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Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of agile software development.

Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of agile software development.

Agile testing involves all members of a cross-functional agile team, with special expertise contributed by testers, to ensure delivering the business value desired by the customer at frequent intervals, working at a sustainable pace.

Classic books include:

Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory's "Agile Testing" - the site has two chapters available to download.

Elizabeth Hendrickson's "Explore it!".

See also her "Agile Testing Overview" (pdf) for a quick and very readable summary.

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Testing an application under continuous development

Ill try and set the scene for you all as best as I can. I have been working as the sole Tester on a suite of 13 related applications which is the end result of 5 separate developers work. Basically we operate on a two week update cycle (was…
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Will the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard work with agile methodologies like Scrum?

I somehow stumbled across some references to the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard that is currently draft stage (apparently). I have not seen the details of this new standard, however I would expect that a truly modern testing standard…
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What will happen if we start testing only after development?

It has become increasingly common for groups to want to start testing as soon as possible because the cost of fixing a potential bugs in design level is much cheaper than fixing a bug later. But, beside the "Cost of fixing it", what are other…
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How to Sell the Software Engineer in Test Position?

I am raising a question I'm sure some of you had to tackle or will tackle soon. More and more software projects are adopting the test automation approach. Test automation can be achieve in multiple ways. In a project I joined lately the approach we…
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The role of a software tester in an agile environment?

What would you say was the role of a software tester in an agile environment? Is it just testing and logging bugs or is it more important to work closely with the project architects and developers to improve the design and code early on?
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What is the "right amount of testing"?

When SCRUM teams develop components individually, components which will be integrated to form a solution, my understanding is that there are 3 levels of testing. Unit testing: Test how the programmer sees the system Component testing: Test how…
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How can I effectively transform the QA team into Agile and scrum?

I haven't seen any organization solely working on Scrum. Almost everyone practices Agile, but not completely follow the Scrum or any other process. Though they practice daily stand up meeting, follow the scrum events while being in Traditional…
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Agile Testing with no Acceptance Criteria or Documentation to refer to

I have been asked to test a new software application. The project is run Agile. In some cases I have no Acceptance Criteria and no documentation to refer to and I am being asked to write test cases for a User Story. Is this even possible? Has…
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What is the industry standard range for Defect Density in Agile process

What is the industry standard value for Defect Density in the Agile process? This is defined as the number of defects per thousand lines of code. Is there any other way we can calculate the ratio? If so, please share the details/formula.
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Percentage of time of an evaluation used to perform the evaluation

I often need to evaluate the time required to test a modification and include this time into the evaluation. What is the average percentage of the time evaluated that should be used to perform the evaluation ? For example, if I evaluate the testing…
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Some feelings about Testing Engineer and Software Engineer in Agile development?

I am Software developer, have worked for Agile development in some years. In theory, team members should support together. But the reality is different,I always struggle with Testing Engineers about the scope between us. Testing Engineer usually…
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Bug Tracking System in an Agile enviornment

I have been doing alot of research into Agile Testing including reading Agile Testing: A Practical guide... and it seems that the consensus is BTS(Bug tracking systems) are bad for Agile teams because they use valuable time logging bug reports that…
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