Agile BI: Test Automation and Test-Driven Database Development Training in South Africa

Agile testing involves three key elements: tools and technology, principles and practices, and mindset and behaviors. This course will introduce you to agile testing principles, test-first development practices, the importance of testing as a front-end development driver rather than a back-end quality assurance activity, and effective open source database testing tools. This class will also introduce the mindset that testing and quality is everyone’s job, and that each person on an agile analytics team has a part in testing.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

• Data warehouse architects, designers, developers, and administrators
• Business intelligence practitioners
• Business analysts and product owners
• Data warehousing project managers

• How to keep a continuous focus on quality
• Agile testing framework versus conventional testing
• Database testing techniques
• Principles for developing robust test suites
• Open source testing tools such as Fitnesse/DbFit and Cucumber
• How to version control your test suites
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Testing roles and responsibilities
• Writing good Acceptance Criteria for DW/BI user stories

1. Agile Overview

• Agile Manifesto & Guiding Principles

2. Agile Testing Values & Principles

• Perspectives and Mindset
• Whole Team Approach
• Attitudes and Culture
• Customer Collaboration

3. Agile BI Testing Overview

• Conventional Testing Approach
• Agile Demands Something Different
• Scrummerfall Anti-Pattern
• Testing Feedback Loop
• Agile Testing Model

4. Database Testing Strategies

• Critical Testing Points
• Component Under Test
• Test Data
• Test Queries
• Data Testing Tactics
• Testing Type 2 Dimensions
• When Test Data Grows Stale

5. Test Automation

• Test Automation Pyramid
• Automation Approach
• Sandbox Infrastructure
• DW/BI Test Automation Tools

6. Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria

• Definition of Done
• Acceptance Criteria
• Acceptance Criteria Process
• What Happens if a Story Isn't Accepted?
• Example BI User Story and Acceptance Criteria

7. Story Testing

• Story Testing Example
• Test-Driven Development
• Story-Test-Driven Development
• Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
• BDD Tools