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Agile Lifecycle and Its Impact On Testing

Agile Testing is a continuous testing practice integrated with agile software development, emphasizing early and ongoing collaboration between development and testing teams. The Agile Testing life cycle consists of five phases: Impact Assessment, Agile Testing Planning, Release Readiness, Daily Scrums, and Test Agility Review, each focusing on iterative feedback and improvement. Agile testing strategies include initial setup in Iteration 0, Construction Iterations for extensive testing, and a Release End Game phase to ensure successful deployment.

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Agile Lifecycle and Its Impact On Testing

Agile Testing is a continuous testing practice integrated with agile software development, emphasizing early and ongoing collaboration between development and testing teams. The Agile Testing life cycle consists of five phases: Impact Assessment, Agile Testing Planning, Release Readiness, Daily Scrums, and Test Agility Review, each focusing on iterative feedback and improvement. Agile testing strategies include initial setup in Iteration 0, Construction Iterations for extensive testing, and a Release End Game phase to ensure successful deployment.

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What is Agile Testing?

Agile Testing is a testing practice that follows the rules and principles of agile
software development. Unlike the Waterfall method, Agile Testing can begin at the
start of the project with continuous integration between development and testing.
Agile Testing methodology is not sequential (in the sense it’s executed only after
coding phase) but continuous.

Principles of Agile Testing


Here are the essential Principles of Agile Testing:

 In this Agile testing model, working software is the primary measure of


progress.
 The best result can be achieved by the self-organizing teams.
 Delivering valuable software early and continuously is our highest priority.
 Software developers must act to gather daily throughout the project.
 Enhancing agility through continuous technical improvement and good
design.
 Agile Testing ensures that the final product meets the business’s
expectations by providing continual feedback.
 In the Agile Test process, we need to execute the testing process during the
implementation, which reduces the development time.
 Testing process in Agile should work on the consistent development pace
 Provide regular reflections on how to become more effective.
 The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-
organizing teams.
 Each time the team meets, it reviews and adjusts its behavior in order to
become more effective.
 Face-to-face conversation with the development team is the most effective
and efficient method of conveying information within the team.

Agile Testing Life Cycle


The agile Testing life cycle is completed in five different phases, as we can see in
the following image:

Here are the Agile process testing steps:


Phase1: Impact Assessment: In this initial phase, we gather inputs from
stakeholders and users. This phase is also called the feedback phase, as it assists
the test engineers in setting the objectives for the next life cycle.

Phase 2: Agile Testing Planning: It is the second phase of the Agile testing life
cycle, where all stakeholders come together to plan the schedule of the testing
process and deliverables.

Phase 3: Release Readiness: At this stage, we review the features that have been
developed/ Implemented are ready to go live or not. In this stage, it is also decided
which one needs to go back to the previous development phase.

Phase 4: Daily Scrums: This stage includes every standup morning meeting to
catch up on the status of testing and set the goal for the entire day.

Phase 5: Test Agility Review: The last phase of the Agile life cycle is the Agility
Review Meeting. It involves weekly meetings with stakeholders to regularly
evaluate and assess progress against goals.
Agile Test Plan
Agile test plan includes types of testing done in that iteration like test data
requirements, infrastructure, test environments, and test results. Unlike the
waterfall model, in an agile model, a test plan is written and updated for every
release. Typical test plans in agile includes

 Testing Scope
 New functionalities which are being tested
 Level or Types of testing based on the features complexity
 Load and Performance Testing
 Infrastructure Consideration
 Mitigation or Risks Plan
 Resourcing
 Deliverables and Milestones

Agile Testing Strategies


Agile testing life cycle spans through four stages

Iteration 0
During the first stage or iteration 0, you perform initial setup tasks. It includes
identifying people for testing, installing testing tools, scheduling resources
(usability testing lab), etc. The following steps are set to achieve in Iteration 0

 Establishing a business case for the project


 Establish the boundary conditions and the project scope
 Outline the key requirements and use cases that will drive the design trade-
offs
 Outline one or more candidate architectures
 Identifying the risk
 Cost estimation and prepare a preliminary project

Construction Iterations
The second phase of agile testing methodology is Construction Iterations, the
majority of the testing occurs during this phase. This phase is observed as a set of
iterations to build an increment of the solution. In order to do that, within each
iteration, the team implements a hybrid of practices from XP, Scrum, Agile
modeling, and agile data and so on.

In construction iteration, the agile team follows the prioritized requirement


practice: With each iteration, they take the most essential requirements remaining
from the work item stack and implement them.

Construction iteration is classified into two, confirmatory testing and investigative


testing. Confirmatory testing concentrates on verifying that the system fulfills
the intent of the stakeholders as described to the team to date, and is performed by
the team. While the investigative testing detects the problem that confirmatory
team has skipped or ignored. In Investigative testing, tester determines the
potential problems in the form of defect stories. Investigative testing deals with
common issues like integration testing, load/stress testing, and security testing.

Again for, confirmatory testing there are two aspects developer testing and agile
acceptance testing. Both of them are automated to enable continuous regression
testing throughout the lifecycle. Confirmatory testing is the agile equivalent of
testing to the specification.

Agile acceptance testing is a combination of traditional functional testing and


traditional acceptance testing as the development team, and stakeholders are doing
it together. While developer testing is a mix of traditional unit testing and
traditional service integration testing. Developer testing verifies both the
application code and the database schema.

Release End Game Or Transition Phase


The goal of “Release, End Game” is to deploy your system successfully into
production. The activities include in this phase are training of end users, support
people and operational people. Also, it includes marketing of the product release,
back-up & restoration, finalization of system and user documentation.

The final agile methodology testing stage includes full system testing and
acceptance testing. In accordance to finish your final testing stage without any
obstacles, you should have to test the product more rigorously while it is in
construction iterations. During the end game, testers will be working on its defect
stories.

Production
After the release stage, the product will move to the production stage.

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