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In my last post,  Benefits of Early and Frequent Feedback in Agile development  I mentioned how Continuous Integration helps in early and frequent feedback. In this post, we are going to go deeper into the concept and see what exactly it does, how it does and its benefits and challenges. Continuous Integration is an automated system which wraps configuration management, software build, deployment and testing into one repeatable process. The best practice is to run the whole set of set into the new build (with all the new code check ins) at least once a day. This gives a feedback on the  build quality. If all the automated tests passed then the build can be used to perform deeper testing. Below are some of the activities carried out by CI: Code analysis Compilation of code and generating an executable file Perform Unit testing Deploying the build onto the testing environment Performing integration testing Generating reports In our project, nightly build and...

Exploratory testing plays an important role in Agile environment due to limited time available and limited details of the user stories. To get the best results out of exploratory testing, it should be combined with other experience based testing techniques. Some of the important features of exploratory testing in agile are: Test design and execution take place at the same time guided by prepared Test Charter The result of most recent tests are used to guide the next tests. As mentioned earlier, it is combined with other experienced based testing in order to get the best results It is a time boxed testing session and test charter provides the test conditions to cover.  Test Charter Test Charter is a statement of test objectives and test ideas (how to test) and mainly used in carrying out the exploratory testing. Below are some of the details included in preparing Test Charter: Actor : the expected user of the system Setup : the test environment set up needed to ca...