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 15 Tester Activities in Release or Theme Planning
Agile development teams complete stories and deliver production-ready software in every iteration but plan the big picture or a larger chunk of functionality in advance. A theme, epic, or project may encompass several iterations. In this chapter, we look at what testers do when their team takes time to plan their release. We also consider ways to track whether our development is proceeding as anticipated, or if course corrections are needed.
The Purpose of Release Planning
One reason software teams try agile development is because they know long-range plans don’t work. ...