Background:
In testing, an “oracle” is a principle or mechanism by which we recognize a problem. This contrasts with “coverage”, which has to do with getting a problem to occur. All tests cover a product in some way. All tests must include an oracle of some kind or else you would call it a tour rather […]
I forgot that many corporate spam filters don’t allow EXE downloads.
Here are two alternatives to get the stress testing movie:
ZIP file (1.1 meg)
Flash presentation (7 meg)
I’m experimenting with the use of BBTestAssistant to create little testing lessons. I’m starting to like BBTestAssistant quite a lot for recording my exploratory testing sessions.
Here is a six minute demonstration of one kind of stress testing that I call “instant stress testing.” This is one of the quick test heuristics I have discussed in […]
People ask me a lot of questions about ET. I want to be helpful in my answers. A problem I struggle with is that questions about ET often come with a lot of assumptions, and the first thing I have to do is to make the assumptions visible and try to clear away the ones […]
So, there I was at the Dutch Testing Day, last year. I was a featured speaker, talking about exploratory testing. ET is one of my favorite subjects. It is helpful and powerful, and yet by some strange quirk of history and collective delusion, our industry hasn’t yet embraced it.
They asked me to participate in a […]
I was watching Dr. Stuart Reid talk about model-based testing, some months ago. During the presentation, he complained that so few people used UML for model-making. Why don’t more people use UML, he asked the audience?
I suppose his question was rhetorical, but I couldn’t help myself. I called out “Because it’s clunky!”
“It’s better than nothing,” […]
Dear Reader,
I would like you to give up, henceforth, the idea of “best practice.” Thank you.
I want to stamp out “best practice” for several reasons:
There are no best practices. By this I mean there is no practice that is better than all other possible practices, regardless of the context. In other words, no matter what […]