Issues and Challenges Related to Agile Testing - Bugraptors

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Issues and Challenges Related to Agile Testing
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• In this fast paced technological world, the need
  for integrating the changing requirements in the
  software product, in an effective and efficient
  manner, together with the delivery of a product,
  in the least possible time has made the most of
  the organization, to embrace and implement the
  agile methodology of software development.
• An agile development methodology is an
  evolutionary approach, which provides the
  delivery of a software product in the increments
  after each iteration or sprints of short
  durations.

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• Agile testing is one of those testing types that
  follow the principles of agile methodology. Some
  of the features of agile testing are
• Continuous testing
• Less or no documentation work.
• Systematic feedback and reviews.

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• While the advantages associated with the agile
  testing attract the testers to be a part of the
  agile testing team, the professionals who are
  already engaged or have been the part of the
  agile testing team earlier are aware of the
  issues and challenges related to this testing
  technique.
• Lets have a look at a few of them

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Selection of the Tools

• Customary automation tools are used to automate
  the testing processes of fully developed software
  products, which may not require any further
  changes.
• But if you are thinking to carry out tests with
  the agile methodology, from the beginning along
  with the development, it would not be feasible to
  automate the testing process at an early stage.
• Furthermore, automation may be introduced at a
  later stage, but still, these traditional tools
  are not suitable for the agile environment.
• Selecting the right and suitable tools for
  automating the agile test environs is the major
  challenge for the testing team.

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Last Minute Changes

• One of the purposes of the agile methodology is
  to cater to the need of implementing the
  frequently changing requirements and features in
  a software product.
• Still, to consider and bring changes, when a
  software is almost ready to be released, is one
  of the most challenging and hectic factors that
  an agile tester has to face, keeping in view the
  approaching deadlines.

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Lack of Documentation

• Agile testing or agile methodology does not
  include any sort of requirement gathering or
  documentation.
• Therefore, the non-availability of the
  documentation work hinders the agile testers in
  verifying and authenticating the functionality
  and features of a software, as they are ignorant
  of the requirements against which the software
  needs to be tested.

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Limited Test Coverage

• The quick, small iterations and the need to
  deliver products after each iteration forces the
  testing team of focus and emphasize on the
  essential features and functionalities modified
  after each sprint.
• Thus, a majority of the features and
  functionalities cannot be covered under the
  regression testing suites.

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Frequent Changing Code

• The arriving requirements may bring a small or
  large amount of changes in the already existing
  code after each sprint or iteration.
• Therefore, the codes are required to be
  substantiated and authenticated after each
  iteration, thereby requiring automation of
  regression test suites, an additional burden on
  the agile testing team.

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Communication

• Agile does not consist of any documentation work,
  still, teams and stakeholders/client collaborate
  frequently to address various issues relating to
  the gathering of requirements, analyzing it,
  changing it, correcting it, and more.
• However, agile needs good and proper
  communication between the teams, including the
  clients to easily understand the requirements.

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• Further, the testing team also needs to have
  proper communication with the development team,
  as they may help the testing team in
  understanding the features and functionalities of
  a product and in carrying out the testing
  activities in the nonexistence of any
  documentation work, during each sprint.
• To conclude, it is significant to share that find
  the agile testing tools carefully to have a bug
  free version of the software product with each
  iteration.

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