Testing in Agile Projects

Let's explore what is agile testing, how agile testing is different than traditional testing. What practices team has to adopt to have parallel testing and how to create your own test automation framework. Test automation frameworks using cucumber, selenium, junit, nunit, rspec, coded UI etc.

The document provides an overview of quality assurance and testing practices for agile projects. It discusses traditional and agile testing approaches, defines roles like testers and developers in agile teams, and outlines a test strategy including test planning, automation, and metrics. Key aspects of agile testing covered are testing throughout each sprint, the importance of collaboration, and ensuring quality is "baked in" through a whole team approach.

This document discusses adapting testing roles and processes to an agile development methodology. It notes that in agile, testers are full team members who participate in planning and requirements analysis from the start of each sprint. Testing activities occur throughout development rather than just at the end. Challenges in transitioning include changing traditional testing roles and resistance to change, while benefits include more transparent communication and continuous feedback between testers and developers. The document provides examples of agile testing practices and recommendations for improving testing efficiency such as increased test automation and planning.

This document discusses agile testing processes. It outlines that agile is an iterative development methodology where requirements evolve through collaboration. It also discusses that testers should be fully integrated team members who participate in planning and requirements analysis. When adopting agile, testing activities like planning, automation, and providing feedback remain the same but are done iteratively in sprints with the whole team responsible for quality.

Manual testing is the process of manually testing software for defects by playing the role of an end user and using all features of the application to ensure correct behavior, following a written test plan. The document discusses various concepts related to manual testing including software quality assurance, verification, validation, software life cycles, testing techniques like black box testing and white box testing, unit testing, alpha testing, beta testing, system testing, volume testing, stress testing, and security testing. It provides brief definitions and purposes of these concepts.

This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on automation testing using IBM Rational Functional Tester. It discusses what automation testing is, why it is useful, and when it should be implemented. It also addresses common myths about automation testing and provides tips for successful automation. Finally, it covers features of IBM Rational Functional Tester, including how to set up a test environment and record scripts to automate testing.

This document discusses testing and quality assurance for ERP modules. It provides an overview of the testing process roadmap, including establishing requirements and project scope, test planning, case development, different types of testing like unit, integration and user acceptance testing. It also outlines the personnel involved in testing like QA managers, analysts, writers. Metrics for test development and execution are also covered.

The Heuristic Test Strategy Model provides a framework for designing effective test strategies. It involves considering four key areas: 1) the project environment including resources, constraints, and other factors; 2) the product elements to be tested; 3) quality criteria such as functionality, usability, and security; and 4) appropriate test techniques to apply. Some common test techniques include functional testing, domain testing, stress testing, flow testing, and scenario testing.

This presentation provides an overview of the role of testers on agile teams. In essence, the differences between testers and developers should blur so that focus is the whole team completing stories and delivering value. Testers can add more value on agile teams by contributing earlier and moving from defect detection to defect prevention.

This document discusses introducing quality assurance (QA) processes into an agile development environment. It describes some common challenges that can arise when development and testing are not well integrated, such as business stakeholders finding bugs late in the process. The author advocates for making QA practices and results visible and incorporating QA personnel into agile ceremonies like planning and demos. With collaboration, commitment to quality, and clear communication, the QA team was able to gain trust and find bugs earlier. Their approach evolved to take on more types of testing, and they worked with business to define different testing levels and work testing around releases.

Testing software is conducted to ensure the system meets user needs and requirements. The primary objectives of testing are to verify that the right system was built according to specifications and that it was built correctly. Testing helps instill user confidence, ensures functionality and performance, and identifies any issues where the system does not meet specifications. Different types of testing include unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing, which are done at various stages of the software development life cycle.

Presented in BSPIN Conference (http://bspin.org/conference2014/) on "Succeeding in SMAC World". Had great interactions and glad to see great interest on Agile Testing concepts with Participants.

The document discusses automation testing basics, including that automation testing is done using automated tools to write and execute test cases. It explains that automation testing should be used for tasks that are time-consuming, repeated, tedious, or involve high risk test cases. The document also lists some popular free and commercial automation testing tools.

My presentation on Agile Testing, including a tuning concept and a case study of agile testing choices in a project, held 16 of June, 2014 at a customer internal seminar.

The document discusses automation testing for mobile apps using Appium. Appium allows for cross-platform mobile app testing by using the same tests across iOS and Android platforms. It functions by proxying commands to the devices to run tests using technologies like UIAutomation for iOS and UiAutomator for Android. While useful for local testing, Appium has limitations for scaling tests in continuous integration environments, where services like Sauce Labs are better suited.

This document provides an overview of agile methodologies and Scrum. It defines predictive and adaptive models, describing Waterfall as predictive and Agile as adaptive. It outlines key principles of Agile development, pros and cons, and describes common Agile methods like XP and Scrum. Scrum is described as considering both managerial and development aspects. Key Scrum roles, events, and artifacts like Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Increment are defined. Resources for learning more about Agile and Scrum are provided.

What are the Key drivers for automation? What are the Challenges in Agile automation and How to deal with them? How to automate? Who will automate? Which tool to select? Commercial or open source? What to automate? Which features? Here is what our experience says

How Does IBM Do Agile presentation that I presented at the Software Development Conference in Wellington, New Zealand at 22 March 2011.

The document discusses integrating Agile practices into a company's software development lifecycle (SDLC). It outlines key Agile concepts like product backlogs, sprints, and daily standups. It provides examples of how sprints can align with the SDLC and what deliverables each sprint produces. Critical success factors and potential adoption risks are also covered.

This document provides an overview of Agile and Scrum methodologies. It discusses why Agile approaches became popular, describing challenges with traditional waterfall methods. Key aspects of Scrum are outlined, including roles like Product Owner and Scrum Master, ceremonies like sprint planning and daily standups, and artifacts like product and sprint backlogs. Benefits of Scrum like adaptability, visibility and increased productivity are highlighted. The document aims to introduce readers to Scrum processes and terminology at a high level.

The document discusses problems with traditional software development approaches and proposes an agile approach using Scrum. It outlines key principles of Scrum including short iterative development cycles, daily stand-ups, prioritized backlogs and frequent deliveries of working software. Scrum roles of Product Owner, Scrum Master and cross-functional team are defined along with common Scrum artifacts, meetings and metrics used. Challenges of adopting Scrum at an organizational level are also covered.