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Testing Extreme Programming

ISBN: 0321113551
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 238

Authors: Lisa Crispin, Tip House

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Lisa
• Tip
• Part I: The XP Tester Role
• Chapter 1. An Overview
• Introduction
• Overview of XP
• How XP Solves Testing and Quality Assurance Problems
• Wolves in Sheep s Clothing
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Why XP Teams Need Testers
• Definition of Tester
• The Tester s Contribution, Illustrated
• Shun the Dark Side
• Summary
• Chapter 3. How XP Teams Benefit from Having Testers
• Checks and Balances
• Acceptance Tests versus Unit Tests
• Navigating for XP Projects
• Summary
• Chapter 4. XP Testing Values
• Communication
• Simplicity
• Feedback
• Courage
• Summary
• Chapter 5. Overview of the XP Tester Role
• XP Tester s Bill of Rights
• XP Tester Activities
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Quality and XP
• Defining Quality
• Setting Quality Criteria
• Who Is Responsible for Quality?
• Summary
• Part II: Test Drive through an XP Project
• Chapter 7. User Stories and Release Planning
• The Tester s Role in Up-Front Activities
• Goals of Up-Front Tester Activities
• Summary
• Exercise 1
• Chapter 8. Identifying Hidden Assumptions
• A Process for Finding Hidden Assumptions
• Summary
• Exercise 2
• Chapter 9. Defining High-Level Acceptance Tests
• Basic Acceptance Test Definitions
• Summary
• Exercise 3
• Chapter 10. High-Level Acceptance Test Estimates
• Ways to Estimate Acceptance-Test Effort
• Summary
• Exercise 4
• Chapter 11. Enabling Accurate Estimates during Release Planning
• Why We Care about Estimates
• How You Can Improve Estimate Accuracy
• Summary
• Exercise 5
• Chapter 12. Planning the First Iteration
• Overview of Iteration Planning
• The Tester s Role in Iteration Planning
• Summary
• Exercise 6
• Chapter 13. Defining and Estimating Testing and Test Infrastructure Tasks
• Identifying and Estimating Test Infrastructure Tasks
• Identifying and Estimating Functional and Acceptance Testing Tasks
• A Note on Separate Test Teams
• Summary
• Exercise 7
• Chapter 14. Acceptance Tests and Quality
• Acceptance Test Details
• Internal and External Quality
• Summary
• Exercise 8
• Chapter 15. Nailing Down the Details
• Picking the Customer s Brain (and the Programmers )
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Optional Tests
• Getting Creative
• Lights-Out Test Design
• Summary
• Exercise 9
• Chapter 16. Writing Acceptance Tests
• Executable Tests
• If You Have Trouble Getting Started
• Summary
• Exercise 10
• Chapter 17. Organizing Acceptance Tests
• Version Control of Acceptance Tests
• Executable Test Files
• Organizing Acceptance Tests in Spreadsheets
• Summary
• Exercise 11
• Chapter 18. Test Design and Refactoring
• Establishing the Initial System State
• Tests That Leave the System State Unchanged
• Coupling between Tests
• Summary
• Exercise 12
• Chapter 19. Manual Tests
• Summary
• Exercise 13
• Chapter 20. What?
• Manual Tests Are Unreliable
• Manual Tests Undermine the XP Testing Practice
• Manual Tests Are Divisive
• The Wings-Fall-Off Button
• What If You Have Manual Tests?
• Summary
• Exercise 14
• Chapter 21. Test Automation
• Modular Tests
• Data-Independent Tests
• Self-Verifying Tests
• Summary
• Exercise 15
• Chapter 22. Making Executable Tests Run
• Linking the Executable Test to an Application Test Class
• Defining the Application Test Class
• Calling the Code to be Tested
• Running the Test
• Getting Additional Tests to Run
• Combining Multiple Tests into Test Suites
• Summary
• Exercise 16
• Chapter 23. Running Executable Tests through Other Interfaces
• Code Missed by Direct Calls
• Expanding Coverage of the Executable Tests
• Interfacing to a Test Tool
• Creating an Application Test-Interface Class
• Refactoring the Direct-Call Interface
• Refactoring the Application Test Class
• Creating a Tool-Specific Interface Class
• One Team s Experience with Direct-Call Test Automation
• Summary
• Exercise 17
• Chapter 24. Driving the System with a Test Tool
• WebART Overview
• Main WebART Script
• Login Module
• Validation Criteria
• Summary
• Exercise 18
• Chapter 25. Bugs on the Windshield: Running Acceptance Tests
• How Often Do You Run Acceptance Tests?
• Educating the Customer
• Acceptance Criteria
• Defect Management
• Road Food for Thought
• Summary
• Exercise 19
• Chapter 26. Looking Back for the Future
• Summary
• Exercise 20
• Chapter 27. Keep On Truckin : Completing the XP Road Trip
• Regression Testing
• Catching Up
• Maintenance?
• The Release
• When XP Projects End
• Summary
• Exercise 21
• Part III: Road Hazard Survival Kit
• Chapter 28. Challenges in Testability
• Designing for Testability
• A Real-Life Example
• Summary
• Exercise 22
• Chapter 29. Selecting and Implementing Tools
• Evolving Tools
• Test Tools
• Other Tools Related to Quality
• Choosing an Off-the-Shelf Tool
• Implementing Tools
• Experimenting with Tools
• Summary
• Chapter 30. Project Tune-Ups
• Office Space
• Accessorizing for XP
• Metrics
• Test Environment
• Other Obvious Best Practices
• Additional Tester Duties
• Summary
• Chapter 31. Introducing XP to Your Organization: A Tester s Point of View
• Test Phases and Practices
• Introducing People to the XP Tester Role
• Helping XP Testers Succeed
• XP Testing with Blended Practices
• What If You Don t Have Enough Testers?
• Summary
• Chapter 32. XP for Projects of Unusual Size
• Adjusting XP
• Advance Planning Pays Off
• Working with Customers
• Satisfying Customer Test Documentation Requirements
• Iteration Planning and Execution for Large or Multilocation Projects
• Summary
• Chapter 33. Extreme Testing without Extreme Programming
• Gathering Requirements
• System Design
• Planning and Defining Tests
• Running Tests
• Retrospectives
• Let Worry Be Your Guide
• Summary
• Chapter 34. In Closing: May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
• Answers to Exercises
• Exercise 1 ( Chapter 7 )
• Exercise 2 ( Chapter 8 )
• Exercise 3 ( Chapter 9 )
• Exercise 4 ( Chapter 10 )
• Exercise 5 ( Chapter 11 )
• Exercise 6 ( Chapter 12 )
• Exercise 7 ( Chapter 13 )
• Exercise 8 ( Chapter 14 )
• Exercise 9 ( Chapter 15 )
• Exercise 10 ( Chapter 16 )
• Exercise 11 ( Chapter 17 )
• Exercise 12 ( Chapter 18 )
• Exercise 13 ( Chapter 19 )
• Exercise 14 ( Chapter 20 )
• Exercise 15 ( Chapter 21 )
• Exercise 16 ( Chapter 22 )
• Exercise 17 ( Chapter 23 )
• Exercise 18 ( Chapter 24 )
• Exercise 19 ( Chapter 25 )
• Exercise 20 ( Chapter 26 )
• Exercise 21 ( Chapter 27 )
• Exercise 22 ( Chapter 28 )
• Bibliography
• Afterword