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Test planning for an Agile sprint

Can anyone offer any tips or experience on developing a test plan for an Agile sprint? Most of the time our team simply creates a “Test Feature X” task and goes about writing ad-hoc test cases. There typically isn’t much strategic forethought put into how features will be tested and how we’ll communicate the expectations and results to the rest of the development team and our users.

Do your stories include tasks across disciplines? How do you do capacity planning?

My organization does web projects and employs a handful of disciplines like backend dev, frontend, BA, UX, graphic design, QA. We’ve been pushing to have tasks for every discipline in our sprints with explicit dependencies (Can’t build a page without comps, can’t do comps without wires, etc). I’ve heard some other organizations say that scrum is only for dev tasks. Are we barking up the wrong tree? And, if not, are there any good tools for doing capacity planning when only certain resources can do certain tasks?

Splitting user stories into smaller stories

I’ve been reading various techniques for splitting large user stories in helpful ways, such as by user workflow through the system etc. What I’m struggling with is how to word these smaller stories if all they achieve is facilitating the next step in the process and not delivering the application’s main benefit to the user.

Is the following diagrams correct for RAD and Agile methodologies?

I do not know if this would be the right stack exchange site to ask this question but I have been researching on RAD (Rapid Application Development) and Agile methodologies and was trying to find their diagrams but if I google images this, it comes up with many different diagrams. So based on the images I drew my own diagrams on this.