Industry Standardization Archives — Rapid Software Testing https://rapid-software-testing.com/category/industry-standardization/ A Context-Driven Methodology Thu, 13 May 2021 21:19:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://rapid-software-testing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-RST_on-Square-2-1-32x32.png Industry Standardization Archives — Rapid Software Testing https://rapid-software-testing.com/category/industry-standardization/ 32 32 Exploratory Testing 3.0 https://rapid-software-testing.com/exploratory-testing-3-0/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exploratory-testing-3-0 Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:11:13 +0000 https://rapid-software-testing.com/?p=3133 In the beginning, there was testing. No one distinguished between exploratory and scripted testing. Jerry Weinberg’s 1961 chapter about testing in his book, Computer Programming Fundamentals, depicted testing as inherently exploratory and expressed caution about formalizing it. He wrote, “It is, of course, ... Learn more

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]]> In the beginning, there was testing. No one distinguished between exploratory and scripted testing. Jerry Weinberg’s 1961 chapter about testing in his book, Computer Programming Fundamentals, depicted testing as inherently exploratory and expressed caution about formalizing it. He wrote, “It is, of course, difficult to have the machine check how well the program matches the intent of the programmer without giving a great deal of information about that intent. If we had some simple way of presenting that kind of information to the machine for checking, we might just as well have the machine do the coding. Let us not forget that complex logical operations occur through a combination of simple instructions executed by the computer and not by the computer logically deducing or inferring what is desired.”

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]]> How RST is Different From “Factory-Style” Testing https://rapid-software-testing.com/how-rst-is-different-from-factory-style-testing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-rst-is-different-from-factory-style-testing Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:17:34 +0000 https://rapid-software-testing.com/?p=3145 This document lays out, in many dimensions, how RST methodology differs from and contradicts the type of testing advocated by the ISTQB, TMAP, and similar systems. In my opinion, which is informed by decades of watching the industry, working in ... Learn more

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]]> This document lays out, in many dimensions, how RST methodology differs from and contradicts the type of testing advocated by the ISTQB, TMAP, and similar systems. In my opinion, which is informed by decades of watching the industry, working in three different testing consultancies, participation in industry standardization efforts, and many hours of debate with other speakers and writers in the field of software testing, is that the ISTQB and its ilk represent the interests of a small group of large consulting companies that want to encourage grossly inefficient and ineffective testing because that is their actual business model.

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