Agile Testing
- Helps your agile projects to succeed, mitigating the risks of IT change
- Removes the bottleneck of traditional QA cycles, reducing time-to-market
- Improves your organization’s overall agility, creating competitive edge
- Prevents schedule slippage, improving customer confidence
- Improves the quality of developed code, reducing QA overhead costs
- Improves your capability with Agile testing tools, improving productivity
Agile Software Development offers the potential for high quality software, delivered in internet time. But the success of an agile project often hangs on the strength of the testing, and agile testing is hard because it forces us to challenge so many assumptions about the way testing is carried out.
More and more companies are recognising the benefits of agile, but are finding the transition difficult. A major source of transition difficulty lies in understanding the role of QA & Testing, as agile development calls for a radical re-think of the style, timing and skill-sets required for software testing. Agile Testing is a whole new discipline that needs a new breed of tester. Traditional QA groups that don’t embrace the change will be unable to keep pace with the regression testing needs of highly iterative agile development cycles.
Companies that do not solve this Agile Testing ‘problem’ are doomed to see agile projects fail, and dismiss it as a ‘passing fad’. Those that do solve the Agile Testing ‘problem’ will succeed in releasing high-quality software, driving customer satisfaction, reducing time-to-market and engendering a ‘culture of quality’ in the whole IT organisation.
Test Ability, Test Agility
SQS consultants understand the challenges of working in an agile development environment. They are passionate about quality, and want everyone around them to feel the same way. Their technical skills give them the credibility to integrate seamlessly into any development team, and to engage in peer-to-peer technical conversations with developers.
That's why SQS consultants working on agile projects in top UK companies today are making such an impact. It's not just about testing, or use of particular tools. It's about extending ownership for quality to the entire team, making everyone quality-aware. That takes a particular set of skills and organisational understanding. We call it our "agile edge", and it's one of the many attributes that set SQS consultants apart from their competitors.
Testing Early and Often
SQS has always believed in the importance of testing early and often. It's a core principle running through our testing methodology, but takes on even greater significance in an agile testing context. Agile practices such as Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration ensure that bugs are detected as early as possible, contributing to better quality software.
Software quality is a key factor in rapid delivery of business value. Get quality right sooner, and you'll waste less time and money on release cycles and bug fixing. So, the higher the quality, the better the chance of delivery on time and to budget. It's plain common sense.
Delivering Customer Value
SQS has a proven track record in agile delivery. In 2004, SQS consultants played a key part in the successful launch of Egg Money Manager, the ground-breaking account aggregation service for the world's largest internet bank. With SQS’s help, the project was delivered in just three months with no significant defects. Since then the SQS agile testing story has gone from strength to strength.
Today, SQS is recognised by industry leaders as the UK's foremost company in the agile testing space. Our experience in this field is second to none. Talk to us about how SQS consultants can help your organisation raise its quality game, and to understand the benefits SQS can bring through agile testing.