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WHAT IS AGILE TO THE TESTER?

No matter what product development framework or life-cycle is used, each approach goes through product testing and quality assurance. There will always be acceptance criteria and test cases to write, checklists to tick off, and defects to communicate to the team. However, due to the fast-paced and ever-changing nature of Agile, there are added responsibilities and concerns for testers. This article will list some of the things that testers can expect from Agile projects.

Faster project pace, same standard quality

The first thing that testers will need to know about Agile is that everything will be at a faster pace. Product increments should be delivered in a potentially shippable state after every sprint. In that time-box, requirements analysis for future Sprints as well as  functional testing and verification of fixes for the current Sprint need to be done. With this shorter time frame, it is a challenging task to ensure that the quality of the product increment is maintained and improved. This puts testing in the forefront of Agile, and testers need to find ways to keep up with the speed.

This does not mean letting go of traditional testing tasks such as test planning, test case creation, and other forms of documentation. It simply means choosing the appropriate tasks for the project and adjusting the templates to make them simple, readable, and understandable for the rest of the team. What was once a tedious bug reporting process could be made easier through changing the approach to presenting it to the developer, and what was once an overly detailed test case could simply list steps and acceptance criteria. Again, these will depend on what the team will find valuable.

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