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Common features in agile testing

July 22nd, 2009
Iterative development
–Running, tested features developed in order of business priority
Responsive to changing requirements
–Many opportunities to re-prioritise and re-evaluate
‘Travel light’
Favour conversations over documentation and formal process
Customer (Product Owner) is part of the team
–Empowered customer rep either on-site or accessible to the team, provides constant feedback on quality and priorities
Focus on delivering Business Value
–Everything costs, so don’t do anything that doesn’t add value!
Test-Driven
–High emphasis on testing early, testing often & testing fast
Restrospectives
–The team review and improve their own processes regularly

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Agile Techniques

July 13th, 2009

Agile techniques: Many organizations have begun to use agile development techniques. These practices put a premium value on collaboration and alter the development cycle because requirements are changing and being completed incrementally as the project is under way. Agile methods also focus on the drive to push quality upstream through techniques such as unit testing and code reviews. Agile practices are encouraging vendors in the tool market to build tools that recognize these process changes and address the shift from isolated specialist tools to coordinated suites that share information and manage and update each other in a complementary fashion. For example, leading tool support integration between software requirements and test plans, and as requirements grow or change, will force a vendor to update its test plan. This collaborative capability is especially important for globally dispersed organizations to keep information loss among groups to a minimum.

Source: Gartner

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