Wednesday 3 May 2017

Oniyosys Agile Testing: efficient software testing services that deliver high-quality, stable software



In the world of software development, the term agile typically refers to any approach to project management that strives to unite teams around the principles of collaboration, flexibility, simplicity, transparency, and responsiveness to feedback throughout the entire process of developing a new program or product. And agile testing generally means the practice of testing software for bugs or performance issues within the context of an agile workflow.


Testing using Agile Methodology is the buzzword in today's industrial world as it yields quick and reliable testing results. The following course is designed for beginners with no Agile Experience. Unlike the WaterFall method, Agile Testing can start at the beginning of the project with continuous integration between development and testing. Agile Testing is not sequential (in the sense it's executed only after coding phase) but continuous.

Oniyosys Agile team works as a single team towards a common objective of achieving Quality. Agile Testing has shorter time frames called iterations (say from 1 to 4 weeks). This methodology is also named release, or delivery driven approach since it gives a better prediction on the workable products in short period of time.

Test Plan for Agile


Unlike waterfall model, in an agile model, test plan is written and updated for every release.  The agile test plan consists types of testing done in that iteration like test data requirements, infrastructure, test environments and test results. 


Typical test plans in agile includes-


1) Testing Scope

2) New functionalities which are being tested

3) Level or Types of testing based on the features complexity

4) Load and Performance Testing

5) Infrastructure Consideration

6) Mitigation or Risks Plan

7) Resourcing

8) Deliverables and Milestones


Agile Testing Strategies


Agile testing life cycle spans through four stages

(a) Iteration 0

During the first stage or iteration 0, you perform initial setup tasks. It includes selecting people for testing, installing testing tools, scheduling resources (usability testing lab), etc. The following steps are set to achieve in Iteration 0

a) Establishing a business case for the project

b) Establish the boundary conditions and the project scope

c) Outline the key requirements and use cases that will drive the design trade-offs

d) Outline one or more candidate architectures

e) Calculating the risk

f) Cost estimation and prepare a preliminary project

(b) Construction Iterations

The second phase of testing is Construction Iterations, the maximum number of the testing occurs during this phase. This phase is observed as a set of iterations to build an increment of the solution.  In order to do that, within each iteration, the team implements a hybrid of practices from XP, Scrum, Agile modelling, and agile data and so on.

In construction iteration, agile team follows the prioritized requirement practice: With each iteration they take the most essential requirements remaining from the work item stack and implement them.

Construction iteration is divided into two, confirmatory testing and investigative testing.  Confirmatory testing concentrates on verifying that the system fulfils the intent of the stakeholders as described to the team to date, and is performed by the team.  While the investigative testing finds the problem that confirmatory team have skipped or ignored.  In Investigative testing, tester determines the potential problems in the form of defect stories. Investigative testing deals with common issues like integration testing, load/stress testing and security testing.

Again for, confirmatory testing there are two aspects developer testing and agile acceptance testing. Both of them are automated to ensure continuous regression testing throughout the lifecycle.  Confirmatory testing is the agile equivalent of testing to the specification.

Agile acceptance testing is a mixture of traditional functional testing and traditional acceptance testing as the development team, and stakeholders are doing it together.  While developer testing is a mix of traditional unit testing and traditional service integration testing.  Developer testing verifies both the application code and the database schema.

(c) Release End Game or Transition Phase

The goal of “Release, End Game” is to deploy your system successfully into production.  The activities include in this phase are training of end users, support people and operational people.  Also, it includes marketing of the product release, back-up & restoration, finalization of system and user documentation.

The final testing stage includes full system testing and acceptance testing.   In accordance to finish your final testing stage without any obstacles, you should have to test the product more rigorously while it is in construction iterations. During the end game, testers will be working on its defect stories.

(d) Production

After release stage, the product will move to the production stage.


 The Agile Testing Quadrants


The agile testing quadrants separates the whole process in four Quadrants and helps to understand how agile testing is performed.

a) Agile Quadrant I – The internal code quality is the main concern in this quadrant, and it consists of test cases which are technology driven and are implemented to support the team, it includes

1. Unit Tests

2. Component Tests

b) Agile Quadrant II – It consists test cases that are business driven and are implemented to support the team.  This Quadrant focuses on the requirements. The kind of test performed in this phase is

1. Testing of examples of possible scenarios and workflows

2. Testing of User experience such as prototypes

3. Pair testing

c) Agile Quadrant III – This quadrant delivers feedback to quadrants one and two.  The test cases can be used as the basis to perform automation testing.  In this quadrant, many rounds of iteration reviews are carried out which builds confidence in the product.  The kind of testing done in this quadrant is

1. Usability Testing

2. Exploratory Testing

3. Pair testing with customers

4. Collaborative testing

5. User acceptance testing


d) Agile Quadrant IV – This quadrant focuses on the non-functional requirements such as performance, security, stability, etc.  With the help of this quadrant, the application is made to deliver the non-functional qualities and expected value.

1. Non-functional tests such as stress and performance testing

2. Security testing with respect to authentication and hacking
3. Infrastructure testing

4. Data migration testing

5. Scalability testing

6. Data migration testing

7. Scalability testing

8. Load testing

In the world of software development, the term agile typically refers to any approach to project management that strives to unite teams around the principles of collaboration, flexibility, simplicity, transparency, and responsiveness to feedback throughout the entire process of developing a new program or product.  And agile testing generally means the practice of testing software for bugs or performance issues within the context of an agile workflow.

Testing using Agile Methodology is the buzzword in the industry as it yields quick and reliable testing results. The following course is designed for beginners with no Agile Experience.

Unlike the WaterFall method, Agile Testing can begin at the start of the project with continuous integration between development and testing. Agile Testing is not sequential (in the sense it's executed only after coding phase) but continuous.

Agile team works as a single team towards a common objective of achieving Quality. Agile Testing has shorter time frames called iterations (say from 1 to 4 weeks). This methodology is also called release, or delivery driven approach since it gives a better prediction on the workable products in short duration of time.


Oniyosys Agile Testing Methodology and Approach



We understand the QA challenges that can arise when implementing testing in an Agile environment: Communication on larger-scale Agile projects with globally distributed teams; incorporating risk planning and avoidance; accounting for management loss of controlling time and budget; maintaining flexibility versus planning; and not getting side-tracked by speed of delivery over quality software.


Using a collaborative network-based approach, Oniyosys defines clear, shared goals and objectives across all teams both internally and client-side for improved velocity, quality software, and customer user satisfaction — resulting in stakeholder buy-in for metrics that matter.

Fully transparent updates and reports are shared with a strong focus on immediate feedback, analysis and action.


Our metrics provide:

  • Information used to target improvements — minimizing mistakes and rework
  • Purposeful evaluation for actionable takeaways — Assisting our clients utilize resources effectively
  • Insights for process optimization — predicting possible problems; enabling clients to fix defects immediately rather than later reducing overall costs




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