Using Lean Thinking to Improve Agile Testing: The New Role of QA

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Using Lean Thinking to Improve Agile Testing

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Alan Shalloway

Testing obviously takes on new importance in agile development. Automated acceptance test, test-driven development, and other techniques are rising in both importance and practice. These are necessary, but not enough. Finding errors in only half the problem – and not the most important half at that. Testing must improve the development process to avoid the errors in the first place. Errors aren’t just bugs. They include communication errors, errors in understanding, and many other kinds of errors.
The role of Quality Assurance in the Agile world must be one of preventing errors not merely finding them. This webinar discusses how QA can improve both the product and the process being used to develop the product. Participants will learn:

Why automated acceptance testing enables agile methods
How QA must work with development teams in order to improve the process of analysis, design and code
How Lean thinking is essential in the Agile testing environment

Developers, Analysts, Testers and people formally in a QA role will benefit by attending. New ways of doing acceptance testing as well as how to coordinate developers with testers will be discussed. In particular, the need for moving test involvement up to the front of the development cycle will be discussed as well as how this can greatly improve the process.

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Publish Date

06/16/2008

Length

60 minutes

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