Agile Testing (ICP-TST)

This comprehensive online training course guides you through transitioning traditional test practices into an Agile environment, strengthening product quality, accelerating process improvement, and building team confidence in modern software development.

Your Immediate Takeaways:

• Examine the concept and benefits of pair testing
• Build a sense of shared purpose and strengthen team relationships and collaboration
• Deliver testing value at high speed and add measurable value to your organization

Course Overview:

This online training introduces you to high-speed testing methods and explores their practical applications in modern development environments. You'll learn from your instructor about the transition from traditional to Agile approaches, covering key roles, methods, and technologies that deliver flexibility and reliability. Traditional testing approaches often create barriers under new development methodologies and place significant pressure on test teams to compromise quality. By building on traditional risk-based test practices while embracing incremental delivery, you'll understand how to navigate this critical challenge. From your own workspace, you'll compare traditional methods against Agile testing approaches, identify changes you want to make, and discover new roles to adopt within your organization. You'll gain practical knowledge to transition your entire release cycle to Agile testing practices, allowing you to return to your office with newfound confidence and enthusiasm to implement these changes.

Who Should Attend:

This course benefits team members across the quality assurance and testing spectrum, including quality analysts and engineers, software test leads and testers, software quality and testing managers, software project managers, software engineering managers, business analysts, software development managers, IT managers, and programmers or developers who want to learn Agile goals and implement effective testing in high-speed Agile environments.

How You Will Benefit:

• Understand how to transition traditional testing methods to an Agile approach and mindset
• Adapt traditional test methods based on changing development contexts and requirements
• Address risk as a foundation for project delivery and use risk assessment to focus resources effectively
• Apply just-in-time and late-as-possible techniques to create an efficient workflow and reduce waste
• Estimate test effort as an integrated component of Agile project estimates
• Appreciate the strategic role of automation as an efficient support tool within Agile teams
• Understand how Agile team roles challenge traditional, end-stage service delivery models
• Track and manage testing resources across the entire development team using low-cost, highly effective tools
• Utilize skeletal design to form a framework for test suite development, management, and regression testing
• Ensure robust regression test capabilities within your Agile testing approach
• Discover how collaborative delivery creates value and improves outcomes
• Improve your skill sets to become truly adaptable and effective in Agile environments
• Reduce defect costs by knowing where to focus your testing efforts for maximum impact
• Build speed and flexibility into various project development scenarios beyond just Agile projects

What You Will Cover:

• Understanding the key differences between traditional and Agile testing practices and philosophies
• Developing a comprehensive transition plan to move into Agile testing successfully
• Constructing a lean testing framework to expedite Agile delivery and reduce overhead
• Operating effectively in time-constrained development cycles without sacrificing testable value
• Developing iteration zero test plans that guide test-design development throughout the project
• Using high-speed test methods to support story-based testing approaches
• Capitalizing on test development through effective use and reuse management practices
• Integrating collaborative team testing into Agile projects and workflows
• Building lean test artifacts for regression testware that maintains quality standards
• Engaging stakeholders in quality tradeoff decision-making and trade-off discussions
• Coaching story card contributors in test-case construction and quality thinking
• Gaining practical exposure to automation support opportunities and tools