Agile Testing Fellow

Agile Testing Principles

September 20, 2026

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Collaboration, Holistic Testing

In this newsletter, we’ll revisit our agile testing principles that we published in our first book, Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams: - Provide continuous feedback - Deliver value to the customer ...

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AI, holistic testing

AI Accountability

July 29, 2026

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
AI, Holistic Testing

A while ago, one of our readers commented: “Something that always gets missed or ignored when talking about AI is accountability, it's not really possible to hold an AI accountable? so who takes accountability for the mistakes the AI inevitab...

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AI, GenAI, holistic testing, LLM

A holistic approach to "spec-driven development"

June 16, 2026

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
AI

A common phrase we hear in the context of AI-assisted development is "spec-driven development" or SDD. There are many definitions of SDD floating around. Here is a good one from Birgitta Böckeler: Spec-driven development means writing a “sp...

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BDD, holistic testing

DORA and AI Capabilities

April 29, 2026

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
AI, Collaboration

Using GenAI / LLM tools is becoming the norm for all aspects of software development, including coding, testing, and platform engineering. The team at DORA used the outcomes of their 2025 research on AI-assisted software development to create an ...

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holistic testing

Why we now say holistic testing vs. agile testing

March 11, 2026

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Agile, DevOps, Holistic Testing, Quality

Yesterday, a LinkedIn connection started a conversation with Janet. He wanted to learn about agile and how to start. It started Janet thinking so we decided to look at the question more deeply since it’s not an easy one to answer, and testing is ...

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DevOps, quality, testing

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

January 12, 2025

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Collaboration, Holistic Testing, Testing

A question we get once in a while (though less often than in the past), is about UAT (user acceptance testing). People wonder how it fit into an agile cadence – especially when the feature spans more than one or two iterations. User Acce...

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collaboration, testing

Fostering collaboration with ensemble testing

July 02, 2024

Janet Gregory
Collaboration

In our Holistic Testing courses, we talk a lot about the importance of collaboration. If your organization has more of a solo work culture, it can be hard to encourage more collaborative practices such as pairing and working in an ensemble (the n...

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collaboration, Learning, testing

Sharing ideas to spark conversations

April 29, 2024

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Collaboration, Learning and Improvement, Visualization

When we work in isolation, we risk losing the best part of an idea. By sharing our ideas – even the half-baked ones – we can spark conversations that grow them into something valuable for ourselves and our community. We’ve heard from leading prac...

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collaboration, sharing

Meet our instructors: Gáspár Nagy

January 17, 2024

Lisa Crispin
Holistic Testing

This is the second in our series introducing some of the highly experienced practitioners who teach our Holistic Testing courses. Some of you are already familiar with Gáspár Nagy. Janet and Lisa had the good fortune to meet Gáspár at testing con...

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holistic testing, Learning, instructors

Success Factor #2: Adopt an agile mindset

November 30, 2023

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Holistic Testing

In our series on the 7 key factors for agile and holistic testing success, we’ve worked our way up to number 2: Adopt an agile testing mindset. In our global testing community, some people do not know what we mean by ‘mindset’. It’s all about att...

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success factors

Meet our instructors: Prathan Dansakulcharoenkit

November 28, 2023

Lisa Crispin
Holistic Testing

Meet the Agile Testing Fellowship instructors - a blog post series! Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin and José Diaz co-founded the Agile Testing Fellowship to help teams and practitioners around the world learn to succeed with testing in agile...

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holistic testing

Figuring out the next steps in your team's quality journey with QPAM

August 16, 2023

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Learning and Improvement, Quality

Since you’re reading this blog post, we hope you and your team are getting engaged in testing activities throughout the holistic testing loop. (And if you aren’t familiar with it yet, please check out our posts on the holistic testing model.) We ...

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quality, QPAM

Learning and Adapting in the Holistic Testing Model

July 01, 2022

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Collaboration, Holistic Testing

Agile teams continually learn and apply those learnings to adapt their product and process. There’s often a tendency for teams to release a new feature and then move on to building the next new feature. This means missing a huge opportunity to le...

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holistic testing, Learning

The difference between monitoring and observability

May 23, 2022

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
DevOps, Holistic Testing, Visualization

We’ve had people ask us, “Is observability really about monitoring”, so we decided that was a good topic for this month. This goes along with our previous blog posts about the different stages in the holistic testing model and how testing fits in...

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holistic testing, testing

Build quality in with shared understanding, using the Holistic Testing model

April 09, 2022

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Collaboration, Holistic Testing

In June, July and August of 2021, our blog posts were about engaging the whole team early in the discover and planning stages of the loop. We had several suggestions for practices that can help uncover hidden assumptions. In this blog post, w...

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collaboration, holistic testing, quality, sharing

Holistic testing: What it means for agile teams

February 26, 2022

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Collaboration, Testing, Visualization

Since Janet introduced her holistic testing model, we’ve had several practitioners tell us, “This describes what we do so well! Thank you for explaining this – I can use this model to explain to others!” This approach resonates with people on tea...

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holistic testing, quality, testing

Testing in DevOps

January 08, 2022

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
DevOps, Testing

Testing is the heart of DevOps. In our last blog post, we talked about DevOps – vocabulary, building relationships, and the deployment pipeline. This month we get more into the testing aspect of DevOps. Test automation is a big part of being ...

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holistic testing, testing

Engage the Whole Team Early!

June 24, 2021

Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin
Collaboration, Testing

We’re going to use Janet’s latest model about holistic testing, to talk about specific practices that we use in different stages of the lifecycle. In this post, we extract the left top part of the infinite loop, and talk about testing early ...

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collaboration, holistic testing, testing

Janet Gregory
Lisa Crispin

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Agile Testing Principles

AI Accountability

A holistic approach to "spec-driven development"

DORA and AI Capabilities

Why we now say holistic testing vs. agile testing

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Fostering collaboration with ensemble testing

Sharing ideas to spark conversations

Meet our instructors: Gáspár Nagy

Success Factor #2: Adopt an agile mindset

Meet our instructors: Prathan Dansakulcharoenkit

Figuring out the next steps in your team's quality journey with QPAM

Learning and Adapting in the Holistic Testing Model

The difference between monitoring and observability

Build quality in with shared understanding, using the Holistic Testing model

Holistic testing: What it means for agile teams

Testing in DevOps

Engage the Whole Team Early!

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