Reference Docs: These documents are practical guides for working testers.

The HTSM (v.6.3) is a set of guideword heuristics designed to help you think better about test strategy. It includes four focus areas: test techniques, project elements, product factors, and quality … [Read more...] about Heuristic Test Strategy Model

This is a concise description and guidewords for five kinds of testability: epistemic, value-related, project-related, subjective, and intrinsic. Version 2.8 … [Read more...] about Heuristics of Software Testability

These are the appendices to the Rapid Software Testing Explored class. We also use variations of this in the other RST classes. Version 5.6.2 … [Read more...] about RSTE Appendices

Reasons why dedicated testers are useful to have on a software development team. … [Read more...] about Why Testers?

Test session reports are a part of session-based test management. This is a checklist for helping you make a good test session report. … [Read more...] about SBTM Session Report Checklist

There are many ways to diagram the testing process, but this is my current favorite. This diagram is also an illustration of how test framing works. Test framing is the process of relating … [Read more...] about A Rapid Software Testing Framework

A concise list of the skills, dynamics, and work products of excellent testing. … [Read more...] about Elements of Excellent Testing

What I mean by a role is a task that is associated with a contract. In other words, it is a situation where someone has agreed to do something. This is a little more specific than the typical … [Read more...] about How to Think About Roles and Actors

This document lays out, in many dimensions, how RST methodology differs from and contradicts the type of testing advocated by the ISTQB, TMAP, and similar systems. In my opinion, which is informed by … [Read more...] about How RST is Different From “Factory-Style” Testing