Testing in agile

When testing in agile development, it can be hard to know where in the process testing fits in. This differs depending on what kind of testing it is.

The following figure illustrates testing that has commenced in an agile process:

There is testing that should be confined in the sprint and then testing that will happen after the sprint.

When the developer is working on a feature, he or she will also develop the automatic tests for that feature, making sure he or she has the feature covered with tests. This will make the job of the tester easier, as this individual can focus on investigating the feature and not so much on checking the requirements. It will also reduce the number of turnarounds between development and functional testing. The feature gets function-tested during the sprint. There are important aspects to this:

• Functional testing should have its own stable test environment
• All deployments to test the environment have a discrete version such as 1.1.1234
• The tester controls...