Agile Testing Foundations

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors wish to acknowledge the International Software Testing Qualifications Board, and especially the members of the Agile Working Group who created the syllabus upon which we based this book. Many of those authors chose to participate in the writing of this book, but, in a way, all syllabus authors and reviewers contributed.

We also acknowledge the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, who disrupted but also reinvigorated software engineering. By mixing new ideas with established best practices, Agile methods have made software faster-moving and more dynamic.

Most of all, we acknowledge the day-to-day practitioners of software testing in Agile teams. The initial ideas of Agile methods did not focus on software ...