Agile Quality Assurance
The Agile approaches are changing the conversation about software development. Agile shifted our attention to small teams incrementally delivering quality software. The old ideas about testing at the end of the coding phase no longer applicable. We need to think new about the role of Quality Assurance in Agile Projects.
Agile Testing abandons the old notion about how Testers communicate. Requirements and design docs are insufficient, as are test plans and bug reports. Agile Testing sees docs as interesting texts, partly fictional, often useful. Documents are as good as they are going to get. Testers need to join in the conversations with developers and users.
New models for Test Development
Testing may be degraded by poor or late docs, but it should not be blocked entirely.
Testers should use sources of information other than project docs when designing tests.
Test design must take into account what is learned from running tests.
The tester must take explicit, accountable action in response to dropped handoffs, new handoffs and changes to the contents of handoffs.
Source: http://www.mcbreen.ab.ca/
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