Janet Gregory
Canada, @DragonFire Inc.

Janet Gregory is the co-author, with Lisa Crispin, of Agile Testing: Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). Based in Calgary, Alberta, she specializes in helping teams build quality system, and her greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes. Over the past ten years, she has helped to introduce development agile practices into companies as tester or coach, and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. Her focus is working with the business users and testers to understand their role in agile projects. She has partnered with developers on her agile teams to implement successful test automation solutions.

Janet is a frequent speaker at agile and testing software conferences in North America and Europe. She’s a regular contributor to the North American agile testing community.

Talk: “Seven Key Success Factors for Agile Testing Success”.

Agile development approaches present unique challenges for testers and test
teams. Working in short iterations, often with limited written requirements,
agile development teams can leave traditional testers behind. Common
testing-related activities such as user acceptance testing, testing
inter-product relationships, and installation testing need different
approaches to fit into agile projects.

Janet Gregory explains seven key factors for testing success within agile
projects that you can also apply to more traditional methodologies. Using a
whole team approach and adopting an agile testing mindset are among the
important components of a successful agile testing strategy. Learn how to
overcome cultural and organizational obstacles and barriers to success in
areas such as test automation. Discover the seven critical factors that
provide a foundation for building your team’s focus on quality and that
deliver maximum value to your business, and some of the pitfalls and perils
that a team can encounter.