Need of Agile software development, agile context– Manifesto, Principles, Methods, Values, Roles, Artifacts, Stakeholders, and challenges. Business benefits of software agility.

Fundamentals of Agile Process: Introduction and background - Agile Manifesto and Principles - Stakeholders and Challenges - Overview of Agile Development Models: Scrum - Extreme Programming - Feature Driven Development – Crystal – Kanban - and Lean Software Development.

Recognizing the structure of an agile team– Programmers, Managers, Customers. User stories– Definition, Characteristics and content. Estimation– Planning poker, Prioritizing, and selecting user stories with the customer, projecting team velocity for releases and iterations.

Agile design practices, Role of design Principles, Need and significance of Refactoring, Refactoring Techniques, Continuous Integration, Automated build tools, Version control; Agility and Quality Assurance: Agile Interaction Design, Agile approach to Quality Assurance, Test Driven Development, Pair programming: Issues and Challenges.

The Agile life cycle and its impact on testing, Test driven development– Acceptance tests and verifying stories, writing a user acceptance test, Developing effective test suites, Continuous integration, Code refactoring. Risk based testing, Regression tests, Test automation.