Irrational Expectations Put Upon Testers #1

February 13, 2010

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The Fantasy of Attending all Design and Feature Review Meetings
Most testers find themselves outnumbered by devs. In my case it’s about 10 to 1. (The preferred ratio is a tired discussion I’d like to avoid in this post.)
Instead, I would like to gripe about a problem I’ve noticed as I accumulate more projects [...]

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The Importance of Unimportant Follow-On Bugs

February 13, 2010

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Think of a bug…any bug. Call it BugA. Now try to think of other bugs that could be caused by BugA. Those other bugs are what I call “Follow-On Bugs”. Now forget about those other bugs. Instead, go find BugB.
I first heard Michael Hunter (AKA “Micahel”, “The Braidy [...]

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Test Case Reviews Can Be Harmful

February 13, 2010

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Many (if not most) test teams claim to perform test case reviews. The value seems obvious, right? Make sure the tester does not miss anything important. I think this is the conventional wisdom. On my team, the review is performed by a Stakeholder, BA, or Dev.
Valuable? Sure. [...]

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Are Women Better Testers than Men?

February 13, 2010

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After reading Tobias Mayer’s Test(osterone)-infected Developers, I noticed my test team has 3 men and 8 women, while my dev team has 30 men and 2 women. This is a small sample but I agree with Tobias that it is the norm.
Are she-testers better testers or just more interested in testing? [...]

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Bug Reports Are For Problems, Not Solutions

February 12, 2010

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An important bug got rejected by dev today. It was my fault.
I included an incorrect solution to the problem. Rather than describing the bug and calling it quits, I went further and described (what I believed to be) the right solution. The dev rejected it because my solution was [...]

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Risk Based Testing – Deferring the Right Bugs

February 12, 2010

White paper by QAInfotech.com

Does more testing make the software more stable?
It is a well known fact that even infinite amount of time and resources can not eliminate all the risks associated with releasing a product. Accepting the release readiness of the system would mean accepting a certain level of risk.
Over years computer scientists have come [...]

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Early Defect Detection

February 11, 2010

Article By: Grant Obermaier

They say that it is the early bird that catches the worm. The same is true in software testing.
The process starts with a requirement and from this point onwards, there is gradually more and more effort being applied to the creation or modification of an application. More people become involved and the [...]

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The Ellis Island Bug

February 11, 2010

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A couple of years ago, I developed a version of a well-known reasoning exercise. It’s a simple exercise, and I implemented it as a really simple computer program. I described it to James Bach, and suggested that we put it in our Rapid Software Testing class.
James was skeptical. He didn’t [...]

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A Use for Counting Bugs

February 11, 2010

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For the most part, proposing a metric comparing number of bugs found to number of bugs fixed will get you laughed at. After all, bugs are not alike, and a dozen teeny bugs will look far worse under a “bugs found/bugs fixed” metric than one bug that crashes the system and causes data [...]

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Testing and Management Parallels

February 11, 2010

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Rikard Edgren, Henrik Emilsson and Martin Jansson collaborate on blog called thoughts from the test eye. In a satirical post from this past summer called “Scripted vs Exploratory Testing from a Managerial Perspective“, Martin proposes that “From a managerial perspective without knowing too much about testing, your sole experience comes from the scripted [...]

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