Agile 3: Quality Assurance and Agile projects

Quality Assurance and Agile projects

This post is part 3 of an Agile series; my last post was about measuring an Agile progress. In this post I’m talking more about, what are the QA Agile practices we are using in my company? Quality Assurance and Agile projects are very complex combo in any agile project. It’s true QA decrease the speed of any project and if project is on Agile, it certainly create complexity in an Agile methodologies. However being an Agile project that does not mean you can kick out the QA and close project on time with in budget. At the end stakeholder don’t appreciate if deliverable are on time and in budget but quality is shit. That’s the point mostly all project manager miss when they push team to complete project.

Anyway that an other story, but let’s talk about different dimensions in an QA world for an Agile project. I’m not explaining any dimension in this post, because the topic is so horizontal and wide that we can write whole book on it. So just focus on our scope, and they are not unique to QA world.

~ Functional Testing
~ Test Management
~ Independent Testing
~ Performance Testing
~ Security Testing
~ Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Testing
~ Transport Testing (SAP)

You can argue with me that there are so many other QA dimensions, which I can add. That’s true, but the thing is “IT Best Practices are not about right or wrong; it’s more about what and how.”