| 29 December 2006
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Agile Testing Strategies
It's an old line but a good one:
"The quality of your system is only as good
as the quality of your testing efforts".
Industry guru and commentator Scott Ambler, in a recent Dr. Dobb's Journal
article,
Agile Testing Strategies,
tackles the main issue right on -- advocating using "agile testing methods"
as a way to deliver hi-quality testing fully in parallel with the software
development process.
The "agile approach" is fundamentally different from the classical "throw the
software over the wall to the test team and hope for the best" method.
Which never really worked, so good riddance.
By testing all the time you're developing you maximize the chance of
early detection (and repair) of the application -- and we all know that
achieving early detection is a big payoff.
The article is light and well done, and a good read.
Several good references, too.
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