With more enterprises transitioning their software development initiatives into the agile mode, the popularity of agile testing is soaring. In fact, studies estimate the global demand for agile development and testing to be worth over $30 billion by 2026.

On one side, consumers are increasingly demanding faster and more powerful digital experiences across all touchpoints. On the other, employees need to be empowered with the right digital capabilities to always meet or exceed customer expectations.

Since both these fronts involve software-driven initiatives, enterprise application development is a core element of any modern business, irrespective of size or scale. As application development scales the agile route, agile testing becomes the mainstay.

What Is Agile Testing?

Enterprises are increasingly transitioning their development philosophy into a productized approach to succeed in a digital-first world. This results in continuous updates and evolution in alignment with market trends. In other words, they have adopted the agile mode of software development for progressive growth.

Traditional testing approaches do not work well with agile principles. Hence, the concept of agile testing makes its presence felt in modern application development projects. In simple terms, agile testing refers to the incremental approach to testing the software developed following an agile approach. It depends considerably on provisioning customer feedback, keeping sophistication at bay, promoting flexible and adaptable development. As a result, agile testing enables a complete and error-free version to be deployed finally for end-users.

More so, it deviates considerably from the traditional testing approach. The latter is where the test engineers work on validating an application after the completion of development. For every iteration, test engineers work to include as many tests as possible to ensure rapid verification.

Why Should Enterprises Adopt an Agile Testing Strategy for Success?

Gartner expects that nearly 95% of all new digital workloads will be on the cloud by 2025. The accelerated shift to SaaS and the widespread use of agile principles to set up new-age productized digital services will combine to present a sizeable opportunity for agile testing. To that end, the traditional approaches to testing will not be able to seamlessly categorize, automate and leverage the right tools to handle end-to-end testing management. In essence, agile testing is the need of the hour as enterprises seek to transform their digital experience significantly.

Bringing testing on par with development is the real challenge that most enterprises will be desperate to solve. By correctly applying agile principles, enterprises can build a strong and reliable foundation for their digital products. At ACCELQ, we develop custom test automation products that help establish agile testing goals across your enterprise’s digital landscape.

Get in touch with us to know more about test automation and how ACCELQ can help deliver a competitive advantage to your digital landscape through quality engineering supported by our world-class automation products and framework.