1. Importance of Exploratory Testing in Agile Environment

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3. Why Exploratory Testing Complements Requirements of Agile Methodology? Make Testers More Productive In an agile environment, programmers and testers have to work as a single team. Also, the testers have to coordinate consistently with various stakeholders in the project – developers, project managers, business analysts, and customer. That is why; each tester needs to learn all aspects of the software and understand business requirements. Exploratory testing requires testing professionals to write and execute test scenarios at a time. The in-depth product knowledge helps testers to design tests and write test cases more efficiently.

4. Provide Instant Feedback to Programmers Agile methodology requires all software development and testing activities into short work cycles or sprints. But the timeframe of these sprints does not exceed 30 days. Hence, the developers require testers to share instant feedback on the software. Exploratory testing enables testers to perform a variety of tests without any initial planning. The QA professionals have to uncover bugs in the software by writing and executing test cases simultaneously. Hence, they can write and execute test cases faster based on specific features or behaviours of the software. However, the testers can still uncover all defects in the software despite initial test planning.

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