Mary Alton Back in the year 2000, a company hired me to help them develop a professional testing culture. As part of that process, I found a team of highly regarded testers and studied their approach to bug investigation. Part of what … Learn more
RST is a context-driven methodology. This means the our classes are not specifically about testing in an Agile, DevOps, Lean, Waterfall, or regulated context; nor does it incorporate any specific testing tool you might use to simulate users or support … Learn more
In Rapid Testing (and, we believe, in all worthwhile testing) learning about the product and finding problems that matter are central to the mission. In the role of a tester, I support the business and development team by finding and describing things I believe … Learn more
Bug reporting is central to testing. The bug report, whether oral or written, is the single most visible outcome of testing. And the quality of your reports is probably the single most important factor that determines your credibility as a … Learn more
REQUIREMENTS REVISITED In generally accepted software development practice, requirements analysis is supposed to happen before design, and design is supposed to happen before coding and testing. Some kind of document is supposed to come out of requirements analysis. The IEEE … Learn more
These are the appendices to the Rapid Software Testing Explored class. This is a downloadable pdf.
This video describes the general structure of the Rapid Software Testing methodology.
Test session reports are a part of session-based test management. This is a checklist for helping you make a good test session report.
To test is—among many other things—to construct, edit, narrate, and justify a story. A excellent, expert test report has at least three significant elements that weave around each other like a braid: a story about the product; a story about … Learn more