# Agile Testing  Author:: Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory ## Highlights > Testers are integral members of the customer team, helping elicit requirements and examples and helping the customers express their requirements as tests. ([Location 794](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001QL5N4K&location=794)) > I learned that my job was to help the customers tell us what was valuable to them during each iteration, and to write tests to ensure that’s what they got. ([Location 855](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001QL5N4K&location=855)) > One of the agile tester’s most important contributions is helping the product owner or customer articulate requirements for each story in the form of examples and tests. ([Location 1032](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001QL5N4K&location=1032)) > Automated testing is one key to the solution. One thing we know for sure: No agile team will succeed doing only manual testing. We need robust automation in order to deliver business value in a time frame that makes it valuable. ([Location 1184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001QL5N4K&location=1184)) --- Title: Agile Testing Author: Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory Tags: readwise, books date: 2024-01-30 --- # Agile Testing  Author:: Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > Testers are integral members of the customer team, helping elicit requirements and examples and helping the customers express their requirements as tests. ([Location 794](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001QL5N4K&location=794)) > I learned that my job was to help the customers tell us what was valuable to them during each iteration, and to write tests to ensure that’s what they got. ([Location 855](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001QL5N4K&location=855)) > One of the agile tester’s most important contributions is helping the product owner or customer articulate requirements for each story in the form of examples and tests. ([Location 1032](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001QL5N4K&location=1032)) > Automated testing is one key to the solution. One thing we know for sure: No agile team will succeed doing only manual testing. We need robust automation in order to deliver business value in a time frame that makes it valuable. ([Location 1184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B001QL5N4K&location=1184))