Janet Gregory and I just finished the draft of our new Agile Testing book, to be published by Pearson late 2008/early 2009. It's focused on the role of a tester on an agile team. Please visit www.agiletester.ca , where you can find sample rough draft chapters.
Janet and I are doing a tutorial at Agile 2008 called "The Tester Who Came In from the Cold". I'm also helping Patrick Wilson-Welsh with a tutorial on Inverting the Test Pyramid Right Side Up (because most of us start with it upside down!)
I just got back from Better Software where I did a tutorial on "An Iteration in the Life of an Agile Tester", along with a track presentation "Ten Principles of an Agile Tester". See my blog for some of my experiences there.
I'll be at STARWEST doing a tutorial and a track presentation also.
Current book recommendations:
Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg, forewords by Mike Cohn and Jeff Sutherland. Available on Amazon.
The Art of Agile Development by James Shore and Shane Warden does a great job of explaining all aspects of agile development, and has good sections on testing including Exploratory Testing by Elisabeth Hendrickson.
Articles and Other Stuff
- To Track or Not To track, Better Software, June 2007
- "An Agile Tool Selection Strategy for Web Testing Tools", Methods and Tools, Summer 2007
- Driving Software Quality: How Test-Driven Development Impacts Software Quality", IEEE Software, Vol. 23, No. 6 November/December 2006
- My Better Software "Last Word" column, "The Democratization of Test Tools", July 2006
- My Better Software article "Hiring an Agile Tester" with Joe Yakich, March 2006
- Stickynotes for "Hiring an Agile Tester"
- My Better Software "Tool Look" article on Canoo WebTest
- Stickynotes for my Tool Look column on Canoo WebTest in November 2005 Issue of Better Software
- "Driving Development with Customer Tests" Article in Summer 2005 Issue of Methods and Tools
- Interview with Magnus Lladas of Citerus on testing and XP.
- Radio interview along with James Newkirk, on Danish radio, during JAOO in 2004.
- My Tutorial "Getting what you need" for XP/Agile Universe 2004
- Review of our book in UnixReview.com!
- Link to my Sept. 2003 article in Better Software, "You Don't Say"
- Article in Summer 2003 Issue of Methods and Tools
- Notes from Introducing Agile Technical Exchange at ADC
- Agile Development Conference
- My Agile Testing Tutorial for XP Universe and Agile Development Conference 2003
- "Testing Extreme Programming" on Amazon.com
- "Extreme Rules of the Road: How an XP Tester Can Drive Success", STQE Magazine, July 2000
- "QA Consciousness Raising", STQE Magazine, October 2002
- XP Tester Bill of Rights from Testing Extreme Programming
- Methods and Tools Online Magazine
- Link to Roundtable on XP Testing on StickyMinds.com
Recommended Books
"Collaboration Explained : Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders" by Jean Tabaka fills a big gap in understanding how to help agile teams succeed. Book Description on Amazon
"Agile Planning and Estimating" by Mike Cohn is a must-read book for anyone involved in software development - agile or not! Book Description on Amazon
And whatever you do, have fun doing it!
