In today's software testing industry, trends and methodologies are continuously evolving. With focus on quality and end-user satisfaction in the limited time frame, competition is also increasing. Since software testing becomes a part of business model, testing methodology is changing accordingly. We will talk about the methodologies in the software testing industry.

Agile Methodology

With the change in the mind-set of the end-user and the increasing market competition, organizations are now skeptical about going for traditional testing model like waterfall mode. Now, organizations are coming up with new strategies to save time, resources, money and at the end delivering a bug free product and meeting the customers' requirements. In this scenario, agile testing proves to be the best. The main focus of agile testing is to save time and to get the visibility of the product to be tested. In such case, customer interaction and participation forms an integral part. Agile testing goes through different processes.

Once the end-user is ready with the requirements, the vendor or in-house team, which includes the testing team, analyze the requirements. These requirements may be dynamic in nature, which keep on changing as the development happens.

Now after analyzing the requirements, designing team analyzes the issues that can occur. Simultaneously the testing team and the end-user interaction are also important. So that there is a consistency maintained in the development.

Now testing and designing team works side by side. Designing team in one hand works on the design of the product while testing team works on test cases and send the reviews to end-user and the designing team.

Now when the designing team design the code, testing team checks the code for errors. The designing team correct errors if they find any and this iteration continues till the code is ready to implement. During this process, the user requirement and the usability of the product may change.

With this kind of dynamic requirement tradition approach would not yield the desired result.