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Elements of Excellent Testing

What skills and tactics are important in testing? Where you start in evaluating the quality of a tester’s work, or of a testing team? Here’s a concise list of the skills, dynamics, and work products of excellent testing, created by … Learn more

Categories Quality, Rapid Software Testing, Reporting, Requirements, Skills and Heuristics, Tester Skill, Testers Role

Reframing Requirements Analysis

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

Categories Requirements, Risk, Risk Analysis, Test Strategy

Test Framing

To test is to tell three parallel stories: a story of the product, a story of our testing, and a story of the quality of our testing. James and I believe that test framing is a key skill that helps us to compose, edit, … Learn more

Categories Learning, Oracles, Rapid Software Testing, Requirements, Risk, Test Framing
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Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid Software Testing Approach
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  • A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing
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  • How to Evolve a Context-Driven Test Plan
  • Investigating Bugs: A Testing Skills Study
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