Today here in this blog we are going to understand about Agile testing, its principles of agile software development and advantages. Lets first start with basic definition of agile testing.
This blog is beneficial to get an introduction about agile testing
and its methodologies whereas it is suggested to go through the
details of SCRUM Framework to understand practically the concepts of
agile development. For Scrum testing the interested person can enroll
to SCRUM Testing course provided by QACampus in Noida (NCR). This is
an important course to learn agile development and managing the agile
software testing project.
Explain Agile Testing :
Agile testing is a practice of software testing that follows agile
software development principles. This is a repetitive development
methodology, where requirement derives through collaboration between
customer and self organizing teams and agile coordinate customer
requirements with development.
Agile development admits that software testing is not an independent
phase, but an essential part of software application development,
along with coding. Coding and testing are done iteratively and
incrementally, building up each feature until it grants sufficient
value to release the developed product. It covers all types of
testing. Agile testing portion helps testing team to identify and
efficiently plan the testing requirement.
Agile
Testing Principles :
- Testing is not a state: Since continuous progress for a software test can be achieved through continuous testing hence agile teams needs to test continuously.
- Testing helps in moving project forward: Testing is considered as the entrance for quality when conventional methods have been followed but the agile testing gives feedback on continuing basis so that the product meets the business demands.
- Everyone tests : In traditional software development life cycle, the test has been done by test team whereas in agile test process, the test has been performed by both developers and business analysts.
- Reduced feedback response time: In traditional software development life cycle, the business analysts team will come to know about product development only during acceptance testing phase whereas in agile testing for every redundancy, the business analysts team is involved. Hence their continuous feedback is helpful in reducing feedback response time as well as the cost of fixing errors.
- Clean Code: In agile testing the defects have been fixed as they appear in project due to which code within application can be kept clean.
- Reduced test documentation : Agile testers use reusable program file that focus on significance of test rather than minor details and hence reduced the use of lengthy documentation.
- Test driven: In traditional methods, testing is carried out after implementation whereas in agile testing, the test has been performed during implementation.
Agile
testing advantages :
- Agile testing techniques saves money and time
- Functionality can easily and rapidly be developed.
- Reduced resource requirements.
- Provides flexibility to developers.
- Reduce documentation efforts
- Gets continuous feedback from end user
- Daily meetings can help in determining the issues in advance
- Easy to manage
Conclusion : The above mentioned points are helpful to understand the
importance of agile testing by learning which test professionals can
develop their skills of project management and testing software
efficiently.
