Test Management Challenges and Mitigations in Agile Scrum Methodology
in the current economic conditions many organizations strive to continue the trend towards adopting
agile processes to get the benefits like quicker return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer
satisfaction. Since the beginning of the current world financial crisis many technology-driven companies have
suffered the effects, being forced to lay off people or drastically diminish costs (Wauter, 2009). The survival of the
company itself becomes dependant of the time-to-market, deliver on time to the customer and minimize costs. As a
result, many organizations are now aspiring to adopt agile practices. In this process, agile testing became a big
challenge and the reasons are many which include mindset of the stakeholders, level of the documentation at the
beginning, process setup, continuous integration set up, metrics, accepting criteria, developers to tester ratio and
the tracking of the test life cycle. This paper highlights the major challenges, root causes, solutions and best
practices to be a successful agile tester which essentially leads to benefits of agile scrum testing. Also there is a
focus on agile scrum metrics which are vital in measuring the agile testing performance.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Introduction, Scrum Model, Agile Testing challenges, Root causes, Test Process, Best Practices, test metrics, Pros & Cons, Conclusion
Learning Outcome
Understanding the agile testing challenges and their mitigation strategies
Target Audience
Agile project managers, Scrum Masters, Agile test managers, Agile team members
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