Let’s say you take the leap and talk to management about technical debt in your codebase and the need to pay it down. One of two things can happen: you get a “Yes, go ahead and tackle this” or you get the dreaded “No, not right now”. This article is my advice for how to …
Why do you prefer a product even if it has equal functionality to a competitor?What is it that makes one product stand out amongst the other?Maybe you have had thoughts about what makes a product feel special?We all know that this happens in some way, but how do you test for the quality characteristic we …
What is Behavior Driven Development (BDD)? In software development, BDD refers to Behavior Driven Development, it is a software development approach. It is an Agile programming development procedure that supports joint effort among designers, QA and non-developers or marketing members in a product . It is written in shared languages and improves the communication between …
There are 10 laws that drive everything Peter knows about testing. It’s not always pretty (and it’s not always kind) but they are always true.I have opinions on testing, driven by these 10 laws. I guess that don’t know that these laws are truly “immutable,” but they’ve been true for the last 80 years or …
We recommend collecting test ideas continuously from a variety of information sources. Consider the following, and think about values, risks, opportunities; find shortcuts to cover what is important. 🟢 Product Capabilities. The first and obvious test ideas deal with what the product is supposed to do. A good start is requirements, examples and other specifications, …
A quality criterion is some requirement that defines what the product should be. By thinking about different kinds of criteria, you will be better able to plan tests that discover important problems fast. Each of the items on this list can be thought of as a potential risk area. For each item below, determine if …
Over time the definitions of software testing and the ideas behind it have changed.This post brings together an expanding collection of testing definitions in chronological order and thus provide an overview on changing views. Views that are based on the changes in computer and software development one would expect to be outdated but often still …
Introduction If you ask any software quality professional what they do, most will tell you (I should know, I’ve been working as a QA/QE/Test manager for the last 12 years) their job function is mostly centered around testing. It comes in various forms: manual testing, automated testing, exploratory testing, functional testing, performance testing, load testing, …
One of the questions I get very often as a quality coach is “how can we measure quality?” If I were to reply right off the bat, my answer would be “No clue!” as I find it very hard to quantify something as abstract and ever changing as quality. Nevertheless I think the premise of …
Or how programmers and testers can work together for a happy and fulfilling life. Why don’t we just automate all the testing? Is test coverage a useful metric? What does it mean to “shift testing left”? When and where should we be testing? How much is enough testing? Over the years I have discussed these …
