Agile is all about developing quickly and having a shorter turnaround (iterations) resulting in an array of risks. Implementing manual testing practices around Agile reduces most of them, but can still have you compromise on the most essential factor – Coverage. A large amounting in unknown risks which surface near the end of the delivery cycle putting your sprints in a tizzy.

Of them Impact Analysis is something that goes out of control and has to be done very adeptly to ensure no issues fall between the cracks. As time progresses the cost of fixing defects rise exponentially and has a direct impact on the delivery dates. All of them add up to spiraling costs and lower profits.

A clear analysis of these implications point out that the following factors majorly impact the progress and outcome of sprints:

• Incomplete Functional Test – Functional tests need to cover all the aspects of the application. There should be maximum coverage to reduce maximum risks and ensure of no loose ends in most of the functional dependencies
• Increased test cycle Time – As development progresses impact gets more complex and hence the efforts required for testing increases exponentially. As you get closer to release dates, test cycle time need to be increased to ensure that a qualitative release goes live.
• Reduced Coverage – As the focus would be to test areas that have changed in the sprints most of the test cycles would compromise largely namely due to compressed time frames wherein it is practically not possible to complete a full regression cycle on the rest of the application leaving it susceptible to major impact flaws
• Insufficient Performance Evaluation – Many a times focusing a bit too much on functional aspects of an application during testing cycles the performance goals are set aside. Thus the application fails to meet up to performance baseline standards resulting in higher investments later on to rectify them.
• Improper Capacity Planning – Capacity planning is an important aspect of any application setup which is overlooked during development. Proper tests that could be executed during development could give a clear vision of the right setup required to support the right number of end users.

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