Optimized Order of Software Testing Techniques in Agile Process – A Systematic Approach

The designing, development of a software product needs lot of efforts whereas software testing is also a very challenging task but it is equally mandatory activity in order to ensure the quality of the product before shipping to customer. When it comes to the Agile model under which software builds are developed very frequently and development goes on a very high pace, software testing becomes more important and critical. Organizations following the agile methodology, encounter number of problems in formulating a software testing process unless they come up with a systematic testing approach based on right testing technique at a proper stage of the agile process. This paper addresses the relevant software testing techniques feasible at different stages of the agile process and proposes a dedicated software testing framework producing quality software products developed under agile methodology.