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The Agile Testing Body of Knowledge (ATBOK)

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The ATBOK consists of six areas. These are detailed below.

  1. Agile Development Methodologies
    1. The values, principles and philosophies that underpin Agility
    2. The Agile Manifesto
    3. Contrasting Agility with other software development methods
    4. Agile vs. traditional incremental approaches
    5. Agile Methods
    6. Roles and responsibilities in the agile team
    7. The team approach in agile
    8. The iterative and incremental lifecycle
    9. Continuous Integration
    10. Progressive requirements elaboration
    11. Iterative planning and adaptation
    12. Incremental product delivery
    13. Coaching self-directed teams
    14. Agile project monitoring
    15. Agile and process improvement
  1. Agile Requirement Exploration and Requirement Management
    1. The role of requirements in software
    2. Requirements vs. Scenarios
    3. Functional vs. non-functional requirements
    4. Releases and Iteration planning
    5. Product and Iteration backlogs
    6. Burndown Charts
    7. Managing requirement changes
    8. User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
    9. Use Cases
  1. Agile Test Design and Test Execution
    1. Acceptance Criteria
    2. Exploratory Testing
    3. Ad hoc Testing
    4. Structured testing
    5. Designing Tests based on User Stories Acceptance Criteria
    6. Designing tests based on Use Cases
    7. Writing scripts
    8. Manual test execution
    9. Automated test execution
    10. Bug reporting
    11. Ad hoc testing
    12. Defect Management
    13. Regression testing
  1. Agile Test Management
    1. Acceptance Criteria
    2. Types of Agile testing
      1. Development Level Testing
        1. Unit and component Testing
        2. Test Driven Development (TDD)
      2. Feature Level Testing
        1. Story Testing
        2. Scenario Testing
        3. Use Case Testing
        4. Behavior-driven Development (BDD)
      3. System Level Testing
      4. User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
    3. Test Strategies and Planning
      1. Release level (Theme) planning
      2. Iteration Kickoff level planning
      3. Light weight test plan
    4. Test Planning
    5. Scheduling
    6. Resources
    7. Risk Management
    8. Effort estimation
      1. Story estimation
      2. Feature estimation
    9. Test metrics
  1. Agile Test Automation
    1. The importance of automation in Agile projects
    2. The Test Automation Pyramid
    3. What we should automate and what we should not
    4. How to automate when GUI is not ready
    5. How to automate when no baseline test cases are available
    6. Continuous integration
    7. Automating unit and component tests
    8. Test-Driven Development
    9. Automating feature testing
    10. Automating system and integration testing
    11. Automating regression testing
    12. Automating non-functional testing
    13. Load and performance testing
    14. Lightweight Automation Test Plan
    15. Automation frameworks
      1. Unit and Component testing frameworks
      2. Feature and Story testing frameworks
  1. Collaboration and Team Dynamics Tools and Techniques
    1. Collaboration procedures
    2. Tester/Developer collaboration
    3. Tester/Customer collaboration
    4. Collaboration and communication between distributed teams
    5. Collaborative reviews
      1. Story and feature reviews
      2. Test Reviews
      3. Use Case Reviews
    6. Collaboration tools
References:
  1. Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, By: Lisa Crispin; Janet Gregory, Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
  2. User Stories Applied, By: Mike Cohn, Publisher Pearson education, Inc.
  3. Exploratory Software Testing by James A. Whittaker, Addison-Wesley
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