Student Name: EJ Brand

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Title of Blog: The Effectiveness of Agile Testing Quadrants

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Agile testing can be useful in any group-oriented project.  Though it may seem like a simple outline, the results can prove quite advantageous to any group who is trying to make the most optimized version of their product.  The agile testing quadrants are a series of four boxes that indicate the features of the project that are working and not working, as well as group practices that should continue to be done and practices that should be put to a stop.  Giving any group the ability to delineate their strengths and weaknesses on paper can improve the group as whole. 

A study was conducted that tested the effectiveness of the agile testing quadrants on a large-scale software testing project.  Because software constantly has to be maintained and changed due to arising complexity, it is imperative that software engineers are able to identify potential weaknesses in their product immediately and be able to enhance the product for their customers.  This study says “Our results offer new evidence that agile testing practices actually work, dramatically improving development quality and productivity,” (Talby).  The software was eventually used to aid the Israeli Air Force in their endeavors to more reliable plane maneuverability software.

This is relevant to my group’s project because recently my group has had to make a huge overhaul.  Our original plan was to create a website to be able to judge 77 finalists on their pitches and be able to sort the data accordingly.  However, during the creation of the website we realized the intricacies of sorting finalists, so as a group we decided to change our product to a survey creator called Qualtrics.  We found that this survey creation tool that made sorting the top finalist pitches easy and simple.  After all the judges had turned in their thoughts about a certain pitch, our client would be able to see the results of the top finalists and also discuss them with the other judges.

Changing from one medium to another was a big decision.  On the Skype call my team and I were discussing the website’s technicality and our lack of knowledge on advanced PHP website creation.  Using the testing quadrants we were able to make the big decision to move from the website to Qualtrics.  As a team it takes a degree of honesty and responsibility to be able to start over, however due to the agile testing quadrants we were able to make the transition smoothly.

Work Cited

Crispin, L., & Gregory, J. (2009). Agile testing: A practical guide for testers and agile teams. Pearson Education.

Talby, D., Keren, A., Hazzan, O., & Dubinsky, Y. (2006). Agile software testing in a large-scale project. Software, IEEE, 23(4), 30-37.