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Combined Acceptance Testing

Last post 01:50 pm February 1, 2018 by Timothy Baffa
3 replies
Mona Siddique
11:01 pm January 18, 2018

Hi There,

If for the current sprint(A) Combined Acceptance Testing(CAT) cannot be performed, could we move to the next sprint(B) and revisit Sprint A once a CAT window is available?

Ian Mitchell
06:19 am January 19, 2018

It sounds as though there is an inability to test the increment satisfactorily and meet the Definition of Done. According to the Scrum Guide, what should happen when the Sprint Goal can no longer be met? Also, why are the Development Team planning to do work which they are unable to test?

Mona Siddique
10:45 pm January 31, 2018

an update on my understanding and team planning. ideally we want to test the interface in the early sprints and incrementally evolve it going forward rather than waiting for the later sprints.  we will be using definition of done to track our integration testing, there is still complex planning required to achieve this!

 

Timothy Baffa
01:50 pm February 1, 2018

What does your Definition of Done (DoD) look like, Mona?   Are you able to deliver something functional and of value to the business at the end of each sprint?   If not, what are the reasons why?   

Please understand that if you're not delivering a potentially-releasable product increment that is both testable and reviewable, then you are simply not doing Scrum.

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