Test Retreat

More Agile Testing > Investigative Testing

This is digitalised collection of testing resources created and published by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory in their book “More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team“. For more details on their work, visit http://agiletester.ca.

Already digitalised and checked parts: Introduction, Learning For Better Testing, Planning, Testing Business Value. Comming soon: Test Automation, What Is Your Context?, Agile Testing in Practice.

Part V: Investigative Testing

Books

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• Steve Krug, Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems, New Riders, 2009.
• Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 3rd Edition, New Riders, 2014.
• Mike Talks, The Software Minefield, LeanPub, 2012.
• James Whittaker, Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours and Techniques to Guide Test Design, Addison-Wesley, 2009.

Articles, Blog Posts, Slide Decks, and Websites

• Bach, Jon, “Session-Based Test Management,” Software Testing and Quality Engineering magazine, now Better Software magazine, 2000.
• Bach, Jon, “Testing in Session: How to Measure Exploratory Testing,” Quardev Laboratories, 2004.
• Bolton, Michael, “ Of Testing Tours and Dashboards,” 2009.
• Eliot, Seth, “A to Z Testing in Production: TiP Methodologies, Techniques and Examples at STPCon 2012,” 2012.
• Eliot, Seth, “Do It in Production,” 2013.
• Francino, Yvette, “Six Tours for Exploratory Testing the Business District of Your Application,” Search Software Quality, 2009.
• Gärtner, Markus, “Pomodoro Testing,” 2011.
• Gilb, Tom, and Kai, “Requirements: The Foundation for Successful Project Management”.
• Harty, Julian, “Trinity Testing,” 2010.
• Hendrickson, Elisabeth, “The Two Sides of Software Testing: Checking and Exploring,” Agile Connection, 2009.
• Hussman, David, “Agile Journeys,” 2009.
• Hussman, David, “Cutting an Agile Groove: A Free Educational Video Series for Newbies and Practitioners,” 2011.
• Jamie (no last name), “Behind the Scenes: Highrise Marketing Site A/B Testing Part 1,” 2011.
• Kaner, Cem, “Testing Tours: Research for Best Practices?”, 2011.
• Kelly, Michael D., “Touring Heuristic,” 2005.
• Knight, Adam P., “The Thread of an Idea: Adopting a Thread-Based Approach to Exploratory Testing,” 2011.
• Knight, Adam P., “Fractal Exploratory Testing,” 2013.
• Kohavi, Ron, Thomas Crook, and Roger Longbotham, “Online Experimentation at Microsoft,” 2009.
• Lambert, Rob, “Managing Exploratory Testing,” 2013.
• Lorang, Noah, “Behind the Scenes: A/B Testing Part 2: How We Test,” 2011.
• Lyndsay, James, “Adventures in Session-Based Testing,” 2003.
• Lyndsay, James, “Why Exploration Has a Place in Any Strategy,” 2006.
• Lyndsay, James, “Testing in an Agile Environment,” 2007.
• Lyndsay, James, “Tools for Exploratory Testing,” 2008.
• Margolis, Michael, “Get Better Data from User Studies: 16 Interviewing Tips,” 2012.
• McKinney, Andrew, “Remote Artist Collaboration,” 2013.
• McMillan, Darren, accessibility testing blog posts, 2012.
• Miller, Evan, “How Not to Run an A/B Test,” 2010.
• Morville, Peter, “User Experience Design,” 2004.
• Nguyen, Buu, “Exploratory Testing with qTrace 2.0,” 2012.
• Nordstrom, “Nordstrom Innovation Lab: Sunglass iPad App Case Study,” 2011.
• Patton, Jeff “Pragmatic Personas,” 2010.
• Ries, Eric, “Getting Started with Split Testing,” 2008.
• Ries, Eric, “The One-Line Split Test, or How to A/B All the Time,”2008.
• Shaulis, Carl, “A/B Testing Experience Report”, 2014.
• Traynor, Des, “An Interview with Andy Budd,” Intercom, 2011.
• Whittaker, James, “ACC Explained,”  2011.
• Whittaker, James, “Exploratory Testing Tours,” Microsoft, 2012.
• Wikipedia, “Contextual Inquiry,” 2013.
• Wikipedia, “Software Testing,” 2014.