The Mind of the Agile Tester

The move from traditional tester to agile tester can be "extreme" (bad pun intended). Join experienced agile coach and tester Bob Galen to explore the key skill areas, both hard and soft, that testers need to adjust in order to thrive on an agile team. Previously learned techniques need to be re-honed or adapted while testers acquire new skills and participate in adapted processes. And another fundamental change is required-the very mind of the agile tester must change! Testers must move from an independent checking role to become the team's key quality advocates across all aspects of development. For example, rather than simply verifying requirements, testers now need to work with business stakeholders to elicit and improve the requirements. Functional and manual system testers need to significantly broaden their skills across all aspects of software testing-unit, integration, acceptance-as well as performance, security, and other non-functional testing. In agile, everything shifts and changes for traditional testers.