than being consultants). That said, the advice was fairly solid, just would be nice to get those other perspectives more often.
All in all, a very solid book. I plan on attempting to get a book club together to read it through this coming year (I bought it with that intent last year, but then COVID stymied that book club attempt as it was getting off the ground).
Would highly recommend this to anyone who is a tester and wants to start learning about agile environments before digging in deeper with further materials, or just for someone like me who appreciates a refresher, reference guide, and other points of views.
February 8, 2022
This is the most concise source on Agile Testing that I know of. Janet and Lisa compile their combined knowledge (plus that of other leading people in the agile and testing communities) to discuss the ideas, approaches, and models of testing in an agile environment. They also suggest concrete ways to think about the tester's role and how to organize testing in an agile team.
The book itself does not go into much detail on any of these topics, but is a great overview and offers lots of sources to dig deeper.
The book itself does not go into much detail on any of these topics, but is a great overview and offers lots of sources to dig deeper.
April 22, 2020
Una excelente y rapida lectura para los que quieren darse una empapada en los temas de agile testing.
A diferencia de sus previos libros, las autoras no entran a demasiado detalle en este, haciendo una descripcion mas general que sirve como guia para los que buscan direccion en temas especificos o tener una idea muy general de el proceso de calidad en agile.
Lectura requisito para toda persona involucrada en QA o agile.
A diferencia de sus previos libros, las autoras no entran a demasiado detalle en este, haciendo una descripcion mas general que sirve como guia para los que buscan direccion en temas especificos o tener una idea muy general de el proceso de calidad en agile.
Lectura requisito para toda persona involucrada en QA o agile.
November 16, 2022
I went through this book in a couple of hours free I had at work.
Not much was new to me, but it's a pretty good summary of how I see the QA/Tester/Quality engineer role at the current state of time in 2022.
It is just a summary though, as stated by the word "condensed" - so you will need to read other books after it to get the full details.
Not much was new to me, but it's a pretty good summary of how I see the QA/Tester/Quality engineer role at the current state of time in 2022.
It is just a summary though, as stated by the word "condensed" - so you will need to read other books after it to get the full details.
January 4, 2020
A great great condensed set of ideas :D
June 7, 2020
Great book to grasp a concept of a relevant testing approach in Agile world. It doesn't go into deep details, but shows good overall picture.
June 8, 2020
Great condensed book. It allows you to revisit many relevant testing approaches in a couple of hours of reading. It is fast reading and easy to read, book.
July 30, 2020
Nice overview and highlights of testing in an Lean/Agile/DevOps. Should be read by anyone doing or managing software development.
January 13, 2021
Nice and concise. Good introduction into the topics and good reference material.
Recommended as a refresher or for new comers.
Recommended as a refresher or for new comers.
May 27, 2021
Perfect and condensed. Practical and really util
February 8, 2022
It’s a very brief overview of much deeper concepts. It’s a great introductory book for Agile testers with valuable insights.
August 21, 2022
Excellent quick overview, great mental models.
May 12, 2023
Good introduction to testing in an agile environment.
April 26, 2025
If you have to explain a joke, it ceases to be funny. If you have to explain why testing specialists are still relevant, there's a strong likelihood that this is not the case. The end of the book laid out ways in which testers can still contribute in various ways to their team, but this book felt a bit like a tired defense of testing specialists that I've heard before. While I don't believe that testing is dead, I do believe that the skills required for a modern agile team are changing. "The more skills an individual has, the more valuable they become for a team or organization." This contributed commentary wasn't exactly earth shattering, but it does make sense. A Swiss Army Knife has more usefulness than a knife that only has a single blade. Anyone who thinks that they can continue to work in IT without keeping up with the pace of change in the industry is mistaken, and testers had better be able to contribute to their teams and their organizations in a multi-faceted way, or face extinction. If you can't adapt and improve as a tester, then learn to leverage your knowledge in other ways to contribute as a Product Owner, Scrum Master, UX designer, DevOps engineer, etc. In this industry, you can't stand still, or you'll be left behind.
October 10, 2019
For those who know about Agile Testing and read previous Agile Testing and More Agile Testing books, it's a resume.
I recommend this book for people-oriented working in development teams or IT departments that deliver software.
If you see you in trouble trying to explain how agile testing works, give this book as a gift to the person.
I recommend this book for people-oriented working in development teams or IT departments that deliver software.
If you see you in trouble trying to explain how agile testing works, give this book as a gift to the person.
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