Eusebiu blindu - testing seen through a puzzle

Testing is like solving puzzles

Puzzle "...In a basic puzzle, one is intended to puttogether pieces in a logical way in order to comeup with the desired solution..." -(wikipedia)Testing"investigating a product with the purpose ofgetting useful information that is relevant tostakeholders" "put together pieces" ~ "investigating"

Examples of "testing puzzles": Find a bug

Examples of "testing puzzles":Find the reproducing steps/patterns of a bug

Examples of "testing puzzles":Hack an application ( ex: upload a message/picture to a normally unauthorized part of a website)

Examples of "testing puzzles": Prove that all known expected behaviors of the application are met

Examples of "testing puzzles":Find the most efficient way to cover the application fromthe testing perspective based on time, priorities and risk

Puzzles Macro-puzzlesMicro-puzzles

Micro -puzzles

Find an input that is not a primenumber, but the application isvalidating it as being prime ~5 min

It looks like testing andIt looks like solving a puzzle

Puzzles:1)try to reproduce2)find the pattern

Patterns

Go to http://www.testalways.com/3Puzzle: List all the relationships that you can find between entered input and generated image

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Macro -puzzles

Multiple possible analogies for hidden image puzzle: bugs that were found for a defined area of a product

Multiple possible analogies for hidden image puzzle: bugs that were found for the whole project

Multiple possible analogies for hidden image puzzle: bugs that were found by testers relative to all the bugs and issues reported eventually (including developers, users, clients etc)

Puzzles Macro-puzzlesMicro-puzzles

Conclusions:

References:Concept:James Bach – http://satisfice.com – dice gameExercises:Markus Gärtner - http://www.testing-challenges.org/Environments:Ajay Balamurugadas –http://weekendtesting.com

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