Sprint Testing
Sprint testing is the testing work performed within a single Scrum sprint — usually one to four weeks — covering the stories completed during that iteration, planned and executed within the same tight timebox as the development work it's verifying.
Because the timebox is fixed and short, sprint testing needs realistic scoping from the start — a story with inadequate time left for proper testing before sprint end is a planning problem to raise immediately, not something to quietly rush through at the last minute or silently skip.
Automation plays an outsized role here specifically because of the time constraint: a growing regression suite from prior sprints needs to keep running within each new sprint's testing time too, which becomes impossible to sustain manually as the product and its regression surface grow sprint over sprint.
