# 30 Days of Agile testing, Day 2: Mindmap of what agile testing is **URL:** \ **Category:** 30 Days of Testing\ **Tags:** 30-days-of-testing, agile\ **Created:** [31 August 2017 12:21 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-2-mindmap-of-what-agile-testing-is/1404 "2017-08-31T12:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [31 August 2017 12:21 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-2-mindmap-of-what-agile-testing-is/1404/1 "2017-08-31T12:21:25Z")
For Day 2 of [30 days of agile testing](https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/30-days-of-agile-testing) I looked at this guest post from [Jess Ingrasselino](https://blog.gurock.com/everyday-agile-practices-for-every-tester/). I also looked at the [MindMap of manual testing in an agile environment](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/2012/07/mindmap-manual-testing-in-an-agile-environment/) by Matt Archer. I struggle with mindmaps as a form of communication so I prefer the list format under it myself. For me, agile testing is much less siloed than previous “schools” of testing at a high level. I struggle to articulate what I think agile testing is at a lower level. I feel that agile testing is one role that helps to unite all of the other roles across a team. I need to work with our UX developer to understand why the designs are the way they are. I need to understand our target market and what they might want from our product. I need to work with our developers to ensure that they understand all of this too. Of course, with testing you need to ask a lot of questions: 1. What is the risk of this? (to the business, the user, the other stakeholders) 2. Why are we doing this? (the feature, the test, using a tool) 3. Who is this for? (the product, the documentation, the automation) I don’t think those questions change from agile to non agile environments but I think the speed that the answers for them are needed changes. On the Dojo there are pages of resources for [agile testing](https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=agile+testing) that I don’t think I’ll get through before the end of the challenge. I’m hoping that one of these pages helps me to get together a more detailed explanation of what agile testing is. In the meantime does anyone have a better explanation of what agile testing is? ---
**Author:** ![lisacrispin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/lisacrispin/32/556_2.png) [@lisacrispin](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/lisacrispin)\ **Post date:** [1 September 2017 11:56 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-2-mindmap-of-what-agile-testing-is/1404/2 "2017-09-01T11:56:03Z")
Janet Gregory and I asked the testing & agile communities to help us define agile testing. We’d never thought of doing a shorter definition - we tend to write hundreds of pages about it, with a lot of help from our friends! Here is the definition we came up with, with a lot of input from others: > **[Our ever-evolving, never set-in-stone definition of 'agile testing' - Agile...](http://agiletester.ca/ever-evolving-never-set-stone-definition-agile-testing/)** > > Our definition of “agile testing” Thanks everyone for your input on our original definition. We’ve changed it slightly based on new conversations and comments. Definition of agile testing: (by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory) Collaborative testing... ---
**Author:** ![christian.field](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@christian.field](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/christian.field)\ **Post date:** [3 September 2017 21:41 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-2-mindmap-of-what-agile-testing-is/1404/3 "2017-09-03T21:41:47Z")
“agile testing” so testing here is a gerund - a verb used as a noun. - and agile, an adjective. I find this interesting as well as a bit confusing. Testing is inherently a cognitive activity so to attach the adjective agile to it is in the first instance a little strange…that is, in terms of thinking of it as (a) a way of testing or (b) testing technique or © as a particular approach to testing. I think of adding this adjective in this case as describing testing being done in the particular context of the agile process. (I expect that I am now sounding pedantic…apologies…) So to me this means things such as: - executing testing activities throughout the sprint - such as backlog grooming(testing the integrity of the ino on user stories) - testing done by folks right across team(dev, PO, testers testing the application) - testers involved in a diverse range of fast-paced conversations and feedback loops. ---
**Author:** ![mjalav](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/mjalav/32/729_2.png) [@mjalav](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mjalav)\ **Post date:** [6 September 2017 00:58 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-2-mindmap-of-what-agile-testing-is/1404/4 "2017-09-06T00:58:37Z")
Day2: Writing article about agile testing from experiment. [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/testdev-collaboration-experience-agile-testing-mj-alavi](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/testdev-collaboration-experience-agile-testing-mj-alavi) ---
**Author:** ![mattcmf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mattcmf](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/mattcmf)\ **Post date:** [8 September 2017 07:57 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-2-mindmap-of-what-agile-testing-is/1404/5 "2017-09-08T07:57:52Z")
I added my feedback against my blog 🙂 > **[30 Days of agile testing — Day 2: Create a mind map, drawing, diagram about...](https://medium.com/@mattcmf/30-days-of-testing-day-2-4a931bea054c)** > > “30 Days of agile testing — Day 2: Create a mind map, drawing, diagram about what you think Agile…” is published by Matt Frampton. ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [18 September 2017 14:44 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-2-mindmap-of-what-agile-testing-is/1404/6 "2017-09-18T14:44:47Z")
Some blog posts I found shared on Twitter for todays challenge > **[30 Days Of Agile Testing! Day Two.](https://www.supertestingbros.com/blog/2017/9/1/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-two)** > > Day two: Create a mindmap, document, diagram or sketchnote about what you think agile testing is. If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you'll know I love drawing pictures. This, however, does not translate to useful diagrams. It's something I... > **[30 Days of Agile Testing – What is Agile Testing?](https://offbeattesting.com/2017/09/02/30-days-of-agile-testing-what-is-agile-testing/)** > > A good tester will be about doing what it takes to get done what needs to be done. > **[Mindmap of how I think Agile Testing is! – Aya Akl – Medium](https://medium.com/@AyaAkl/mindmap-about-what-is-agile-testing-abae4631a0b)** > > I am so excited to participate in #30daysoftesting. ---
**Author:** ![m.zn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/m.zn/32/8715_2.png) [@m.zn](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/m.zn)\ **Post date:** [1 May 2022 02:12 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/30-days-of-agile-testing-day-2-mindmap-of-what-agile-testing-is/1404/7 "2022-05-01T02:12:17Z")
Here is my mindmap for day 2 challenge. ![Agile Testing mindmap](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ministryoftesting/original/2X/e/e8094841ea0675b46c970658093f215215605079.jpeg)