Are you a test manager wondering where your services are required? Well, in an agile environment, where managers are supposed to facilitate teams, it is challenging for the managers to make their space. They use different software testing tools, test management tools and other tools that are integrated with the system to achieve best results. It is not easy to shift to agile methodologies, there are always challenges that come your way. Let’s have a look at the challenges that testing teams will face in an agile environment:
Challenge # 1: Stop Multitasking
When all developers, testers and managers are multi-tasking, things get a little serious. Each team member has nearly more than three projects and the turnover rate of testers and developers is relatively higher than ever before. The major reason behind this is that they lack a test manager to handle all the management tasks efficiently. It is understandable that teams have unrealistic goals that cannot be achieved easily, but it is possible to lift extra burden from their shoulders by stop multi-tasking. It is never a good idea that your team members are overly worked and stressed out with load.
Since the management teams want to handle their teams efficiently, they need to use a more optimistic use of the agile approaches. Management decides to use a single approach that the team works on one single project at a time and has all the capabilities and skills the teams need. Even if they need to be collocated, they did not work on just one product at a time.
Challenge #2: Focus on Technical Excellence
So when a test manager figures out his way forward from managing the teams, it is time to improve the other areas like:
- End-to-end test automation
- Improve the build times
- Unit test automation
Managers had to change their previous decision because everything was urgent and had come back. When development teams have used shortcuts in their previous work and have not used the test management tools when required, it causes problems. These teams also had to make some technical changes in their testing processes, otherwise the possibility of getting the desired results gets low.
When we talk about achieving success in the agile test management process, it is important to ensure that all teams are on the right track. These teams also use test management tools to improve software quality and also ensure that the project is achieved in time. There is a wide variety of tools available in the market, but relying on a single tool is not possible. There are different types of projects that require various kinds of tools and their integrations to utilize them for achieved their goals and objectives.
