Role of Tester in Agile World
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. The survival of the company itself
becomes dependent 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. Here I am highlighting 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
What is agile testing?
Testing Process Flow
Challenges & Mitigations
Tools & Technologies
Best Practices
Learning Outcome
1. Understand the agile testing
2. Know the agile testing challenges
3. Know the agile testing role and process
4. Know the agile test transformation
5. Know the agile test metrics
Target Audience
Agile test managers, agile project managers, agile scrum teams, Scrum Masters