Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

Chapter 21 Key Success Factors

Having traveled through an iteration and beyond, following an agile tester as she engages in many activities, we can now pick out some key factors that help testers succeed on agile teams and help agile teams succeed at delivering a high-quality product. We think agile testers have something special to offer. “Agile-infected” testers learn how to apply agile practices and principles to help their whole team produce a better product. “Test-infected” programmers on agile teams learn how to use testing to produce better work. Lines between roles are blurred, but that’s a good thing. Everyone is focused on quality. ...