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What do you put in your test plan?
Theme event This evening, January 18, I will be on stage during the TestNet theme event about Context-Driven Testing. The evening will start with a duo presentation by James Bach and Michael Bolton...
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250 hours of practice – January
As said in my post a couple of weeks ago, this year I would try to spend 250 hours on practicing and enhancing my testing skills. This post is a report on how I fared in January 2012. (Leaving my...
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A footnote on the future
A while ago I wrote a post called ‘Is testing dead?‘ in which I reacted to Alberto Savoia’s and James Whittaker’s Test is dead paradigm. In short the paradigm stated that testing is changing and will...
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DEWT 2 – Drinks, dinner, more drinks and lots and lots of talk (a.k.a. day 1)
I was very pleased to be part of the 2nd DEWT workshop. This Peer conference took place on October 5 and 6 at Hotel Bergse Bossen in Driebergen, the Netherlands. The Dutch Exploratory Workshop on...
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Seven Questions
This is the opening blog of a small series of posts in which I elaborate on a test approach heuristic using 7 questions that I have developed over the years. Thinking about testing As a tester I have...
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Seven Questions – Why do I test?
Reasons for testing The question why something is tested has kind of a schizophrenic nature to it. Its answer is either so obvious that the question itself is ignored or it is so cumbersome that...
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Seven Questions – What will I test?
In the previous post I addressed why you test. In this post I will address what you are going to test. In the sections below I will hand you a number of ideas. Some of them are well-known in main...
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YAGNI
Context At the time of this blog post my family and me are on holiday in Iceland. Since we are not that often in Iceland we, amongst visiting relatives and friends, use the time to look into...
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No user would do that
Still on Iceland Being in a foreign country gives you a chance to visit shops that you haven´t been before. And doing so has heightened my attention to curious software behavior. Today we went out for...
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Seven questions – What questions do I have?
The previous two questions helped you to find why testing is necessary, what information you need to answer the first question (business value) and which test ideas help you deliver meaningful and...
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A collection of quality characteristics
Following the earlier posts listing software testing and bug definitions this post has also a, very large, listing. This time it is a list of quality characteristics. Like the earlier posts this list...
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Test Levels! Really?!
Next in the series of software terminology lists is “Test Levels”. But there is something strange with test levels. Up until now almost every tester that I have worked with is familiar of the concept...
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Regression Testing
As a follow up in the testing definition series it was my intention to continue with covering Test Types. Initial investigation showed what I had already feared. Such a post would become a Herculean...
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Test Types – A
This sixth post in the series of software testing overviews introduces the first of some 80+ different test types. That number is completely arbitrary. While investigating test types I found over a...
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