4 Steps to Agile Development Success for Testers

Agile has dramatically changed the way testers work, asking you to be part of a close-knit Agile team and test as requirements and code are changing constantly. You need tracking tools to provide test results in-step with the development cycle that also support the work you do in a variety of test automation frameworks. That’s why we’ve put together a toolkit to help you jumpstart your Agile adoption. Fill out the form below to get Rally’s free Tester Toolkit.

Step 1: Learn the Basics

First, learn the basics with this set of resources, specifically designed for Testers, including:

“Continuous Quality: Shortening the Development and Test Feedback Loop Beyond Continuous Build” article: Agile practices emphasize the value of bringing testing forward in the development process, but has anyone ever explained to you how to actually make that happen? In this article, learn how you can get continuous visibility into the ongoing quality of your software releases.

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“A Real World Approach to Building in Continuous Quality” Webinar: To support your Agile transition, new processes, infrastructure, and lean principles can be applied to successfully support an entire development team that is taking responsibility for product quality. This on-demand Web seminar will explore proven "real-world" approaches that a development team can use to drive continuous quality improvement.

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“Moving from Test-Last to Test-Driven: Motivation and Strategies” Webinar: This webinar discusses the role of documentation, unit tests and acceptance tests on a test-driven project, and how test-driven development offers teams more flexibility in dealing with schedule pressure.

Step 2: Train Team and Pilot Tool

Train your team in record time by participating in online Agile jumpstart training with one of Rally's in-house Agile coaches. Then, begin your pilot project on Rally Enterprise, Rally's platform for complete Agile lifecycle management.

Step 3: Prove Agile Cost Savings with Rally’s Productivity Calculator and “The Agile Impact Report”

Prove cost savings of your Agile investment with a third-party study on the productivity of Agile teams and our Productivity Calculator. The study concluded that, as compared to industry averages, development teams using Agile practices were 37 percent faster to market, 16 percent more productive and able to maintain normal defect counts despite significant schedule compression.

The Productivity Analysis Calculator was designed to help companies and development teams analyze potential savings in time, money, and efficiency by using Agile and Rally solutions.

Step 4: Implementation

Replace your other tools with Rally’s Programmable Platform. By delivering a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) architecture specifically for software lifecycle management, Rally provides software-driven organizations with a programmable platform that extends the Rally application, connects disparate role-based tools and shares Rally data and views with other applications and Web portals.