A Novel Method for Reducing Testing Time in Scrum Agile Process

Abstract

Recently, the software development in the industry is moving towards agile due to the advantages provided by the agile development process. Main advantages of agile software development process are: delivering high quality software in shorter intervals and embracing change. Testing is a vital activity for delivering a high quality software product. Often testing accounts for more project effort and time than any other software development activities. Testing strategies for conventional process models are well established, but these strategies are not directly applicable to agile testing without modifications and changes. In this paper, a novel method for agile testing in the scrum software development environment is proposed and presented. The sprint and testing activities which form the context for the proposed testing method are presented. The proposed method is applied on two cases studies. The results indicated that the testing time can be reduced considerably by applying the proposed method. KEYWORDS Agile software development, scrum, software industry, novel method for testing, testing time reduction.