Software testing - learning to walk again (expoQA22)
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The document discusses various aspects of software testing such as definitions of testing, the importance of documentation, planning, scope, technology, practice, complications that can arise, and the need for reflection and replanning. It provides resources on topics like the testing iceberg, cones of uncertainty, coping with deadlines, and learning through deliberate discovery. Key takeaways include that documentation must be reliable, planning is essential but plans are useless, and thinking about improving and replanning are important aspects of software testing.
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- 1. Software testing - learning to walk again Seb Rose Twitter: @sebrose Blog: https://cucumber.io/blog/ E-mail: seb.rose@smartbear.com
- 3. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com “a process of gathering informa ti on about [so ft ware] with the intent that the informa ti on could be used for some purpose” What is testing? Gerry Weinberg Perfect So ft ware and Other Illusions About Tes ti ng
- 17. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Big Sky International Wisp Super-Bivy Tent
- 39. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Cone of uncertainty http://www.agilenutshell.com/assets/de fi nitions/cone-of-uncertainty.png
- 40. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com https://leanpub.com/leprechauns Before quoting an “authority” or “well-known fact” in our fi eld, be sure to apply basic critical thinking. One formulation I like is by James Bach: “Huh? Really? So?” That is, Huh?, do I really understand the claim? Can I rephrase it in my own words? Really, is it in fact true? Can I locate the evidence behind the claim? And fi nally, So? or So what?, does anything important depend on the claim being true or not? Finally, remember that if “a picture is worth a thousand words”, a meaningless picture wastes the equivalent of two pages or ten minutes of speech! http://how-do-i-test.blogspot.fr/2011/08/huh-really-so.html
- 67. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com • Ignorance is multivariate • Discovery is non-linear and disjoint https://dannorth.net/2010/08/30/introducing-deliberate-discovery/ Learning is the constraint. “Ignorance is the single biggest impediment to throughput”
- 68. @sebrose seb.rose@smartbear.com Takeaways Documentation must be reliable Shiny tech tools are useful… but skills are essential Plans are useless. Planning is essential Stop trying to go faster. Think about IMPROVING! So is replanning
- 71. @sebrose