3 AGILE TESTING METHODS, TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS

By Rex Black, Istvan Forgács, Kari Kakkonen and Jan Sabak

In Chapter 3, we get into the day-to-day operational details of what an Agile tester must do. The first section addresses Agile testing methods, including test-driven development, acceptance test-driven development and behaviour-driven development. We put those methods in the context of two ways to think about both manual and automated testing, the concepts of the test pyramid and the testing quadrants, and relate those two concepts to the traditional ISTQB® concepts of testing levels and testing types. To make these testing methods more specific and concrete, we use the role of the tester in a Scrum team.

Section 3.2 addresses how to determine, ...

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