More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team

Chapter 5. Technical Awareness

Thinking skills help the whole team work well together to ensure that all necessary testing activities are planned and executed. Technical testing skills help bridge the gap between what the business needs and how the delivery team supplies it. We’ve used the term technical awareness to cover the ideas of technical skills needed for testing and communicating with other members of the development team. The first time Janet heard the term technical awareness was at a local testing workshop where Lynn McKee used it during one of the discussions. It seemed to capture the intent without getting hung up on existing terms. ...