Agile testing

Agile development recognizes that testing is not a separate phase, but an integral part of software development, along with coding. Agile teams use a "whole-team" approach to "baking quality in" to the software product. Testers on agile teams lend their expertise in eliciting examples of desired behavior from customers, collaborating with the development team to turn those into executable specifications that guide coding. Testing and coding are done incrementally and interactively, building up each feature until it provides enough value to release to production. Agile testing covers all types of testing. The Agile Testing Quadrants provide a helpful taxonomy to help teams identify and plan the testing needed. The model of the Agile Testing Quadrants was originally described by Brian Marick, and was popularized by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory in their book Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. It places different test types on two axis: Technology Facing vs Business Facing, and Support Programming vs Critique Product. Costs are expected to go down as the time between development and testing feedback decreases. With shorter feedback loops, bugs fixes and reworks require less time as developers spend much less time reengaging the code's context as they move on to new problems and projects. ISTQB found that the popularity of Agile methodologies are significantly increasing, which shows the need for Agile testing processes and techniques. They are providing an Agile Tester extension to their certification. == Tools ==

As companies grow, agile testing teams often rely on software testing tools to solve challenges that can ultimately speed-up the release of feedback making sure. Most teams look for collaboration features, automated or customized reporting and finding ways to avoid repeated efforts. Choosing the right tool will depend on the requirements of each team. Pairing up with other Agile Lifecycle Development Tools, Agile testing tools can deliver effective results by coexisting in integrated environments. Such is the case for Atlassian Marketplace and Microsoft Visual Studio. Some test management tools support Agile testing by getting teams involved earlier in the SDLC to continuously build test scenarios as stories evolve. Teams often look for a solution that can deliver a combination of automated and manual testing. Some well-recognized tools used in Agile testing include: • Selenium WebDriver — an open-source tool for automating web browser interactions. • JUnit — a Java unit testing framework that supports test automation and integration with continuous integration systems. • TestNG — a Java testing framework supporting unit, functional, and integration testing, with features like parallel execution and flexible configuration. • Cucumber — a framework for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), enabling test scenarios in plain language (Gherkin) for collaboration between technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Serenity BDD — a framework that integrates with Selenium and Cucumber to simplify acceptance tests and provide detailed documentation and test reports. ==Further reading==