Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

Foreword by Mike Cohn

“Quality is baked in,” the programmers kept telling me. As part of a proposed acquisition, my boss had asked me to perform some final due diligence on the development team and its product. We’d already established that the company’s recently launched product was doing well in the market, but I was to make sure we were not about to buy more trouble than benefit. So I spent my time with the development team. I was looking for problems that might arise from having rushed the product into release. I wondered, “Was the code clean? Were there modules that could only be worked on by one developer? Were there hundreds or thousands of defects waiting to be discovered?” And when I asked about the team’s approach to testing, “Quality ...