The testing methodology is usually highly dependent on the development methodology; sometimes to supplement it and sometimes to cater to it. Identifying a suitable acceptance or system test strategy becomes very challenging when development follows Scrum Model. This is because of lean documentation and the gap between daily sprint output and system level workflow order.

Most of the times, in such cases, the system/acceptance testing teams test the integrated features at the end of the sprint when the complete modules and features are available. The downside in this approach is that the testing and defect fixing cycle goes on long after development is over and the development resources have to be deviated from current Sprints.

This paper describes an innovative and proven Test Strategy and methodology. This approach enables a system testing cycle parallel to development Scrum and thus cuts down the testing lag time by 50 to 80 percent.

Somesh Dwivedi graduated from IT-BHU with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has seven years experience in software testing and quality assurance. Somesh has worked for major clients across North America and Europe in Banking, Finance, Aviation, E-governance and Energy sector. Somesh’ main area of interest in quality assurance research and development is simplifying software processes and documentation to make them more productive. Somesh is currently working with Sopra India Ltd. as a Test Lead

Vinay Agarwal has eight years experience in Automation and Manual software testing. Along with B.Sc. from University of Rajasthan, he completed GNIIT. He is certified CSTE (Ex), ISEB and ISO 9001:2000 internal auditor. Currently working with Sopra India Pvt. Ltd. as Test Lead; responsible for Test Management activities like Estimation, Scheduling, Project Tracking, Task Allocation, Metrics, Risk and issue handling etc. Also involved in implementing automation practices which are generic in nature and can be used across the projects

Gurleen Kaur has 6.5 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance. She in her current role leads and drives software testing projects. Gurleen has worked for various clients across geographies in her association with TCS, Xansa and Sopra. Most of her experience is in Banking, Finance and Aviation domain with clients like GE Commercial finance, Barclays Bank and Virgin Atlantic. She has done MCA from NIT (REC), Bhopal after completing her B.Sc. from Stephens College, DU and is certified ISTQB (Advance Level), Six Sigma Black Belt and OCA. Her main areas of interest are Process improvement and identifying resource and organization development needs.