Ash Winter - What is testing?
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This document discusses different perspectives on what testing is and provides the author's axioms about testing. The author believes that testing is a team-based activity where they help enable testing rather than doing most of the testing themselves. They view testing as a human, intellectual activity involving thinking, learning, sharing ideas. Complete testing is seen as impossible due to logical limitations and infinite possibilities, so balance and variation are important. Testing is considered a performance where the value is in applying it, not just thinking about it. Tools can assist testing but not replace it. Context is also important, as what works in one situation may not work in another.
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- 1. #AgileNorthants “If you don’t care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.” ~ Gerald Weinberg
- 2. Ash Winter Short stuff here: @northern_tester Long stuff here:
- 4. Tough crowd… • Does testing? • Identifies as a tester? • Doesn’t really think about it all that much? • Thinks you can ‘bake quality in?’ • Thinks testing is dead? • Thinks devops will replace everything?
- 5. In interviews I ask… • What is testing (to you)? • Terrifying answers • “Being nice”
- 6. • No paradigm == no legitimacy • No legitimacy == no value I do care… lots
- 7. OK, smarty-pants… •What is testing then? •Apart from “being nice”
- 8. What do you believe? • Rather than a technical definition… • These are my axioms about testing…
- 9. #1 Team Based Activity • I help enable my team to test • I don’t test that much • Quality Assistance || Quality Advocacy
- 10. #2 Testing is a human, intellectual activity •Thinking •Learning •Sharing •Talking •Listening
- 11. #3 Modelling • Products • Systems • Teams • Technologies • Testing == Information.
- 12. #4 Complete testing is impossible • Logically always pesky bugs • Infinity is a strength
- 13. #5 Balance & Variation
- 14. #6 Testing is a performance • By all means, think about it. • The value when it is in motion, do it!
- 15. #7 Tools assist testing, not replace • Automation is an hugely important tactic of testing • Build tools to observe and control
- 16. #8 Testability • Great development is concerned with testability • Great teams talk about it lots!
- 17. #n Context or ‘it depends’ • If the problem isn’t solved, then product doesn’t work. • Context driven activity. One size fits one.
- 18. What its not… • is another story… • But lets stay cheerful eh?
- 19. Questions or Beer? Duff Man says: “Yeah that's swell, Duff wholeheartedly supports asking questions. Now! Who wants a beer!"
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- NO QUESTIONS, HAVE A BEER.