Here’s a narrative roadmap of many elements of RST. At the top are the premises underlying software development and why we test; below is the “activity vortex”, with the tester and heuristic at the eye of the hurricane.
In RST, we make a distinction between testing and checking. We distinguish between the two to keep humans at the centre of testing work. Tools can be enormously helpful to testers, but there’s more to testing than checking the build; … Learn more
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
These are the appendices to the Rapid Software Testing Explored class. This is a downloadable pdf.
A statement of the premises on which Rapid Software Testing—our classes and our methodology—are based. These are the premises of the Rapid Software Testing methodology. Everything in the methodology derives in some way from this foundation. These premises derive from our experience, study, … Learn more