Comments on: Three New Testing Heuristics

By: animesh

animesh — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:08:53 +0000

One more scenarios to add:

There are text boxes where on the search screen where only some characters are allowed. Enter that character and select them using Shift+Home. There are chances that they wont be selected and User will be getting error message as “*** character is not allowed”. I tried it and got in many cases.

By: meeta

meeta — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:18:15 +0000

to add 2 more scenarios to the list

1. do exactly the opposite – say you have a right handed screw and a left handed space to put it through….Murphy’s law ?

2.do something exactly different from what you are expected – say a screen has a name field and it expects you to press enter after you have made an entry but you keep shift+A pressed for more than a min ?

By: meeta

meeta — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:58:18 +0000

Very Interesting !!……. I can relate this to many activity Tom (to catch Jerry)and Jerry (to evade Tom’s traps) do !!

Can we add a few more to this list ?

[James' Reply: Sure, go ahead. Try to think of catchy labels for them. This helps bring them to mind when we need them.]

Regards
Meeta

By: Dave Christiansen

Dave Christiansen — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:46:13 +0000

Hi James,
I’m glad to finally have a term to the test execution style you call Galumphing. As soon as I read your description I thought – hey I do that a lot. Now that I’m aware of it and not just doing it instinctively I can make conscious decisions about when to use it.

It will also be helpful when I am explaining this approach to others – thanks!

Dave

[James' Reply: I didn't realize I did galumphing until David Gilbert, a developer, pointed it out to me when I was trying to figure out why I kept accidentally crashing his activity recording tool... I was overflowing his recording buffers with my clicking frenzy!]