From the course: Introduction to Agile Development Practices: Bring Agile to Your Development Pipelines

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Choosing your testing regimen

Choosing your testing regimen

- [Narrator] One of the most important decisions you'll have to make for your project is how to handle testing. In this section, we're going to explore some of the options that work best with agile development. The first, and I think the best way to test a software project, especially in an agile environment, is of course to use test driven development. We talked about this earlier, and I always default to this option because automating your code and interface testing will save you time down the road. If you're able to go with this route. You just need to adjust your sprint workloads to account for the extra test suite development time. You don't necessarily have to create user stories for testing, just adjust the sprint expectation. That being said, time platform and resource constraints are going to make that option difficult or impossible for some teams, so take that into account when planning this step. On the flip side of the testing coin is manual testing. Now, this can be done…

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