Agile testing

Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of agile software development. Agile testing does not emphasize testing procedures and focuses on ongoing testing against newly developed code until quality software from an end customer's perspective results. Agile testing is built upon the philosophy that testers need to adapt to rapid deployment cycles and changes in testing patterns.

Overview

Agile testing involves testing from the customer perspective as early as possible, testing early and often as code becomes available and stable enough, since working increments of the software are released often in agile software development. This is commonly done by using automated acceptance testing to minimize the amount of manual labor.

Further reading

• Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory (2009). Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-321-53446-8. 
• Ambler, Scott (2010). "Agile Testing and Quality Strategies: Discipline over Rhetoric". http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/agileTesting.html. Retrieved 2010-07-15. 
• Kalistick (2011). "Leading Agile testing". http://www.kalistick.com/agile-testing-helps-testing-efficiency.html. Retrieved 2011-07-11. 
• Lerche-Jensen, Steen (2003-10-18). "Agile Certifications - Agile Testing". http://www.waqb.org. Retrieved 2010-10-18. 

References

• Pettichord, Bret (2002-11-11). "Agile Testing What is it? Can it work?". http://www.sasqag.org/pastmeetings/AgileTesting20021121.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-10. 
• Hendrickson, Elisabeth (2008-08-11). "Agile Testing, Nine Principles and Six Concrete Practices for Testing on Agile Teams". http://testobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/AgileTestingOverview.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-26. 
• Parkinson, Shane (2008-11-26). "Agile Methodology". http://agiletesting.com.au/agile-methodology/agile-methods-and-software-testing/. Retrieved 2011-01-10. 
• "Video: How does agile affect testing". 2008-12-15. http://www.agilejournal.com/component/seyret/?task=videodirectlink&id=49. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
• Crispin, Lisa (2003-03-21). "XP Testing Without XP: Taking Advantage of Agile Testing Practices". http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=2. Retrieved 2009-06-11.