Agile Testing Days 2011
2011-11-14..2011-11-17
Potsdam, Germany
[Agile Testing Days 2011, Agile Testing Days 2014, Agile Testing Days 2016, Agile Testing Days 2018, Agile Testing Days 2023, Agile Testing Days 2024]
who it's for
agile testers, test managers, software developers, engineering managers, test architects, agile coaches, quality coaches
topics
exploratory testing techniques; feature-level acceptance tests; living documentation automation; risk-based test selection; deployment cadence and rollbacks; effect maps and production metrics; testing dojos and code retreats; test automation as code; management iterations and communities of practice; cognitive bias and mindfulness in testing; cross-training and role-mixing; feature switches and fast rollback
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Five Key Challenges for Agile Testers tomorrow | Gojko Adzic | 44m |
Argues that deployment cadence is shortening toward 10 releases a day, so full regression suites become infeasible and teams must adopt risk-based test… | ||
| Appendix A: What We´ve Learned Since Agile Testing | Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin | 58m |
Since the Agile Testing book the emphasis shifts to concrete practices: use a thousand-piece jigsaw as a reminder to prioritize feature-level acceptance tests… | ||
| Tutorial | Lisa Crispin | 02m |
A hands-on tutorial promises concrete tactics for moving beyond basic agile testing: practical strategies to shorten the feedback loop, techniques to keep… | ||
| No more Fooling around -- Skills & Dynamics of Exploratory Testing | Michael Bolton | 03m |
Argues that exploratory testing depends on human judgment and practiced technique rather than rigid scripts, claiming test automation cannot replace skilled… | ||
| People and Patterns | Esther Derby | 01h 02m |
Argues that repeat problems are system patterns not people failures and gives concrete tools: draw a ripple diagram, map containers and differences, plot… | ||
| Who do You Trust - Beware of Your Brain | Linda Rising | 03m |
Claims there are no controlled balanced experiments comparing agile processes to alternatives and that most process decisions rest on anecdotes and persuasive… | ||
| TestLab OST | James Lyndsay, Bart Knaack, Díaz, Hilterscheid | 01m |
Recorded as a jam session, this video captures an improvised, collaborative testing lab where multiple testers riff on problems, swap heuristics and set up… | ||
| The 7 Duties of Great Software Professionals | Jurgen Appelo | 48m |
Seven concrete duties: motivate yourself, direct yourself, educate yourself, measure yourself, connect yourself, brand yourself, improve yourself. Practical… | ||
| Haiku, Hypnosis and Discovery | Liz Keogh | 52m |
Shows how a two-line combo haiku exercise (short phrase + split long phrase) reliably creates a vivid haiku moment where the mind fills missing context; runs a… | ||
| Agile Testers and Test Managers: Now What? | Johanna Rothman | 01h 02m |
Argues that testers must be first-class testers who join requirements, write small scripts, and get tools and training; cites a 2004 wake-up (a VP claiming… | ||
| Stepping Outside | Lasse Koskela | 58m |
Small, precise experiments and role-mixing drive measurable gain: a developer translated the UI into French and Italian with perfect score to unblock sales… | ||
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