Risks During Agile Testing
- Automated UI slow to execute: Automated UI gives confidence in the testing but they are slow to execute and expensive to build.
- Use a mix of testing types: To achieve the expected quality of the product, a mixture of testing types and levels must be used.
- Poor Automation test plan: Sometimes automation tests plan is poorly organized and unplanned to save time which results in a test failure.
- Lack of expertise: Automated testing sometimes is not the only solution that should be used, it can sometimes lack the expertise to deliver effective solutions.
- Unreliable tests: Fixing failing tests and resolving issues of brittle tests should be the top priority to avoid false positives.
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.