Here are few benefits of the testing of any software in the Agile environment. Agile environment help to make the application much better than other environments. It does not take so much time and helps a lot of Developers and Test Engineers to make a high quality application.

1) Greater and helpful collaboration: When the scrum of developers, architects, testers, and coders work together with more face to face communication and to achievement of a goal throughout the entire lifecycle of development and testing the software bypassing documentation handled or distributed by Project Manager (Scrum Master) processes such as back and forth of emails, papers and other mediums, faster and quicker test results are achieved.

2) Takes less time in quick releases: The sequentially incremented and iterative (models which have iterations to perform any task in several ways) models decreases the total time between specifying test requirements and validating results. This ensures that the project release cycles do not have any delay with minimum bugs.

3) Cost-efficiency (Less Cost): Making the centralized software testing tools and resources for the completion of any task or the process of software testing in an agile environment improves the quality, resource utilization and further decreases the cost incurred in software purchasing, set-up at production site/server, and maintenance over the client site/development site.

This drive is more focused on the overall quality and the performance of the product. The process of bug finding and bug fixing in each and every stage of development helps in reducing the overall cost of the project and ensure it that release of the product or application will be done on the exact time without any delay.

4) Tighter and fixed alignment: One of the basic and most important characteristics of agile is fixing defects rapidly with perfection, which is only possible when the teams of testers and developers work in a close-knit environment.

Because of that they can communicate with each other deeply about the functionality of the application/software and can share immediate feedback, which further creates a path among them in fixing of bugs and errors because of a good relationship between each other (developer and test engineer) while the code is still fresh.

5) Improved quality: Agile testing clearly provides those results which can be recognized very easily in short cycles, and provides visibility on the level of project quality also after the release of new build with the perfection of code and a lot of efforts during testing.

This helps the team to take corrective measures at the right time to enhance the product quality when enhancement in the features are possible of the application/software. It also keeps away an application or product from developing major defects and helps companies to optimize application quality and performance in less time because of focus of the whole scrum on their assigned tasks for an estimated time.

Happy Testing