Delivering faster and with quality is the dream of any team working in development. Given the dynamics of today’s times, things change very quickly. The market had no choice but to adapt. Much more than a methodology, the Agile movement promotes a new mindset every day, which impacts a company’s culture in a broader way.
But what about quality in this context? Do they sit on the bench waiting for their time to enter the field, or do they play along?
The purpose of Agile QA is to act continuously. It means being there from the beginning, when the rules of the game are agreed upon. It helps to standardize expectations and record the moves. After all, if the golden rule that what cannot be measured cannot be improved is valid, it is also true that you cannot measure what is not standardized. And quality is essentially about establishing the requirements and determining the standard that is expected as a response.
We live in a society that has a certain aversion to waiting. TikTok, with its standard of very short videos, led to the trend and led YouTube to launch Shorts and Instagram to invest in Reels. In the corporate world, it could not be any different. There is no longer room for waiting until the end to launch. And this also applies to quality. If quality is not present from the very beginning and is not applied to each delivery, the risk and financial loss can be very high. Without this continuous monitoring, what will happen is that delivery is faster, but with errors. It is like delivering a pizza very quickly, but undercooked or with the wrong ingredients.
Even worse! If you leave it to test later, finding the source of the error can be as difficult as finding out where Waldo is. Imagine having to revisit each step, without knowing if changing one feature affected another. Have you ever stopped to think about the amount of time invested? What if the rules changed and no one renegotiated? And how can you keep track of the issue if the documentation is not up to date and stored?
When combined with the Agile movement, quality ceases to be a bottleneck and becomes an ally in reducing costs and project delivery times. By working from the beginning of the project, it becomes easier to combine acceptance criteria at each stage, helping with planning and defining the backlog. This establishes continuous communication with developers, allowing for a healthier development environment.
And that’s where we change the perspective from mere quality control to quality assurance as a whole, with a more intelligent distribution of QA effort.
It takes a little more work at the beginning, but it gradually decreases over the course of the project, allowing the entire team to focus their efforts on what is really necessary to ensure a smoother final delivery. Defects are discovered sooner and waste and rework are reduced. Have you ever thought about leaving testing until the end and discovering a flaw that will require a whole new development effort? That’s a mistake! And a mistake that hits the post doesn’t change the score.
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