[ANN] Agile Testing Course, Pleasanton, CA, December

[Elisabeth Hendrickson]

I am very excited to announce the first public offering of my 2-day  
experience-based Agile Testing class. This is the same class that I  
have been successfully presenting privately, onsite, for clients for  
the last two years. The 1-day version of this class that I presented  
as a tutorial at the STAREast and STARWest conferences sold out and  
was very well-received.

See https://www.regonline.com/at121008 for information and  
registration, or read on...

WHAT:
     Agile Testing
     a 2-day experience-based class
     with Elisabeth Hendrickson and Dale Emery

(in which there will be lots of exercises, demonstrations, and  
discussions, and absolutely no slideshows, and no long, boring lectures)

WHEN:
     Wednesday and Thursday, Dec 10 and 11, 2008

WHERE:
     Carr America Conference Center
     Pleasanton, California

HOW MUCH:
     $995 if registering on or before Nov 15
     $1295 if registering after Nov 15
     20% group discount if registering 2 or more people simultaneously

Description:

When a software development organization adopts Agile practices, the  
testing practices must become Agile as well. But what does that mean?  
This 2-day experience-based class provides participants with an in-
depth understanding of how testing changes when a team adopts Agile  
methods.

On the first day, we run an in-depth simulation that gives  
participants the opportunity to experience an Agile transition. In the  
simulation, participants drive process changes to increase Agility,  
reflecting and adapting their working agreements to increase  
communication, collaboration, feedback, and visibility. By the end of  
the first day, participants have a clear understanding of the Agile  
values and principles, and what transitioning to Agile means for  
testing.

During the second day we cover concrete Agile Testing practices such  
as Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), Test Driven Development  
(TDD), Agile test automation techniques, and Exploratory Testing.

Space is limited! In order to ensure the class is as interactive and  
experience-based as possible, participation is limited to 25 people.

TOPICS

- The characteristics of a truly Agile team
- Driving development with tests: Acceptance Test Driven Development  
(ATDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Agile test automation practices
- Exploratory Testing on Agile projects
- Lightweight test documentation
- Agile test management practices

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Everyone who is either currently on an Agile team or who has an  
interest in learning how testing is done in Agile. That includes:

- Business Stakeholders such as Scrum Product Owners, XP Customers,  
and business analysts.
- Developers of all kinds including programmers, architects,  
designers, and database specialists.
- QA and Test specialists including testers, test automators, quality  
assurance specialists, quality managers, and quality engineers.
- Managers, Leads, and Coaches, and anyone else managing, leading, or  
coaching the efforts of anyone on an Agile team.

This class is intended to help everyone on an Agile team learn how  
testing activities fit into Agile methods. Because everyone on an  
Agile team typically ends up doing some kind of testing, everyone on  
an Agile team can benefit from this class.

No specific technical knowledge is assumed.*

* It is worth noting, however, that you will see actual, real code on  
day 2. But it's written in Ruby and is highly readable and we are sure  
you'll be able to follow along just fine even if you are not a  
programmer. If you are a programmer and are interested in going into  
the technical details of ATDD and TDD in greater depth than we can  
cover in the class, we are happy to provide more technical detail  
during breaks or after class ends. We love this stuff. We live, eat,  
breathe, and sleep software development. And we are test obsessed. So  
we are really really happy to talk about this stuff.

TO REGISTER

Please visit https://www.regonline.com/at121008

Thanks!

Elisabeth Hendrickson
Quality Tree Software, Inc.