More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

Chapter 8. Using Models to Help Plan

As agile development becomes increasingly mainstream, there are established techniques that experienced practitioners use to help plan testing activities in agile projects, although less experienced teams sometimes misunderstand or misuse these useful approaches. Also, the advances in test tools and frameworks have somewhat altered the original models that applied back in the early 2000s. Models help us view testing from different perspectives. Let’s look at some foundations of agile test planning and how they are evolving.

Agile Testing Quadrants

The agile testing quadrants (the Quadrants) are based on a ...