Actual Need of Sprint For Testers

First of all, we need to understand that what is Sprint?

Sprint is a period of time to complete the assigned tasks before the deadline. And in that period following things can be performed -

1. Task Creation

2. Sprint Planning

3. Task Assign to a particular person

4. Time estimation

5. Start the sprint

6. Update the status of tasks according to the progress (To-Do to Dev-Done)

* (To-Do is the initial status for any task at the time of creation of that and Dev-Done represents that task has been completed from the side of the developer and Tester can start the testing after deploying the build on the staging server.)

7. Start the testing with QA status

8. Update the status according to the working of the functionality

* (If there is any bug then report that and RE-OPEN that bug otherwise, update the status as QA-Done)

9. Perform Re-Testing

10. Complete Sprint

Why Sprint is helpful for the testers?

If any task is already assigned to developers then they can take more time than actually required to complete that task but if sprint is planned then, nobody can take his/her work lightly.

Sprint is not just for the developers, it is for all the members of the team which is working to achieve a goal in the limited time period. It motivates the testers and all the team members to complete his task in already estimated time because every task takes time according to the complexity of the code and the functionality which is required for the end user.

Sometimes, developers show their laziness and take too much time to write the optimized and exact code. So sprint inspires them to write their code faster and more perfectly.

The advantages of Sprint:

1. Motivates the team members to finish their tasks at the right time (before the deadline)

2. Can track the performance of each and every person of the team

3. Sprint decreases the chances of ignorance to complete a task

4. It helps to set the priorities for each and every task

5. It can be helpful in stakeholder management

The disadvantage of Sprint:

There is a very high probability that quality can be decreased of the product because sprint forces to complete the task before the deadline. Fear of deadline creates a very different environment when a tester or developer can be left without testing or develop any functionality of the project.

Conclusion :

Sprint is very helpful and required to maintain a disciplined environment in the team but fear of deadline can frustrate the team member or team members can feel too much workload in just a little time period.