Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction
The authors: Janet Gregory & Lisa Crispin
Collaborative testing practices that occur continuously, from inception to delivery and beyond, supporting frequent delivery of value for our customers. Testing activities focus on building quality into the product, using fast feedback loops to validate our understanding. The practices strengthen and support the idea of whole-team responsibility for quality.
This is the authors’ definition of Agile Testing. To me, the biggest differentiator from other testing definitions is that this one promotes to actively improve quality rather than only inform on the status of quality.
When the whole team is responsible for quality of the product as well as quality of the process, each team member needs to be proactive in solving problems.
Quality coaches might educate, prepare or motivate team members to become proactive.
There are many things to consider around your product domain. It is not only the software you are testing; it is the product that your end users depend on.
I find this advice needs to hold true for anyone working in software development.
