Agile software testing in a large-scale project

Maintenance and agile development: Challenges, opportunities and future directions

“…Recent work has focused on methods and techniques for improving unit test suits [14][15][16], alongside with empirical studies on defects prediction [17] that aid planning. However, there are still various challenges to agile testing that go beyond unit testing that are not completely understood [18,19]. Although we consider visualization and analysis tools to be useful, we know that non-trivial refactorings are risky and time consuming due to the unstable characteristic of the system.…”

Quality Assurance in Scrum Applied to Safety Critical Software

“…A Scrum team is supposed to be self-sustained, not having to rely on an external quality management or assurance function like a QA manager or QA department. The latter has been a typical role in line organizations doing plan-based development [19,20]. First of all, a Scrum project enforces visibility and has frequent evaluation of status, progress and problems, which is used to re-plan and improve the project based on the most recent and updated knowledge.…”

Agile Project Management Principles

“…In this case, partial tests seem to be inadequate. However, regarding the Agile SW testing in a large-scale project research [11], the project team cut by an order of magnitude the time required to fix defects, defect longevity, and defect-management overhead. Even on such a large-scale project, the team achieved full regression testing at each iteration and developer testing.…”