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The Egg testing challenge, context and mission
Matt Heusser is describing his challenge to test various inanimate objects – An egg, a stapler, a salt shaker and a knife. Read it here, but be sure to come back for the rest of the problem. I’d now...
View ArticlePlanning to make use of learning – Incremental vs Iterative
During coffee with Agile-coach and all-round excellent guy Shane Clauson, in sympathy with yet another of my what’s-wrong-with-agile rants, he pointed me to this blog post from Jeff Patton: Don’t...
View ArticleThinking about Test Strategy – A mnemonic device
I’ve recently been on the move a little, and have had a lot of chances to work on test strategy. I generally have historical documents to work from, but decided I should try to come up with a mnemonic...
View ArticleTest Strategy Mnemonics
Based on some current work, I’m going to need to extend my test strategy mnemonic to include ‘Accountabilities’. That gives me a ton of options, such as ‘Gated Script Rats’, ‘Script a test drag’,...
View ArticleA reminder on what not do when you’re automating testing
Five years ago I wrote, somewhat flippantly, on automation failure, but apparently some people never noticed. It still seems relevant, so please go and read (or re-read) ‘Automate your way to...
View ArticleTools for thinking about context – Agile sliders reimagined
Philosophically, I’m aligned to the context-driven testing view of the world. Largely, this is influenced by a very early awareness of contextual factors to success in my first job, and the wild...
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How to write a test strategy
I’ve documented my overall approach to rapid, lightweight test strategy before but thought it might be helpful to post an example. If you haven’t read the original post above, see that first. This is...
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