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8.
HOW DID WE GET
HERE?
1958 - First software test team (Weinberg) - Project Mercury.
1968 - NATO report mentions Software Quality Assurance.
1968 - “Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs” - Edsger Dijkstra.
1976 - Software Reliability, Principles and Practices (Myers) published.
1979 - The Art of Software Testing (Myers) published.
1982 - Out of the Crisis (Deming)- “Quality must be defined in terms of customer
satisfaction”.
1988 - Exploratory testing introduced (Kaner).
1996 - Heuristic Test Strategy Model (Bach).
1999 - Context-Driven Testing (Bach a.o.) - 'The value of any practice depends on its
context'.
2001 - Agile Manifesto is published..
2002 - Test-Driven Development (Beck) - Test Driven Development: By Example.
2009 - Testing vs. Checking (Bolton).
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOFTWARE TESTING
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