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Elements of Excellent Testing

James Bach — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 01:44:13 +0000

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 James Bach, Jonathan Bach, and Michael Bolton.

https://www.satisfice.com/download/elements-of-excellent-testing

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Reframing Requirements Analysis

Mary Alton — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:28:40 +0000

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 830-1993 Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications includes a list of quality attributes for requirements: correct, complete, unambiguous, consistent, ranked for importance, verifiable, modifiable, and traceable. The specification is supposed to guide the engineering activities that follow. The so-called generally accepted practice, however, isn’t generally practiced.

https://www.satisfice.com/download/1115

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Test Framing

Mary Alton — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:16:09 +0000

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, narrate, and justify the story of our testing in a logical, coherent, and rapid way.

https://www.developsense.com/blog/2010/09/test-framing/

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