Software Quality Assurance and Testing:
Review on Agile Methodology for Software Quality Assurance & Testing
Supervisor: Ms. Premalatha Sampath By: Gargi Muwal
ID: 21403399
Submission date: 05/03/2015
Abstract
Agile Methodology is the one of the most popular software development methodology. It is the lightest weighted, flexible and customer oriented methodology. This objective of this report is to presents the review on agile methodology for software quality assurance and testing. Agile methodologies are well known for integrated testing method, easy to adopt changes and customer oriented but some issues are stimulated and highlighting these methodologies are not developed enough to be performed on large scale. The paper includes literature review to support this article which emphasis on the challenges and factors, which are associated with quality assurance and testing for agile methodology.
Contents
1. Introduction 4
2. Literature Review 5
3. Literature Map 13
4. Discussion 14
5. Concept Matrix 15
6. Conclusion 16
7. References 17
1. Introduction
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