Agile manifesto was written 15 years ago and since then; it had led to the greatest paradigm shifts software industry has ever experienced. The major areas it focused on include:
- Individual and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
Now the question arises that how does agile development team handle bugs, defects, and other issues? They obviously need to look for a technique that does not interfere with their agile process.
Read on the following ways that focus on using these four values to develop a bug-free
Circumventing Bugs – Individuals and Interactions
Organizations must encourage the interaction between the project manager and the developers. They can rigorously review the code and pinpoint any shortcomings. Interacting with developers in this manner guarantees a very tight code with minimum defects.
Following this process, developers submit code from a branch, team members test the changes, see changed sets and the files affected, submit the latest version, vote on the request, and finally merge or discard the request.
Having various people interact this way is one method to use the agile manifesto to circumvent bugs.
Fixing Bugs Rapidly – Working Software
Agile testers do not have a documented policy regarding dealing with the bugs. They just do it; this happens particularly in the case of blocker bugs to guarantee the software performance. They fix the bugs at the time of discovery bugs and include them in the present sprint when they have the capacity. If they are unable to resolve the issue in real-time, they can simply adopt a formerly deployed working version within eight minutes of detecting a bug.
One approach cannot be followed in all teams and at all situations. However, fixing the bugs as early as possible, and maintaining lean inventory, is the main aim of the agile developers.
Developer Success and Test Cases – Customer Collaboration
In the case of agile development, customers are also developers. In some cases, the customer detects the bugs and reports it to the customer support team. In this case, testers work together with the customers to understand the issue and fix it rapidly. After this, they write test cases. They don’t fix a bug without writing a test case for automatic future detection.
Post-Deploy Monitoring – Responding to Variations
Users always tend to look for the latest methods to customize the software according to their workflow. Companies design a feature for a particular scenario and users adjust those features as per their workflow. These continuing variations can only be answered with post-deploy monitoring.
Following some of these above agile methodologies can help you adopt to developing a bug-free software.