What is Agile Testing? Agile Testing is the practice of testing software continuously and collaboratively throughout an Agile delivery cycle, rather than in a separate phase at the end. Testers, developers, and product owners work together every sprint to define acceptance criteria, automate checks, and catch defects early, so quality is built into the product as it is created. For teams running Scrum or Kanban, it is the difference between shipping fast and shipping fast with confidence.
As organizations move to shorter release cycles and continuous delivery, this program helps your teams embed testing into every sprint and stop quality from becoming a release-day bottleneck. Empower your people with expert-led on-site, off-site, and virtual sessions delivered by Edstellar, a premier corporate training provider serving organizations worldwide. Built around your goals, the program turns Agile Testing skills into lasting capabilities that lift performance across your QA, development, and product teams.
The result is fewer defects reaching production, faster feedback inside each sprint, and releases your stakeholders can trust. Because every cohort is customized to your tools, workflow, and delivery model, your teams apply what they learn to live work immediately, and your organization sees the payoff in cycle time, defect cost, and predictable delivery.

- Plan and run testing activities inside Scrum and Kanban without slowing delivery.
- Use the Agile Testing Quadrants to decide what to test, when, and at which level.
- Write and refine acceptance criteria collaboratively so defects are prevented, not just found.
- Apply exploratory, risk-based, and session-based testing techniques to find high-impact issues fast.
- Track quality with Agile-appropriate metrics and visible test status, not heavy documentation.
- Select and apply the right Agile testing tools to support continuous and automated checks.
- Introduction to Agile Testing
- What Agile Testing is and how it differs from traditional, phase-gated testing
- The whole-team approach to quality and the tester's role in Agile
- Principles of continuous and early testing (shift-left)
- The cost of late defects versus in-sprint quality
- Agile Methodologies
- Core values and principles of the Agile Manifesto
- Scrum, Kanban, and Lean foundations relevant to testers
- Iterative and incremental delivery and what it means for testing
- How testing fits the rhythm of sprints and flow
- Testing in the Agile Team
- The tester's role, mindset, and collaboration in a cross-functional team
- Working with developers and product owners on acceptance criteria
- Definition of Ready and Definition of Done from a quality view
- Pairing, three amigos, and shared ownership of quality
- Tracking Testing Activities
- Making test progress and status visible on the board
- Lightweight test planning and estimation in Agile
- Reporting quality without heavy documentation
- Burndown, flow, and quality signals the team can act on
- Significant Attributes of Agile Testing
- Speed, feedback, and adaptability as testing goals
- Risk-based prioritization under time constraints
- Balancing exploratory testing with automated checks
- Sustaining quality across changing requirements
- Agile Testing Quadrants
- The four quadrants and what each one covers
- Business-facing versus technology-facing tests
- Tests that support the team versus tests that critique the product
- Using the quadrants to plan a balanced test approach
- Agile Testing in Scrum
- Testing activities across the sprint, from planning to review
- In-sprint automation and regression strategy
- Handling testing for stories that span sprints
- Quality in sprint review and retrospective
- Agile Testing Methods
- Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) in practice
- Behaviour-driven development (BDD) and Given, When, Then
- Test-first thinking for developers and testers
- Continuous integration and continuous testing basics
- Agile Testing Techniques
- Exploratory and session-based test management
- Risk-based and experience-based testing
- Test charters and time-boxed exploration
- Combining manual and automated techniques effectively
- Agile Testing Work Products
- Lightweight test artifacts that add value, not overhead
- User stories, acceptance criteria, and test conditions
- Test charters, checklists, and living documentation
- Defect handling and feedback loops in Agile
- Agile Testing in Kanban
- Quality in a flow-based, work-in-progress-limited system
- Testing without fixed iterations
- Managing classes of service and expedited work
- Continuous flow metrics for quality
- Agile Testing Tools
- Tool categories for test management, automation, and CI
- BDD tools (Cucumber, SpecFlow) and where they fit
- Integrating testing into the delivery pipeline
- Choosing tools that match your team's stack and workflow
- Test Engineers
- Quality Assurance Engineers
- Development Team Members
- Scrum Masters
- Product Managers
- Agile Coaches
- Test Analysts
- Software Testers
- Automation Engineers
- Manual Testers
- Test Architects
- DevOps Engineers
Your team needs only a basic familiarity with the software development lifecycle and how their teams currently build and release software. Prior testing or Agile experience helps but is not required, the program meets testers, developers, business analysts, and QA leads where they are and is customized to your tools and delivery model. No coding or automation background is assumed for the core concepts.
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