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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

Investigating Bugs: A Testing Skills Study

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

Categories Rapid Software Testing, Skills and Heuristics, Tester Skill, Testing Culture

Telling the Testing Story

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

Categories Language, Management, Rapid Software Testing, Reporting, Test Report, Tester Skill, Testing Story

Test Cases and Coverage

At the beginning of the project, you don’t yet know how to test it. To develop a relevant test strategy, you must learn the product. There may be many ways for you to learn about the product—by attending meetings, talking to … Learn more

Categories Coverage, Strategy, Test Coverage, Tester Skill

Video Highlights from RST Online Classes

RST Peer Advisor Marius Francu has created a YouTube playlist of insights from the online RST Explored and RST Applied classes. For those who haven’t yet taken a class, these offer a little taste of some of the lessons that … Learn more

Categories Exploratory Testing, For Newbies, Tester Skill, Video
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November 4, 2025
Graphic of Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid Software Testing Approach 1st Edition by James Bach (Author), Michael Bolton (Author) Published by Wiley.
Due in Stores November 4, 2025
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REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
  • A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing
  • A Rapid Testing Framework
  • A Ridiculously Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing (video)
  • Breaking the Test Case Addiction
  • Elements of Excellent Testing
  • Exploratory Testing
  • Exploratory Testing 3.0
  • Heuristic Test Strategy Model
  • How RST is Different From “Factory-Style” Testing
  • How to Evolve a Context-Driven Test Plan
  • Investigating Bugs: A Testing Skills Study
  • Is RST compatible with our context?
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  • Rapid Software Testing Explored with James Bach (EUROPE)
    • Jan 13, 2026 - Jan 16, 2026
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