Challenges During Agile Testing
Below are some of the challenges that are faced during agile testing:
- Changing requirements: Sometimes during product development changes in the requirements or the specifications occur but when they occur near the end of the sprint, the changes are moved to the next sprint and thus become the overhead for developers and testers.
- Inadequate test coverage: In agile testing, testers sometimes miss critical test cases because of the continuously changing requirements and continuous integration. This problem can be solved by keeping track of test coverage by analyzing the agile test metrics.
- Tester’s availability: Sometimes the testers don’t have adequate skills to perform API and Integration testing, which results in missing important test cases. One solution to this problem is to provide training for the testers so that they can carry out essential tests effectively.
- Less Documentation: In agile testing, there is less or no documentation which makes the task of the QA team more tedious.
- Performance Bottlenecks: Sometimes developer builds products without understanding the end-user requirements and following only the specification requirements, resulting in performance issues in the product. Using load testing tools performance bottlenecks can be identified and fixed.
- Early detection of defects: In agile testing, defects are detected at the production stage or at the testing stage, which makes it very difficult to fix them.
- Skipping essential tests: In agile testing, sometimes agile testers due to time constraints and the complexity of the test cases put some of the non-functional tests on hold. This may cause some bugs later that may be difficult to fix.
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.