How Agilitest's Jenkins interface will ease your test life
Tags: agile, testing, beginners, devops
Published: 2022-07-28 09:03:00

_When we plan to validate the development of a solution, whatever it is, the same constraints are inexorably repeated: What is our final quality objective? How many resources do we have?_

_Let's take a step-by-step look at this and discover how Agilitest's Jenkins deployment interface will make your life easier._

## Compose your test strategy

In testing, the basic principles described by the ISTQB allow us to see more clearly what good tests will (or will not) bring to the team. In this way, we can anticipate many errors and pitfalls and maximize the efficiency of the testing effort.

The test strategies will ensure that the validation teams are guided in their approach by standards, models and simply good testing practices that have already proven their effectiveness. It is possible to mix several strategies according to all the criteria that are important to us, such as risks, safety, hazards, resources and their expertise, technology, objectives and finally standards and regulations.

You will be able to choose among the 7 strategies listed in the ISTQB Syllabus:

- **Analytical** strategies
- **Model-based** strategies
- **Methodical** strategies
- **Process or standard based** strategies
- **Dynamic / reactive** strategies (shift right)
- **Consultative** strategies
- **Anti-regression** strategies

## What should we test first?

The answer obviously depends on the context, depending on the objectives, the means of the team, or the delays. Whatever happens, it will always be necessary to find a way between the business priorities of the solution, their criticality and their relative fragility.

From experience, the priority will often be set by the business risks to deliver the best level of quality in relation to what the end customer expects.There is one thing we can play on: our ability to leverage our testing performance for a given time and budget. This is where test automation comes in, with its undeniable advantages and pitfalls.

## How to avoid the pitfalls of test automation ?

In practice, we will identify the automatable functional scopes from the start. The multi-chanel approach of Agilitest opens a lot of doors for you to judiciously expand this scope and thus optimize your testing efforts.
You should assume that you will not be able to automate everything, and in fact it is a practice to be avoided. Even though Agilitest will allow you to increase the coverage that can be automated with quick and important returns on investment, the right recipe will be to complete an important coverage of automatic tests with exploratory tests performed by real users and/or functional experts in simulated production conditions.

Any good automation tester knows that you should not automate everything or you will increase the maintenance costs excessively (with a fixed budget, remember). With equal priority, we will therefore automate very repetitive functional areas that are crucial and whose test data is potentially tree-like. Another powerful advantage of Agilitest is that it makes it very easy to set up test campaigns that will be driven by our data (Data Driven Testing). This gives us even more confidence in the overall quality by ensuring improved depth of our test cases.

## What about test maintenance?
Read [full article here](https://www.agilitest.com/blog/test-well-yes-but-what-how-or-how-agilitests-jenkins-interface-will-simplify-your-life), an article by Emmanuel Duperray.