Testing in an Agile Environment

Download this Corporate IT Forum Output Report. It has been compiled from experience shared by 26 corporate IT professionals representing 18 organisations - their combined relevant experience totalled over 220 years. Represented industries included financial services, transport, public sector, retail, manufacturing and local government sectors.

Summary

Testing in an agile environment presents significant challenges for IT organisations, and many of the Corporate IT Forum's members are in the early stages of using and understanding agile IT.

The key challenges identified included:

  • What projects is the agile methodology appropriate for?
  • What are the advantages of agile over alternative approaches?
  • How can the testing team be integrated with the project team?
  • What can be done to improve flexibility in agile testing and what specialist resources are needed?
  • How can IT teams secure buy-in from the customer for automated testing?
  • What is the best setup for roles in an agile testing team?
  • How can organisations understand and define the scope of testing?
  • Can the agile approach be used in multiple locations?
  • What tools are available to run multiple agile testing environments?
  • How does agile testing deal with things such as lack of documentation?
  • What skills are needed in a testing, Scrum and TDD team?
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