About Lisa Crispin

An agile testing coach and practitioner, Lisa Crispin is the co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and a contributor to Beautiful Testing and Testen in der Finanzwelt. She also co-wrote Testing Extreme Programming. Lisa specializes in showing Agile teams how testers can add value and guide development with business-facing tests. For the past ten years, Lisa has worked as a tester on agile teams developing web applications in Java and .Net. She teaches Agile Testing courses and tutorials worldwide. Lisa contributes articles to publications such as Better Software magazine, Software Test & Performance Magazine, IEEE Software Magazine, Methods & Tools, Agile Journal, and the Agile Record. Lisa was named one of the 13 Women of Influence in testing by Software Test & Performance magazine.

How to Improve Communication Between QA and Development

A couple months ago, I perused an online article which purported to tell developers what they should learn in order to communicate better with testers. Number one on the list was, “Learn to use the bug tracking system.” After I screamed, I resolved to float some more useful ideas. Programmers know they need to get [...]

Selling Agile to the CFO: A Guide for Development Teams

You’ve learned about Agile development, or perhaps you have even worked in an agile organization and have now moved to a traditional one. You’re convinced that by adopting Agile, your team can deliver better value to your business, more frequently, and at a sustainable pace. But Agile adoption requires a big investment by your company, [...]