Automation is an essential component of agile development. This is especially evident where testing is concerned. At the end of each iteration, sprint, or release, our working product is expected to be of shippable quality, even in its embryonic stages. Traditional development methods push system and acceptance testing to the end of the release cycle. This back-end testing is typically manually intensive, possibly supplemented by the use of semiautomated tools.
About The Author
Ken Collier is the former director of Cutter's Data Analytics & Digital Technologies practice. He is a leader in combining agile methods with data warehousing (DW), business intelligence (BI), and advanced analytics -- disciplines that present a unique set of challenges to the incremental/evolutionary style of agile development. Mr. Collier has successfully adapted agile techniques to DW/BI to create the Agile Analytics style. He continues… Read More
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