8. Test

The role of professional testing will inevitably change from “adult supervision” to something more closely resembling an amplifier for the communication between those who generally have a feeling for what the system should do and those who will make it do.1

—Kent Beck

Figure 8-1: Testing is a primary assessment of done for the sprint, the landing of the product backlog items as intended.2

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The previous chapters have all been about driving quality upstream, ensuring that we have a clean product backlog, clean code and unit tests, and a reliable build process that cleanly deploys new bits into a test lab (see Figure 8-2). This cleanliness ...

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