Testing in the Agile World

Abstract

Conventional software projects employ a testing phase to verify the correctness of the software, and the developers and testers are in a sense in different silos during the project, which potentially leads to an adversarial relationship between them. However, in the Agile world, testing is employed from the very beginning of the project to provide regular feedback on the extent to which the product meets business needs. The developers and testers are very much part of one integrated team, and they work closely together in a spirit of collaboration. That is, there is a completely different mindset of testing employed in the Agile world.