Challenges are faced by employees regardless of what domain they are into. The question is how these challenges can be tackled and solved strategically. Agile testing is considered to be one of the most efficient testing techniques, but there are challenges faced by the agile tester. In this article, you will know where exactly the challenge lies and how the agile testing team can work and overcome it.

What is Agile Methodology?

Agile Methodology is a testing methodology that follows the principles and rules of agile software development. Continuous interaction forms the core of Agile testing as the information received from testers, developers, stakeholders, customers for improvising software testing activities forms the essence of this testing method.

Following are the top 4 challenges faced by a tester in Agile Methodology:

Automation is not taken seriously

automation testing has proved to be a clear winner in many testing scenarios across various industry verticals. Using agile testing without incorporating automation will turn out to be ineffective because a lot of time would be spent running tests. Upon that, if a testing team needs to fix any defects post-release, then the time factor would only gobble up. Implementing test automation would take less amount of the tester’s time to run different tests.

Lack of a strategic plan of action

strategic planning plays a pivotal role in agile testing. The agile team must clearly know what their roles and responsibilities are as an individual and as a team member. A quantifiable metric should be prepared by the team lead/manager so that agile testers can carry out the entire agile testing activity in a productive and time-bound manner, where testing outcomes match with the actual testing requirements.

Getting confused between process and framework

There will be instances where many developers and testers will see agile testing as a process-oriented approach, which in actuality is not true. In fact, agile testing is a framework-driven approach that is able to clearly define the entire software development process. The process is a micro aspect of agile testing which also plays a key role in the effective functioning of agile testing. This testing method is more focused on fine-tuning the process. Hence, a tester must view agile testing from a framework standpoint.

Inappropriate handling of Agile Methodology teams

In an agile environment, it would be illogical for senior management to control the agile team members by restricting their decision-making capacity and ordering them to work as said. This kind of work ethic will prove to be unproductive. In an agile testing environment, testing teams must make their own decisions and work according to their plan and also should be given the flexibility to make testing related changes as and when required.

Conclusion

Agile Methodology is more focused on flexibility and adaptability, rather than command and control. Agile testing challenges can be solved amicably by taking the opinion of all the team members involved in agile testing, regardless of whether the opinion counts or not.

About the author

I am a technical content writer focused on writing technology specific articles. Software testing is one of the areas in which I’m really interested. In this article. I have tried to provide some meaningful information about the challenges testers face in agile testing.