subject: Agile testing for increased customer satisfaction! [print this page] Agile testing for increased customer satisfaction!
Agile testing takes a new avatar of standard software testing methodologies in the pursuit of working towards rapid software deliveries to customers. With the advent of technologies growing faster, end-consumers of using the technologies anticipate their business applications to render productivity which in turn let the customers harvest the investment returns within short turn around time. The word "Agile" itself goes with the meaning "move quickly" and so the testing. In agile testing, no conventional testing practices are applicable to wait until the entire development cycle activities are completed, whereas the testing is closely intact with the development and is done in parallel to as and when a piece of code is developed.
As agile software development process involves in "incremental" release, the testing should also be in incremental manner yet as quick as possible to test the code fragments as soon as they are ready, stable and take a shape from developer's unit-level or module testing. This is to showcase the customer a quality piece of working product at regular short time intervals. So, agile testing is all about custom testing placing the customers' quality & delivery needs for thesoftware in the first place rather than the software vendor's lengthy, regular testing lifecycle and the quality strategies. The motto is shifted from " software testing as quality patrol" to "a collective team effort towards a demonstrable quality"
The agile testing drives the concept of "test-driven development" testing analytics from the moment of procuring the requirement specifications document to develop a checklist, which covers basic nitty-gritty test scenarios to stabilize the primary functionality of a requirement, thereby helping the developers to eye on quality from the time of coding, keeping the code clean while covering the critical and fundamental test cases in their unit tests. With the test checklists already available even before the programming of thesoftware starts, the testers are able to reuse them to easily manipulate and update the test cases for manual & automated testing, while managing the on-going requirement changes within the stipulated time frame.
Providing the space for reduction in resource utilization with re-useable test checklists and minimized manual testing by test automations using automationsoftware testing tools and no need to compile heavy testing documentation, agile testing suits best to keep customers in loop & happy through incremental quality progress.
