Recently, when I wanted to start my new automated testing projects with four applications, I thought of applying any of the agile methodologies. But he could not continue due to a number of questions arose in my mind. The questions are like "Is it possible to use agile methodologies in automated test?", "Can I use traditional tools," "If I go to open source tools," "What are the challenges they have to cope if I'm in automating the application of Agile Environment ". In this article we will discuss some of the challenges we faced during the implementation of automation with agile methodologies. Automated testing in agile environment is a risk of becoming chaotic, disorganized and uncontrolled.
Agile designs present their own challenges for mechanization equipment; unclear project scope, multiple iterations, the minimum documentation, automation requirements early and frequent and active participation of all stakeholders of new requirement for the challenges of automation equipment.
Some of these challenges are:
Challenge 1: Requirements Phase
Test Automation Developer capture demands in the form of "user histories" which are brief descriptions of relevant functionality customers.
Each demand must be priority as follows:
High: These are the decisive mission demands that absolutely must be done in the first version
Media: These are the demands that are important, but you can work at all, to practice.
Low: These are the demands that are nice to have but not essential for the functioning of the software.
After establishing priories, releases “iterations” are planned. Normally, each iteration agile release takes between 1 to 3 months for delivery. Customers / software people take the liberty to make too many changes to demands. Sometimes these changes are so volatile that the iterations are terminated. These changes are greater disputes in implementing agile test automation process.
Challenge 2: Selecting the Right Tools
Traditional test tools meeting with the recording and reproduction characteristics of strength of the teams to wait until after making the software. Moreover, test automation tools do not work traditional in a dynamic context and to solve traditional problems, and are different from the challenges faced by agile automation equipment. Automation in the early stages of an agile project is often very hard, but as the system grows and evolves some aspects of resolve and becomes appropriate to implement automation. So the choice of testing tools becomes critical to leverage the efficiency and quality benefits of agile.
Challenge 3: Script Development Phase
Automation testers, developers, business analysts and anyone interested in the design will serve the meetings where the "user histories" are selected for next sprint. Once the user "histories" are selected for the sprint, which are used as the basis for a serial of tests.
As the functionality increases with each iteration, regression testing should be performed to ensure that existing functionality has not been affected by the introduction of new features in each iteration cycle. The level of regression testing increases with every sprint and ensures that this remains manageable task test equipment using test automation for regression suite.
Challenge 4: Resource Management
The agile approach requires a combination of tests, ie testing resources demands to define clear scenarios and test cases, manual testing with developers write automat zed regression tests and run automated regression packages. As the design progresses, it is also necessary expertise to meet the test areas as well, which could include the integration and performance testing. There must be a right mix of domain specialists who plan and qualify. The difficult part of the resource direction is to find testing resources with multiple skills and Assignment.
Challenge 5: Communication
Good communication must exist between the test automation team, developers, business analysts and stakeholders. There must be a highly collaborative interaction between clients and delivery teams. More participation means more customers customer suggestions or changes. This means more bandwidth for communication. The key challenge is that the process must be able to capture and effectively implement all the changes and needs for data integrity to be retained. In traditional tests, developers and testers are like oil and water, but in an agile environment, the challenge is that both must work together to achieve the goal.
Challenge 6: Daily Scrum Meeting
Daily Scrum Meeting is one of the key activities in the agile process. The teams met for 15 minutes of walking sessions. What is the effectiveness of these meetings? To what extent these meetings help developers practice automation?
Challenge 7: Launch Phase
The goal of agile project is to deliver a commodity in work as quickly as possible and then go through a process of continuous improvement. This means no single release phase for a product. The hard part is integration testing and acceptance testing of the product.
If we can meet these challenges in a well optimized, then automated regression testing Agile environment is an excellent opportunity for quality control to assume leadership of the agile processes. It is best placed to bridge the gap between users and developers both understand what it takes, how to achieve and how it can be assured prior to deployment. Automation of the practice must have a strong interest in both the how and the result, and maintaining the assurance that your system meets all the evolution of business objectives and is fit for purpose.
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