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

Test the AI, Dario!

We comment on Dario Amodei's belated call to slow down AI development.

Responsible people have been asking for better testing continuously since LLMs crashed onto the scene. Is the CEO of ...Anthropic finally hearing us?Show More

Test the AI, Dario!

We comment on Dario Amodei's belated call to slow down AI development. ...

Quality Engineering #3

We now need to talk about the inward-facing aspect of QE. This is all ...

Testing AI: Beyond Test Cases

This is a talk I prepared for a Chinese testing conference. The main ...

Quality Engineering #2: What About AI?

How does the Quality Engineering Tetrad work with AI?

Unbearable Lightness of Model-Based Testing

An old but still totally relevant talk about the limitations of ...

What is Quality Engineering?

We look at the difference between engineering and "quality ...

Humans In The Way #4: Lazy Thinking

We look at the problem of Lazy critical thinking, which also relates ...

Live Astronomy w/Rob Bach

How to Think About Biases (For Testers)

Jon and James discuss ways of learning about biases and why that ...

Stories From My Time On The Microsoft AntiTrust Remedies Trial

For first time, James Bach speaks publicly of his experience as an ...

Humans In The Way #3

We look at the problem of AI generated analyses and consider the ...

Illustrating Pareto Principle in Automation in Testing

What I was showing Jon is a simple mathematical argument that it is ...

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Tester Skill Archives — Rapid Software Testing

Elements of Excellent Testing

Investigating Bugs: A Testing Skills Study

Telling the Testing Story

Test Cases and Coverage

Video Highlights from RST Online Classes

Test the AI, Dario!