Holistic Testing: Weave Quality into Your Product
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Holistic Testing: Weave Quality into Your Product

About the Book

This book is about the Holistic Testing Model and how to apply it to develop a quality and testing strategy for the whole team. It is an extension of our previous mini-book with more depth and examples.

About the Authors

Janet Gregory
Janet Gregory

Janet Gregory is an agile testing coach and process consultant with DragonFire Inc. She is the co-author with Lisa Crispin of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), and More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley 2014), the Live Lessons Agile Testing Essentials video course, and “Agile Testing for the Whole Team” 3-day training course.

Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testing practices are necessary to develop good quality products. She works with teams to transition to agile development and teaches agile testing courses worldwide. She contributes articles to publications and enjoys sharing her experiences at conferences and user group meetings around the world, and her peers voted as the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person in 2015. 

For more about Janet’s work and her blog, visit https://janetgregory.ca or https://agiletester.ca You can also follow her on twitter @janetgregoryca. Together with Lisa Crispin, she has founded the Agile Testing Fellowship to grow a community of practitioners who care about quality. Check out https://agiletestingfellow.com  to find out more about courses and membership. 

Lisa Crispin
Lisa Crispin

Lisa has been spreading agile joy to the testing world and testing joy to the agile world for two decades. Her current interests include helping teams succeed with continuous delivery and deployment. She lives with her husband, donkeys, cats and dogs in beautiful Vermont.

Table of Contents

      • Note
      • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction
    • Section 1: Introduction to quality
    • Chapter 1: Quality
      • What is quality?
      • Quality definitions
      • Approaches to quality
      • Final thoughts on quality
    • Chapter 2: Whole-team approach to quality
      • Organizational level
      • Working towards quality objectives
      • Getting the whole team involved
      • Using the Agile Testing Quadrants as a thinking tool
    • Chapter 3: Overview of the Holistic Testing Model
      • Stages of the Holistic Testing Model
      • Summary
    • Section 2: Building a quality and testing strategy
    • Chapter 4: Building in quality using the left side of the Holistic Testing Model
      • Discover
      • Plan
      • Understand (at the story level)
      • Build
      • Summary
    • Chapter 5: Checking what you built using the right side of the Holistic Testing Model
      • Deploy
      • Release
      • Observe and Learn
    • Chapter 6: Building quality and test strategies
      • Levels of test strategies
      • Building a test strategy for a new feature example
      • Summary
    • Section 3: Sustaining a quality culture
    • Chapter 7: How leadership and culture impact quality
      • Leadership and Culture
      • Leadership and communication
      • Support for quality
      • Influencing culture
      • Summary
    • Chapter 8: Assessing quality
      • Measuring product quality
      • Measuring quality practices
      • Quality practices assessment
      • Summary
    • Resources for further learning
    • About the Authors

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