Benefits of Agile Testing
Below are some of the benefits of agile testing:
- Saves time: Implementing agile testing helps to make cost estimates more transparent and thus helps to save time and money.
- Reduces documentation: It requires less documentation to execute agile testing.
- Enhances software productivity: Agile testing helps to reduce errors, improve product quality, and enhance software productivity.
- Higher efficiency: In agile software testing the work is divided into small parts thus developer can focus more easily and complete one part first and then move on to the next part. This approach helps to identify minor inconsistencies and higher efficiency.
- Improve product quality: In agile testing, regular feedback is obtained from the user and other stakeholders, which helps to enhance the software product quality.
Agile Software Testing
Agile Testing is a type of software testing that follows the principles of agile software development to test the software application. All members of the project team along with the special experts and testers are involved in agile testing. Agile testing is not a separate phase and it is carried out with all the development phases i.e. requirements, design and coding, and test case generation. Agile testing takes place simultaneously throughout the Development Life Cycle. Agile testers participate in the entire development life cycle along with development team members and the testers help in building the software according to the customer requirements and with better design and thus code becomes possible. The agile testing team works as a single team towards the single objective of achieving quality. Agile Testing has shorter time frames called iterations or loops. This methodology is also called the delivery-driven approach because it provides a better prediction on the workable products in less duration time.
- Agile testing is an informal process that is specified as a dynamic type of testing.
- It is performed regularly throughout every iteration of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Customer satisfaction is the primary concern for agile test engineers at some stage in the agile testing process.