Kari Kakkonen from Knowit to Run an Agile Tester Workshop at TestCon Moscow 2018 on April 17th

Julkaistu 28 helmi 2018

TestCon Moscow 2018 is the leading event primarily aimed at Software Testers and Test Analysts, QA Engineers, Developers and anyone willing to learn best practices and make their contribution to the smoother software development cycle and quality. The conference provides an excellent platform to keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends, exchange experiences and benefit from networking opportunities.

Kari Kakkonen from Knowit will be running an Agile Tester workshop at TestCon Moscow. The course is intended for IT professionals involved in Software Testing in agile projects.

The workshop talks about Agile Software Development and Testing bringing up main points of how testing happens in agile approaches and where it fits in different agile approaches. The use of automated and manual testing, typical testing approaches born in agile and general testing approaches that apply to agile context are also discussed,

Slides and exercises will alternate during the course day, giving participants a chance to apply the content immediately. Roughly half of the course is exercise time.

THE AGENDA

  • The Fundamentals of Agile Software Development
  • Aspects of Agile Approaches (XP, Kanban, Scrum)
  • Exercise: User story writing and review
  • Fundamental Agile Testing Principles, Practices and Processes
  • Exercise: Roles and skills needed in Agile Team
  • Agile Testing Methods
  • Exercise: Tester role in Scrum team
  • Assessing Quality Risks and Estimating Test Effort
  • Exercise: Products risks
  • Exercise: Estimation
  • Techniques in Agile Projects
  • Exercise: Exploratory testing
  • Tools in Agile Projects


THE OBJECTIVES

After completing the course you can handle the basic terminology of agile testing and are familiar with methods and techniques in agile projects. You know different agile testing tools and are aware of what testing tools can achieve. You know where to find more information about agile testing

ABOUT THE TRAINER

Mr. Kari Kakkonen has M.Sc. in Industrial Management with a Minor in Information Technology from Aalto University. He has also studied in University of Wisconsin-Madison in United States. He has ISTQB Expert Level Test Management Full, ISTQB Agile Tester, Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist and DASA DevOps Fundamentals certificates, and works mostly with agile testing, lean, test automation and DevOps. He has been working with testing tool implementations, software development and testing processes, software development and testing projects, consulting, and training since 1996. He has worked for various industries, including banking, telecom, embedded software, public sector, commerce.

Kari is Treasurer of ISTQB, Chairman of Finnish Software Testing Board FiSTB, Kari has been included in IT–magazine “Tivi” 100 most influential people listing. Kari is also the co-author of the Agile Testing Foundations –book.

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