Agile Test Management, Methods, and Techniques

Abstract

Management includes the tasks planning, organization, management, and control of an activity. A project manager is someone who plans, organizes, monitors, and controls a project. To be able to do this, they need knowledge, experience, information, and competence. To understand the management of agile testing, we first have to take a careful look at how agile projects work: In most agile process models such as Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming and Lean Management, testing is not is explicitly addressed as we know it from traditional models—it is implicitly assumed that this is of course covered by the agile teams. The test is therefore inextricably linked to the development. There may be testers, i.e., specialists with a focus on quality assurance and acceptance testing, but a separate test track does not appear in most process models. Team members with a test focus thus cover several roles: on the one hand that of the tester, on the other hand that of the test manager and finally that of the quality manager.