What Is Agile Testing?
Unlike most types of testing, agile testing begins right at the beginning of a project. It is used hand-in-hand with continuous testing, typically starting off with the continuous integration phase. Plus, since agile testing is a part of DevOps strategies, it also follows the rules and principles of agile software development
When deploying agile testing, you can expect the following three methods:
Behavior Driven Development (BDD):
Improves communication to ensure that everyone understands each feature of an application before development.
Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD):
Integrates other team members such as customers, developers, and testers to incorporate all perspectives
Exploratory Testing:
A type of quality assurance test that emphasizes an informal approach to finding bugs and UX issues
The Advantages of Agile Testing
As a DevOps strategy, agile testing can bring many benefits to your product. Below are just some of the many ways agile testing can help:
- Simplified process
- Continuous Testing
- Constant feedback (and decrease in feedback response time)
- Tests can be performed by the entire team, not just by QA testers
- Better communication between testers and developers