The document introduces various agile test tools. It begins by explaining how agile methodologies like Scrum differ from traditional development in requiring testing throughout the process. It then defines terms like test-driven development, acceptance testing, and behavior-driven development. The bulk of the document describes test tools in two categories: those that describe requirements and tests using domain-specific languages, and those for executing tests. Tools covered include RSpec, FIT, FitNesse, Cucumber, Robot Framework, Selenium, and others. Advantages of agile test tools are discussed, along with challenges to adopting new tools and techniques. Links and books for further resources are provided at the end.

1. Agile Test Toolsan introductionLTB Talk, 2011-05-23

2. Speaker23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools2Agile Practitioner& Software tester

3. IndexIntentionIdea/ Background of "agile test tools"Definitions & ExplanationsTools(Dis)advantagesEssenceLinks & Books Questions / Discussions23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools3

4. IntentionThe intention of this talk is toPresent & explain (a selection of) agile test tools to the LU tester´s communityShow how test tools support the agile tester The intention is not to give a complete overview of agile testing methodologies and tools.23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools4

5. The classic approachone phase happens after the othertesting (test execution) by QA-people is mainly done in only one phase23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools5

6. Agile/ ScrumRoles in Scrum: Product Owner, Team, Scrum MasterTesting supports during the whole process, therefore test tools need to handle this23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools6

7. Agile/ ScrumSpecial roles (developer, tester, architect, DB admin) aren´t bound to specific people, different people are sharing roles, therefor also testing is a role, that can be filled by everybodymore people work with the same tooltools need to support more aspects then "just" testing23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools7

8. Classic vs. Agile“Agile teams have particular needs for automated tools that are not well served by traditional record-and-playback GUI drivers. As requirements specifications, functional tests must be readable: clear, succinct, and expressed in the language of the business domain. As an automated safety net, the tests must be maintainable: built with reusable domain specific testing language components, easy to change as the requirements change.”http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/aa-ftt23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools8

9. Classic vs. AgileNot a contradiction to "classical approach“ test early insoftwarelifecycle reduces cost23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools9

10. Characteristics of Agile Test ToolsHaving tests documented as manual tests and scripted tests is double workWaste! Use one tool forrequirements,tests, automated tests &test results23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools10

11. DefinitionsTDD - Test Driven Development write a (failing) testwrite code to make the test passrefactormostly on unit test level Acceptance TestTest to determine if the requirements of a specification are met. ATDD - Acceptance TDDImplementation of a requirement is driven by a set of automated, executable acceptance tests. 23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools11

12. TDD & ATDD23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools12

13. DefinitionsBDD - Behaviour Driven Development Behaviour-driven development (BDD) is an evolution of test-driven development (TDD) and acceptance-test driven development, and is intended to make these practices more accessible and intuitive to newcomers and experts alike.It shifts the vocabulary from being test-based to behaviourbased,andpositions itself as a design philosophy.BDD "describes a cycle of interactions with well-defined outputs, resulting in the delivery of working, tested software."23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools13

14. ToolsTwo groups (borders are blurred)Requirements are described in DSL/ special syntax/ natural language and executed as tests through fixture code.Tools for executing tests23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools14

15. RSpecTDD RSpecsupports in doing the TDD part of BDD, focusing on the documentation and design aspects of TDD. http://relishapp.com/rspec23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools15

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17. FITFIT is an acceptance testing framework originally developed for Java by Ward Cunningham. One of the central ideas of FIT was to promote collaboration and allow customers and business analysts to write and verify tests. FIT makes it easy to run tests, but does not provide a way to create them. The original idea was to write tests in Word, Excel, or any tool that can output HTML. http://www.fitnesse.info/fitnesse23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools17

18. FitNesseAutomated Acceptance Testing "web-based collaboration tool for software acceptance testing" (http://www.fitnesse.info/fitnesse) "is a web wiki front-end to FIT" Tests are described as tables in a wiki http://fitnesse.org/, http://www.fitnesse.info23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools18

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20. CucumberBDD "Cucumberis a toolthatexecutes plain-textfunctional descriptions as automated tests." (https://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/wiki/)Uses a business-readable DSLSUTs in Ruby, Java, .NET, Python, multiple webtestingframeworks... integrates in CI-environments http://cukes.info/23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools20

21. CucumberDescribe behaviour in plain textWrite a step definition in RubyRun and watch it failWrite code to make the step passRun again and see the step passRepeat 2-5 until green like a cuke23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools21

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23. Robot FrameworkAcceptance testing and ATDD Keyword-/data-/BDD-driven "Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development." https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools23

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26. Selenium"Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms.“ "Selenium...runs in many browsers and operating systemscan be controlled by many programming languages and testing frameworks." http://seleniumhq.org/23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools26

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29. OthersWatir (and others)xUnit... 23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools29

30. AdvantagesInvolving tests early in the software lifecycle process No wasted efforts for documenting requirements, test cases & automated tests Creating (automated) regression tests along the wayEasy to collaborate/ integrate customers Business Experts, POs/PMs ...23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools30

31. Hurdles to takeNew tool to learnAlso non technical people need to learn a tool language/ syntaxTester need technical skillsAll of the discussed tools should be integrated into the CI systemNot everything can be tested automaticallyManual testing is still needed23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools31

32. Links & Bookshttp://code.google.com/p/robotframework/http://www.concordion.org/http://cukes.info/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_Driven_Developmenthttp://www.fitnesse.info/fitnessehttp://fitnesse.org/http://relishapp.com/rspechttp://seleniumhq.org/http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/how-to-sell-bdd-to-the-businesshttp://www.slideshare.net/tcmak/atdd-in-practicehttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/aa-ftt/http://testobsessed.com/2008/12/08/acceptance-test-driven-development-atdd-an-overview/23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools32

33. Ressources Agile PartnerCorporate: www.agilepartner.netTeam Blog: blog.agilepartner.netPersonal Blog: agile-and-testing.chriss-baumann.deAgile Interest Group Luxembourgwww.aiglu.org23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools33

34. CONTACTSThank You23 May 2011LTB – Agile Testing Tools34