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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Investigating Bugs: A Testing Skills Study

Mary Alton — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:30:26 +0000

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 I learned is that the method they told me they were using was not the method they were actually using. The true method was much better, but they didn’t know how to explain it.

https://www.satisfice.com/download/investigating-bugs-a-testing-skills-study

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Telling the Testing Story

Mary Alton — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 03:10:13 +0000

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

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Test Cases and Coverage

Mary Alton — Fri, 14 May 2021 18:37:31 +0000

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 people, reviewing project plans, studying designs or sketches. You may even have an opportunity to work with the product directly; with a previous version; with a mockup or prototype; or with a part of the product.

Without a good deal of that learning, you cannot know what test cases should describe or contain—so instead of the typical fine granularity of test cases, consider the broader notion of coverage areas.

https://www.developsense.com/blog/2018/06/test-cases-and-coverage/

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Video Highlights from RST Online Classes

Mary Alton — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 11:55:45 +0000

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 you might learn. For those who have taken the class, they can be helpful reminders of some of the important points.

Go to the RST YouTube Channel

Humans In The Way #2

Humans In The Way #1

We discuss AI-based writing, the dimensions of authorship, trying to ...

Live Testopsy with Jon and James Bach

Thinking Out of the Bachs #1

In this video we analyzed several memes/quips and re-worked them. Our ...

Question Hospital: Testing and AI #1

Question Hospital is an event where we take a question from a client, ...

Responding to a Critique of Taking Testing Seriously

Michael Bolton and James Bach respond to Oleksandr Bolzhelarskyi. ...

Michael Bolton - Why Take RST Classes?

"Now that there's a book — Taking Testing Seriously: The Rapid ...

How to Report AI-Assisted Work

James and Michael discuss their system for reporting on the status of ...

Technical Work is All About Learning - Conversations on Taking Testing Seriously

In this video, James Bach and Karen N. Johnson are discussing about ...

The Book is Out

So strange when an idea becomes a real thing.

What is Normal? - Conversations on Taking Testing Seriously

In this video, James Bach and Karen N. Johnson read from our soon to ...

On Magic Boxes and Magic - Conversations on Taking Testing Seriously

In this video, James Bach and Michael Bolton read from our soon to be ...

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