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Making the Switch to Agile Testing

Sometimes, test teams may be perplexed about how to switch to agile. If you work on such a team, you almost certainly have manual regression tests, both because you’ve never had the time to automate them or because you test from the UI, and it does not make logical sense to automate them. You most likely have excellent exploratory testers who can uncover defects within complicated systems, but they do not automate their testing and require a finished product before they begin testing. You understand how to schedule testing for a release, but everything must be completed within a two-, three- or four-week iteration. How do you pull it off? How do you stay up with technological advancements?

This is a persistent challenge. In many businesses, developers believe they have moved to agile, but testers remain buried in manual testing and cannot “stay current” after each iteration. When I communicate to these professionals that they are only experiencing a portion of the benefits of their agile transformation, developers and testers say that the testers are too sluggish.

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A Guide to Agile Testing for Better Software Quality

Flexibility and speed are where the essence of the agile development methodology lies. It promotes collaboration and iterations at every stage while ensuring faster development and speedy deliveries. But, the agile development process does not exclusively refer to the development phase. Testing is as much a part of the agile process as the development phase. If you are skipping Agile Testing, you are not mimicking the attributes of a truly agile team.

Testing helps check the quality of the software and whether it works as expected. With the Agile Testing solution, you can ensure that the testing process takes the course of the agile development approach and is treated as a recurring activity over being treated as a one-time task.

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Approaching Agile Testing

As many are aware (or should be), "Agile Testing" is not a completely different testing procedure, rather a testing approach, which aligns with the principles of Agile software development. 

But how? Well, the most salient aspect is that it emphasizes testing and close coordination with the end-users or at least with the story owners, throughout the project life-cycle.