Agile Testing

Agile testing integrates testing throughout the development process rather than treating it as a separate phase. In Agile teams, testing is everyone's responsibility, and QA is embedded in the development team.

Key principles of Agile testing:

• Testing is continuous: Not a phase at the end, but ongoing throughout the sprint
• Whole team approach: Developers, QA, and PO all share quality responsibility
• Fast feedback: Automated tests provide immediate feedback on changes
• Working software over documentation: Focus on testing the product, not generating documents
• Adapt and improve: Retrospectives drive testing process improvement

Agile testing quadrants (Brian Marick):

• Q1 (Technology, Team): Unit tests, component tests
• Q2 (Business, Team): Functional tests, examples, prototypes
• Q3 (Business, Critique): Exploratory testing, usability testing
• Q4 (Technology, Critique): Performance, security, scalability

Daily QA activities in a sprint:

• Participate in standups
• Review/refine user stories and acceptance criteria
• Write and execute tests alongside development
• Automate regression tests
• Participate in sprint review and retrospective