Chapter 1. An Agile Team’s Test Automation Journey: The First Year

Lisa Crispin

Look at “How to Read This Book” (page xxxiii) and “Reflections on the Case Studies” (page 1) for an overview of all chapters.

Lisa Crispin describes, in her very engaging style, what happened when an agile team decided to automate their testing. Given Lisa’s expertise in agile, you will not be surprised to see that this team really was agile in practice. One of the interesting things about this project is that everyone on the team (which was fairly small) was involved in the automation. Not only did they excel in agile development, they also developed the automation in an agile way—and they succeeded. Agile development was not the only component of this team’s success; ...

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