Lisa Crispin has worked as a tester on Agile teams for the past ten years, and enjoys sharing her experiences via writing, presenting, teaching and participating in agile testing communities around the world. Lisa was named one of the 13 Women of Influence in testing by Software Test & Performance magazine. For more about Lisa\u2019s work, visit www.lisacrispin.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201dWhen I was a tester on a traditional team that did not automate unit tests, I spent 80 % of my time finding unit-level bugs. I never had time to do the important exploratory testing that would identify serious issues or gaps in features. My current team has automated 100 % \u00a0of our regression tests. We know within minutes if a check-in breaks a unit test, and within 45 minutes whether any of the higher-level functional and GUI tests have found a regression failure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lisa Crispin praises the luxury of time to be able to make her own unique contributions to the product. In her view, good testers are good at helping customers articulate examples of the behavior they want, turning those into acceptance tests, and keeping an eye on the \u2019big picture\u2019 as the team delivers in small increments and short iterations. \u201dExploratory testing is a skill that few programmers I know have mastered,\u201d Lisa says. \u201dCollaborating with programmers to get regression tests automated frees our time to make these essential \u00a0contributions.\u201d So, in summary: what are the benefits from adopting agile testing practices? \u201dWhen the whole team takes responsibility for quality, and adheres to the mantra \u2019no story is done until it\u2019s tested\u2019, they will keep technical debt to a manageable level, deliver the features the customer actually wants, and keep defects out of production. The whole team reaps the intrinsic rewards of continually improving and doing their best work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lisa Crispin is an Agile testing practitioner and coach as well as the author of the book Agile Testing. In this article she explains the nuts and bolts of Agile testing to Kristoffer Nordstr\u00f6m of Softhouse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,83,55],"tags":[18,6,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leanmagazine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}