An Empirical Study of Agile Testing in A Distributed Software Development Project

Abstract

The software engineering industry has witnessed an increasing number of innovative methods and practices in the last decade at different levels, ranging from development processes to software projects and from testing to verification software products. Extensive studies have been conducted empirically to investigate and discuss the impact of using agile principles in the testing process on distributed teams across geographical boundaries. This empirical study has a similar focus, using a real case study in a distributed domain and applying agile testing to a selected team, compares their outcome with another three teams to determine the impact of involving a client in a testing process to overcome distributed development challenges. The findings indicate a highly positive impact on team productivity when using agile tests as compared with other groups using central distributed team testing. All teams met a 90% testing requirement. However, the group applying agile testing verified more than 99% of all requests entered into the testing process, a notable difference supporting the productivity of any development project.