Agile Testing and Continuous Testing

In agile development, testing happens continuously throughout short iterations rather than as a separate final phase, with automated tests running as part of every build.

Testing Within a Sprint

In agile teams, testers work alongside developers within the same short iteration (sprint), testing features as they're built rather than waiting for a large batch of work to be "finished" before testing begins. This tight feedback loop catches issues while the relevant context is still fresh.

Continuous Testing in CI/CD

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines automatically run test suites every time code is pushed, giving developers near-immediate feedback on whether their change broke anything, well before it reaches a human reviewer or a later testing phase.

Common Mistakes

• Treating agile testing as an excuse to skip formal test documentation entirely, rather than adapting its level of detail to the team's needs.
• Letting an automated CI/CD test suite become so slow that developers start ignoring or skipping it.
• Testing only at the very end of a sprint instead of continuously as features are completed.
• Assuming continuous testing removes the need for any exploratory or manual testing.