Agile Testing Lifecycle

In this section, we will be learning about agile testing lifecycle. Agile Testing Lifecycle includes the following:

Test Plan

First things first, it is important to create a test plan for each release and update it after every release. The main focus of creating the test plan before the start of a release is to outline the scope, test approach, entry and exit criteria for the release.

Sprint Planning

After that, the next phase of testing activity begins in sprint planning. In this phase, the whole team sits together and discusses the involvement of efforts across the planned user stories in a sprint. Further, the team coordinates together in order to achieve the requirement of the sprint velocity.

Implementation and Execution

The next phase after sprint planning is to create test cases. This activity issues a two-way value wherein the other QA gets awareness across the feature and helps to provide inputs for better test coverage. Test cases require link

Once stories are ready for testing, the test cases require execution across it. Another good practice while execution is to change the tester who created the test cases Reson being, the person will not explore further areas and thus can not think more of it.

Sprint Closure Activities

Once the rectification of all the bugs takes place and is shut down, the user stories are also shut down. In other words, they are ready for the usage of the Product Owner. For instance, if there is an outstanding bug in a story, then the same get overflow to the next sprint. Therefore, it is important to understand a story for delivery only after testing activities are shut down.

Regression

Regression occurs after all the sprints in a release takes place. The regression suite requires the approval by the Product Owner. On the basis of approval, there is a framework of a regression estimate before kick-starting regression to outline the time duration to complete off a regression.

Release Activities

After a release closure, the build is available to the UAT environment and is ready for a few users to perform user acceptance testing. After deploying the release to UAT, a smoke is carried out by the alpha testers and after the smoke success, the release is provided to the beta testers who test the build before signing off from their end to be shipped to production.