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The ACT 2 LEAD book English version was published at leanpub.com on September 23, 2024, as an e-book (PDF). 

Previously, on October 23, 2023, the Finnish version was published by Ketterät Kirjat Oy as part of its CxO Academy book series. The book was published in Finnish as a softback and as an e-book. 

You can buy the English version as PDF on https://leanpub.com/act2lead.

You can buy the Finnish printed book on the Ketterät Kirjat website. The Finnish e-book can be ordered at Ellibs.

You will find the Finnish book also in major Finnish bookstores.

This book is for anyone who wants to understand what testing is. Understanding testing will help you to lead and improve your testing - whether outsourced or in-house. CEO, CIO, or CTO - this is the testing book for you, too! The book is useful for anyone in the software development business, e.g., product owners, project managers, designers, programmers, testers, and test managers. The book fits for students too.

The book is written in the form of questions. You can read the book chapter by chapter, and in any order you like. We answer the questions based on a total of more than 50 years of testing experience. We do not claim that our answers are absolutely correct, as there are different opinions. We answer to share our thoughts about testing and to get the discussion started. There are more than 30 questions and dozens of examples from our careers. The book also includes 20 possible ways to improve testing.

The book reminds leaders to be proactive and lead testing also when, or especially when, testing is outsourced. To support leaders in this, we have introduced the ACT 2 LEAD mnemonic. Read the book and learn what it means!

Be sure to question all our answers and ask questions. Just like a good tester does!

Questions answered i.e., the Table of Contents (see the Table of Contents of the book in Finnish here):

 Acknowledgements
1. Foreword
2. How did Marko become a leader in testing?
3. How did Kari become a leader in testing?
4. What does testing mean?
5. What is test leadership?
6. What does quality mean?
7. What does defect, i.e., bug mean?
8. What does quality assurance mean?
9. What does quality assistance mean?
10. How do you get a grip on test terms?
11. When does testing start?
12. How long does testing take?
13. What is the best way to test?
14. What are the differences between the product and the information system world?
15. Testing in different software development models
16. How does testing relate to other software development activities?
17. Who is involved in testing?
18. How to recruit testers?
19. What organizational testing capabilities are needed?
20. How to organize testing?
21. How to test in different situations?
22. What is test planning?
23. How to make testing diverse enough?
24. What kind of test types are there?
25. What kind of test approaches are there?
26. How to identify what to improve in testing?
27. How to improve and speed up testing?
28. How to develop testing competencies?
29. What kind of testing metrics are there?
30. What does test coverage mean?
31. What kind of testing tools are there?
32. What is test automation?
33. How to identify a good test?
34. How to manage test data?
35. Epilogue
36. Where did we get the answers to the questions in this book?



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