Chapter 31
Agile Testing
Software development life-cycle methodologies are either iterative or follow a sequential model, for example, waterfall. The agile development methodology was developed to respond to changes quickly. These methods are people-oriented rather than process-oriented.
Agile methodology is a collection of values, principles, and practices that incorporates iterative development, test, and feedback into a new style of application development. Iterative and agile development provide a different approach to developing applications than traditional “waterfall” methodologies.
Whereas waterfall development develops applications by performing big up-front design first, agile development avoids that approach and develops the requirements ...
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