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Agile and Exploratory Testing

Agile Testing

Jeannitta Andrea, "Envisioning the Next Generation of Functional Testing Tools, IEEE Software, May/June 2007, pages 58-65.

Bach, James, "The Challenge of "Good Enough" Software", Satisfice.com, 1995.

Lisa Crispin and Tip House, Testing Extreme Programming, Addison Wesley, 2003.

Robert Culbertson, Chris Brown and Gary Cobb, Rapid Testing, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002.

Jonathan Kohl, "Conventional Software Testing on a Scrum Team", article on Informit.com, September 30, 2005. A professional tester joins a Scrum team.

Brian Marick, Agile Testing home page.

Brian Marick, "Roadmap for Testing on an Agile Project".

Brian Marick, "Agile Methods and Agile Testing".

Chris McMahon, "Old School Meets New Wave", Better Software Magazine, June 2006, pages 28-32, (on testing middleware). On using scripted automation to do system testing for a message broker implementation and an agile project.

Exploratory Testing

James Bach, "A Low-Tech Testing Dashboard", presentation at Star ’99 East.

James Bach, "General Functionality and Stability Test Procedure".
Document for testing the functionality and stability of a software application for the purpose of certifying it for Windows 2000.

James Bach, "Heuristic Risk-Based Testing", Software Testing and Quality Engineering November 1999.

Jonathan Bach, "Session-Based Test Management", Software Testing and Quality Engineering, November 2000.

James Bach, "Boost Your Testing Superpowers", Star ’99 East.
Simple and cheap testing tools.

James Bach, "What is Exploratory Testing", Stickyminds column .

James Bach, Rapid Software Testing, course notes, Fall 2002.

James Bach, "Heuristic Test Strategy Model", April 2003 .

James Bach, "Heuristics of Software Testability", April 2003 .

James Bach, "Exploratory Testing Explained", April 2003.

James Bach, "Reasons to Repeat Tests", 2004.

Jonathan Bach, "Testing in Session: A Method to Measure Exploratory Testing", Washington Software Association QA SIG, May 13, 2003.
Slides of a presentation.

Michael Bolton, "Master of Your Domain", 2006.
Other articles there as well

Elisabeth Hendrickson, "Rigorous Exploratory Testing", April 19, 2006.

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