Factors To Consider For Selecting Agile Tools

April 26, 2013 - PRLog -- Adopting for agile environment is nothing new for any organization but at the same time they face a challenge of selecting right tools required for agile testing. While it is true that during selection the might know the kind of tool required for testing, but the challenge lies in selecting the best  one fitting to the present situation in the tool categories. The challenge with agile development lies in coordinating as well as managing multiple groups, locations and project. Further in agile development project complexity tends to increase as agile environment accepts changing plans and priorities in real life.  With proper Agile Tools these issues can be addressed successfully.

As happens with many teams they start the agile attempt by utilizing series of traditional tools that lacks essential features like facilitating agile planning and tracking by release or iteration, capability to perform easy changes to plans as well as priorities and failure to use feature like product backlog or user stories as main planning asset.

In agile development environment it is highly advisable not to store the project information in multiple tools as it prevents accurate and real time visibility. This is because agile development utilizes a tightly integrated process that coordinates detailed task, high-level feature planning, test planning, defect and test management and overall project tacking.

Selecting Agile Tools to ensure true support for cross-functional agile teams guarantee consolidating as well as facilitating the project planning, followed by tracking needs of the customers, project management, product management, programmers, testers in single environment for better consistency and collaboration.
In terms of organization structure, product planning, terminology, project scheduling, tracking and reporting every organization has its own way of working. Thus, the selected agile tools must have the capability to accommodate flexibility followed by letting organizations to define, plan and organize based on the unique needs of the organizations.

In agile environment complex requirement complex requirement might arise and thus it is necessary to provide team with simple straight forward planning, tracking and reporting system. Thus, the simpler the Agile Tools the better. Simultaneously, it must be ensured that selected tools are not replacing the benefits derived from day-to-day planning, product reviews, personal communication as well as retrospectives. Ease of use must also be considered.

Comparing the features of various tools is highly recommended as it helps to ensure that selected tools have the capability to successfully handle the sophisticated project structure, thousands of features followed by potentiality to perform thousands of tests and tasks.

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