Need of Agile software development, agile context– Manifesto, Principles, Methods, Values, Roles, Artifacts, Stakeholders, and challenges. Business benefits of software agility.
Fundamentals of Agile Process: Introduction and background - Agile Manifesto and Principles - Stakeholders and Challenges - Overview of Agile Development Models: Scrum - Extreme Programming - Feature Driven Development – Crystal – Kanban - and Lean Software Development.
Agile design practices, Role of design Principles, Need and significance of Refactoring, Refactoring Techniques, Continuous Integration, Automated build tools, Version control; Agility and Quality Assurance: Agile Interaction Design, Agile approach to Quality Assurance, Test Driven Development, Pair programming: Issues and Challenges.
Agile design practices, Role of design Principles, Need and significance of Refactoring, Refactoring Techniques, Continuous Integration, Automated build tools, Version control; Agility and Quality Assurance: Agile Interaction Design, Agile approach to Quality Assurance, Test Driven Development, Pair programming: Issues and Challenges.
The Agile lifecycle and its impact on testing, Test driven development– Acceptance tests and verifying stories, writing a user acceptance test, Developing effective test suites, Continuous integration, Code refactoring. Risk based testing, Regression tests, Test automation.
Reference Book:
1. Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory, “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”, International edition, Addison Wesley. 2. Alistair Cockburn, “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley
Text Book:
1. Ken Schawber, Mike Beedle, “Agile Software Development with Scrum”, International Edition, Pearson. 2. Robert C. Martin, “Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns and Practices”, First International Edition, Prentice Hall.
