{"id":1678,"date":"2015-09-22T01:49:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adactin.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2015-09-22T01:49:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:49:31","slug":"agile-projects-how-should-test-teams-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/agile-projects-how-should-test-teams-adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Agile Projects: How should Test Teams Adapt ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"half-width\">\n<p>When quality assurance teams and management who have adopted Agile practices first put the ideas to work, they face a significant impediment in unlearning the traditional mind-set and practices that experience in traditional practices has instilled in them.<\/p>\n<p>The following adaptation practice was documented after our experience in couple of key projects that moved to Agile methodology. These practices are a real life saver for project teams that are new to Agile.<\/p>\n<p>The following are some of the key aspects that need to be unlearned before attempting to deploy Agile practices, from a QA perspective:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The testing team needs to be independent and independently empowered in order to be&nbsp;effective.<\/li>\n<li>Without a separate test strategy and test plan, it&#8217;s tough to manage testing.<\/li>\n<li>The V-model for verification and validation cannot be applied in an Agile sprint.<\/li>\n<li>Independent testing teams don&#8217;t do white-box testing.<\/li>\n<li>The value of testing is realized only when defects are logged.<\/li>\n<li>Automation is optional and is required only when regression testing is needed.<\/li>\n<li>Testing nonfunctional aspects, such as performance of the system, is not possible in a sprint.<\/li>\n<li>Testing must follow planning, specification, execution, and completion sequentially.<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t have to write new test cases for detected defects.<\/li>\n<li>Poorly written code is not the testing team&#8217;s focus, as long as the code addresses the required functionality.<\/li>\n<li>Test-process improvement models do not address aspects of Agile testing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When quality assurance teams and management who have adopted Agile practices first put the ideas to work, they face a significant impediment in unlearning the traditional mind-set and practices that experience in traditional practices has instilled in them. The following adaptation practice was documented after our experience in couple of key projects that moved to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/agile-projects-how-should-test-teams-adapt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agile Projects: How should Test Teams Adapt ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-agile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinedigitalcompany.com\/adactin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}