December 2008
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 15m
English
Content preview from Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
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Chapter 2 Ten Principles for Agile Testers
Everyone on an agile team is a tester. Anyone can pick up testing tasks. If that’s true, then what is special about an agile tester? If I define myself as a tester on an agile team, what does that really mean? Do agile testers need different skill sets than testers on traditional teams? What guides them in their daily activities?
In this chapter, we talk about the agile testing mind-set, show how agile values and principles guide testing, and give an overview of how testers add value on agile teams.
What’s an Agile Tester?
We define an agile tester this way: a professional tester who ...