Janet Gregory on Agile Testing
Kenji Hiranabe, CTO of Change Vision (the maker of Astah), interviewed Janet Gregory, co-author of “Agile Testing”, about “Learning Journeys for the Whole Team”.
About her book – “More Agile Testing”
Testing is central to the success of agile development, but key aspects of the tester’s role remain ambiguous or misunderstood. In More Agile Testing, two world-renowned agile test experts ask tough questions about agile testing – and provide definitive answers based on the experiences of successful agile teams worldwide.
Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory pioneered the agile testing discipline with their first book, Agile Testing. Now, they reflect on all that’s been learned in five years since it was published, addressing crucial additional issues and sharing newly evolved best practices for successfully integrating testing throughout your agile project…
In Agile, “Testing” is an activity, not a “phase”.
In the interview, Janet explains that testing means asking questions, of the software or of people, about assumptions. In traditional projects, testing comes at the end and is based on requirements written at the beginning, so there is often a mismatch. In agile, testing happens throughout the project, so it is an “activity”, not a “phase”.
She also talks about the importance of building trust between testers and developers.