Agile Testing

Testing in Agile Model:

Agile model take the processes to extreme to ensure that customer
requirements are met in a timely manner. In this model, customers
partner with the project teams to go step by step in bringing the
project to completion in a phased manner. The customer becomes part
of the project team so as to clarify any doubts/questions. Agile
methodology emphasizes the involvement of the entire team, and
their interactions with each other, to produce workable software that
can satisfy a given set of features. As a result of such interactions, all
ideas are exchanged. Software is released in small releases, with
features being introduced in increments.As the changes are
introduced incrementally; responding to the changes becomes very
easy.
Agile testing has a radical change in the testing arena where the team
no longer works as a “group of testers”. Test engineers no longer
need to send test documents and defect reports and wait for inputs
from the other members in the project. When testers pair with
developers, they may concentrate on the program’s functionality from
a technology perspective. While when they pair with customers, they
act like a subject matter expert on the product. Testers form a bridge
between the customers and the developers to explain their different
perspectives. Testers thus become the essential glue that brings
together the customer perspectives of product requirements and
developer perspectives of technology and implementation.
A typical Agile project day starts with a meeting called the stand up
meeting. At the start of each day, the team meets to decide on the plan
of action for the day. During this meeting, the team brings up any
 clarifications or concerns. These are discussed and resolved. The
entire team gets a consistent view of what each team member is
working on. Testers present to the project team the progress of the
project based on the test results. Other points of discussion could be
missing requirements or overshooting of estimates due to an issue or
time spent on various activities the previous day. The stand up
meetings being daily meetings enable quick reactions to changes.
Even though the roles of testers and developers are presented as
though they are different, in Agile model there is no boundary
between their roles. People cross boundaries and perform different
roles in this model.
Test Automation in Agile Model:
• While developers are working on code fixes for the changed
requirements, or defect fixes, testers can focus on the tests that can
be automated so that they can be run in the next iteration.
• This would reduce the test execution effort significantly.
• An appropriate automation tool and strategy that works for the user
story has to be identified.
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