We work with Scrum and I think we are on the right way, but one thing bothers me: the testers aren't part of the development cycle yet. Now I am thinking on how to involve the testers in the development team. Now it is seperated and the testers have their 'own' sprint.
Currently we have a C.I. environment. Everytime a developer has finished a user story, he checks in his code and the build server builds the code on every check-in.
What I want is that the testers test the user stories in the same sprint the user story is implemented. But I am struggling on how to set this up.
My main question is: where can the tester test the user story? They can't be testing on the build server because on every check-in it creates a new build and there are a lot of check-ins . So that's not an option. So, should I create a seperate server where the testers can deploy by theirself? Or..
My question is, how have you guys set this up? How have you integrated the testers in the develpment process?
You need a staging server and deploy a build every once in a while. Thats how we do it: CI->Dev->Staging->Live
Edit: I always feel like an asshole posting wikilinks but this article about Multi-Stage CI is good: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-stage_continuous_integration