Create Your Successful Agile Project

Test at All Levels So Change Is Easy

Think about the kinds of testing your team might do:

• Automated unit testing for the code to know that we can refactor easily.

• Automated and exploratory story testing (acceptance testing) for a story to know that we have satisfied the story’s criteria.

• Automated feature testing for feature sets to know that the feature set looks and feels as if we have a coherent view of it.

• Automated smoke testing for a build to know if the build is any good.

• Automated system testing for the entire system, from the API so we have the ability to quickly know if we broke anything.

• System testing from the GUI, possibly with some automation, so we know the first interaction the user has works.

• Exploratory testing at the system ...