Best Practices in Agile Testing

In the previous posts, I covered basics of Agile Testing. Those include It’s definition, approach, challenges, Advantages and Principles of Testing in Agile. Here, is another very basic but important topic which is generally underrated – The Best Practices to follow while Testing in Agile environment.

       Unit test is a must

Unit Test – Smallest piece of code that can be tested individually.
This smallest piece of code is the one which is ignored most commonly. Test execution activities begin with Unit Testing and thus form the foundation of quality checks. Ironically, unit testing is the one which is most commonly ignored or cut short upon.
The teams must understand the importance of Unit Tests and make sure they are being executed. Automation is also another important factor which broadly help unit testing.

       Minimize dependencies

One of the most important attribute of an effective test case is that it can be executed by anyone in the team irrespective of who authored. The same principle applies to Agile too. The tests must be written in a manner that they have minimum dependency on test data and other configurations and thus can be executed and used to generate reports by anyone, anytime

       Follow Test Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) appropriately

TDD and BDD are the latest buzz words when it comes to boiling down another buzz word – Agile! While these techniques are definitely useful and prove very handy, care must be taken while implementing the same. It is not always necessary that the models fit into

       Automate

     Test Automation is yet another field which is always in discussions and looks really attractive. It’s a different topic of discussion, but for now, below are the areas which can be good candidate for for automation:
       Unit Tests
       Regression Tests
       Deployment

       Create Scenario/Story-based Test Cases

      With the development being done in Agile and releases are done as a collection of user stories,  testing activities should not be ignored and follow similar procedures. It’s important to write test cases based on individual user stories which are further linked appropriately to the Epics.
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