Agile testing is a software testing

Software testing

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software...

 practice that follows the principles of agile software development

Agile software development

Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams...

. Agile testing does not emphasize testing procedures and focuses on ongoing testing against newly developed code until quality software from an end customer's perspective results. Agile testing is built upon the philosophy that testers need to adapt to rapid deployment cycles and changes in testing patterns.

Overview

Agile testing involves testing from the customer perspective as early as possible, testing early and often as code becomes available and stable enough, since working increments of the software are released often in agile software development. This is commonly done by using automated acceptance testing to minimize the amount of manual labor involved.