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More Agile Testing: is it worth reading?
The sequel, covering what the first book left out: scaling, distributed teams, and testing beyond the functional.
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- published
- 2014
- key ideas
- 3
- reading path
- 1
More Agile Testing
Learning Journeys for the Whole Team
by Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9780321967053
Useful when you are: Senior / lead, Manager
Verdict
Should you read it?
Read it if
You have read the first book, or you already work this way, and you are now hitting the scaling and non-functional questions it did not cover.
Skip it if
You are new to agile testing. Start with Agile Testing Condensed, then this. Reading this first is confusing because it assumes the first book.
The argument
What it argues
The follow-up addresses the questions the first book raised and did not answer. How testing works across several teams rather than one. How distributed and offshore teams handle the collaboration the approach depends on. How performance, security and accessibility fit into an iterative cycle rather than being deferred to a phase that no longer exists.
It also covers the testing role itself more directly: what a tester career looks like in an agile organisation, how testing skills are developed, and what happens to testers whose work was predominantly manual regression.
Structured as learning journeys with contributed experience reports rather than as a single argument, which makes it a better reference than a read-through.
Key ideas
Ideas worth taking from it
- 01
Testing in scaled agile
The hard problems move to the boundaries between teams, where integration, end-to-end journeys and shared environments belong to nobody in particular.
- 02
Non-functional testing in iterations
Performance, security and accessibility attached to the stories where they matter rather than deferred to a hardening phase, which is the usual reason they get dropped entirely.
- 03
The changing tester role
What happens to a testing career when manual regression is automated, and what the remaining work actually is.
Criticism
What has dated, and what it gets wrong
The experience-report structure makes it uneven, since contributed sections vary considerably in quality and depth. It is also a difficult book to read straight through, and works better consulted on a specific question.
Reading paths
On our reading paths
From tester to test lead
Book 2 of 5 · Moving into a lead role
Picks up where Agile Testing stops, with the problems of leading testing across several teams, distributed groups and organisational change.
1. Perfect Software- 2. More Agile Testing (this book)
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