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External Regulation and Agile Testing Conflicts

publish date: 2026/06/04 20:51:44.610627 UTC

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For large systems, there are testing standards that conflict with agile approaches. What is the specific conflict described?

External testing teams must use waterfall processes which prevent integration with agile sprints

Testing standards require test-first development which conflicts with agile's code-first approach

For large systems there are testing standards where a system build is handed over to an external testing team — this conflicts with the test-first and test-often approaches used in XP

Testing standards require all tests to be written in a specific formal language incompatible with agile tools

Correct Answer

For large systems there are testing standards where a system build is handed over to an external testing team — this conflicts with the test-first and test-often approaches used in XP

Explanation

For large systems, there are testing standards where a system build is handed over to an external testing team. This conflicts with the test-first and test-often approaches used in XP, where testing is integrated into the development process and run continuously by the development team itself.

Reference

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 9th edition

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