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 is not sequential but continuous. Agile testing involves testing as early as possible in the software development life-cycle.

1. Agile Testing
Afaq Mansoor Khan | Nouman Khan
Teacher: Mr. Ahsan Ashfaq
Subject: Software Verification & Validation

2. 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 is not sequential but continuous.

3. Agile Testing Strategies
Agile testing life cycle spans through four stages

4. The Agile Testing Quadrants

5. Advantages of Agile Testing
● Agile Testing Saves Time and Money
● Less Documentation
● Regular feedback from the end user
● Daily meetings can help to determine the issues well in advance

6. Quality Assurance challenges with Agile software development
1) Chances of error are more in agile, as documentation is given less priority,
eventually puts more pressure on QA team.
2) Testers are often required to play a semi-developer role.
3) Very less time to prepare test plan.
4) For regression testing, they will have minimal timing.
5) Requirement changes and updates are inherent in an agile method,
becoming the biggest challenge for QA.

7. Risk of Automation in Agile Process
1) Automated UI provides a high level of confidence, but they are slow to
execute, fragile to maintain and expensive to build.
2) Automated tests are not a replacement for an exploratory manual testing. To
obtain the expected quality of the product, a mixture of testing types and
levels is required.
3) In order to save time, much times the automation test plan is poorly planned
or unplanned which results in the test fail.
4) Productivity metrics such as a number of test cases created or executed per
day can be terribly misleading.

8. Conclusion
Agile testing involves testing as early as possible in the software development
lifecycle. It demands high customer involvement and testing code as soon as it
becomes available. The code should be stable enough to take it to system testing.
Extensive regression testing can be done to make sure that the bugs are fixed and
tested. Mainly, Communication between the teams makes agile testing a
success!!!

9. References
1) https://www.guru99.com/agile-testing-a-beginner-s-guide.html
2) https://reqtest.com/testing-blog/agile-testing-principles-methods-advantages/
3) https://www.tutorialspoint.com/software_testing_dictionary/agile_testing.htm